Educational visits provide valuable off-site learning enhancement to the core curriculum, enabling pupils to achieve a fuller understanding of the world around them through direct experience. Thorough planning and preparation not only ensures their success, but provides a robust framework to safeguarding all those, children and young people, teachers, staff and volunteers, who participate.
This course is designed for staff in schools and academies to gain knowledge of the key elements needed to make educational visits safe and successful.
Pricing and how to buy
Cost is calculated according to the number of staff you wish to train.
Please enter the number of users required and click on 'Calculate price'.
Time to complete course:
Approximately 1 hour
CPD points: 1
- Access anywhere 24/7/365
- 3D animation, video & voiceover
- Course notes
- Training for individuals & groups
- Includes support for all staff
- Tracked for compliance
- Downloadable CPD certificate
Compliance & CPD Certificate
With content produced by our subject specialists and external accreditation by the CPD Certification Service, you can be confident that all your staff are trained to the very latest best practice standards and compliant with statutory requirements on inspection.
All CPD certificates attained are stored in your admin dashboard and fully accessible when you need them.
Who should complete this training
Our training is applicable to the following educational settings: Primary Schools, Primary Academies, Secondary Schools, Secondary Academies, Private Nurseries, Maintained Nurseries, Public Schools, Free Schools, Pupil Referral Units, and SEND Schools.
To fulfil the latest HM Government statutory guidance, training is advised for the following roles:
- Our training is applicable to the following educational settings: Primary Schools
- Primary Academies
- Secondary Schools
- Secondary Academies
- Private Nurseries
- Maintained Nurseries
- Public Schools
- Free Schools
- Pupil Referral Units
- SEND Schools To fulfil the latest HM Government statutory guidance and Ofsted Inspection Framework requirements, training is advised for the following roles: All existing staff - Teachers, LSAs, HLTAs, TAs, Support Staff
- All new recruits in roles named above as part of the induction process
- Chair of governors / trustees
Course Material Preview
All our course content is authored by our safeguarding subject specialists and tailored to meet statutory and non-statutory guidance.
Course participation is maximised through our use of stunning 3D animation, providing an engaging experience for the learner.
What is covered in this course
- Parental consent
- Roles & responsibilities of: Leadership & management, The Visit Leader, Other staff and adults involved in an off-site visit, Children's responsibilities, Parents/Guardians
- Risk Assessment
- Using outside organisations
- Exploratory Visit
- Contingency planning: Protocols to manage the visit, Protocols to manage incidents
- Supervision
- First Aid
- Photography
- Transport
- Residential Visits
- Trips abroad
- Preparing the children
- Supporting vulnerable children - SEN and medical needs
- Communicating with parents/guardians
- Learning from evaluation
What's your training style?
Staff can train individually by accessing their own training account or collectively as part of a group using Group Training Mode at INSET. Both of these options are included in our platform.
| Benefits | Individual Training | Group Training |
|---|---|---|
| Certificates awarded to staff | ||
| Staff can complete training in their own time on their own device | ||
| Staff can complete training as a group at INSET |
How does it work?
The Admin dashboard
https://admin.ssslearning.co.uk
Our system requires no complicated setup. From the Admin Dashboard simply copy and send an invitation email to your staff with the login details for your school or academy. Once your staff commence training, all progress, results and CPD certificates are presented in the Admin Dashboard as evidence of training.
The Training site
https://training.ssslearning.co.uk
Staff complete a course individually via any PC, Mac, smartphone or tablet or as part of a group at INSET. Each course is made up of an engaging multimedia presentation created using 3D animation, comprehensive course notes and a fully tracked multiple-choice assessment. On completion, staff can view and print their CPD accredited certificate.
All courses are kept up-to-date with any changes in legislation or policy ensuring practice in your school or academy is compliant with current requirements.
Support for you and your staff
We are very proud of our customer service standards which are unrivalled, with full support for your staff, if needed, 7 days a week 8am until 10pm.
We have a 5 star LiveChat rating and always respond to support emails within minutes.
