Secondary School Trips

Appreciate our oceans and the animals that call it their home with your Secondary School trip!

New tour for 2024/2025 term! – We are excited to announce a new educational tour for your upcoming school trip, focusing on plants and the ecosystems in which fish make their home. Available from November 2024. Scroll down to find out more about Plants and Fish.

Looking for a quality secondary school trip in Bristol? With over 40 naturally-themed displays and thousands of aquatic creatures across geographical zones, our educational tours offer a fun and inspirational day out for your class.

We welcome thousands of school visitors every year for a fun, educational visit, whatever the weather!

With your reduced admission rate you will encounter a diverse range of life under the sea from native UK species, tropical reef fish and some larger-than-life characters!

At a small additional charge, our National Curriculum-led educational package boasts a unique insight into our oceans with industry knowledge, engaging sessions, and an exclusive fish feeding experience!

Please note: bookings with more than 30 students will be split into two groups, and tours require a 20 minute interval between start times. e.g. A group of 50 students will be split into 2 groups of 25, with the first group’s tour beginning at 10:20, the second group’s tour beginning at 10:40.

• Save our Seas (Ideal for Key Stage 3 – Key Stage 4)

Educational Package Detail

Save our Seas
Save our Seas is a guided tour aiming to encourage children to connect to the natural world by observing aquatic creatures up close. The tour includes discussion of positive and negative human impacts on the aquatic environment including marine pollution and the prevalent issue of plastics to coral bleaching and global warming.
The tour also includes an exclusive fish feeding experience to encourage the children to connect to  the natural world.

New tour for term 2024/2025! – Available from November.

Plants and Fish

As well as learning about our fantastic fish, in this guided tour your students will branch out (pun slightly intended) into the world of plant life and fish habitats.

Your class can explore our Urban Jungle as our tour guides dive into the subject of rainforests, photosynthesis, plant anatomy and how fish live, grow, and interact with their environment. This experience allows yours students to be surrounded by different ecosystems as they learn about them, including: native UK waters, the ocean floor, the amazon river and colourful coral reefs.

We are very proud to be the only aquarium in the UK with a giant botanical house, which contains our Rocky Shores and Amazing Amazon exhibits. Here you can find our Bay of Rays and Amazon River tanks as well as a jungle of fascinating flora from coffee trees and pineapple plants to prehistoric ferns and a gigantic monstera which engulfs our Amazonian waterfall.

The tour includes an exclusive fish feeding experience and a “Rainforest Detective” workshop on “Plant Power” to encourage the children to connect with the natural world.

This tour is aimed at Key Stage 2 age students and will be available for dates from November 1^st onwards.

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Payment for School Visits

Please note, payment for school and club visits must be made in full by the day of the visit by cash, credit/debit card or cheque. We do not invoice schools or clubs for payment after a visit has taken place.

Caution! Our floor surfaces change throughout the aquarium and for safety reasons we advise visitors not to wear stiletto heels during a visit.

Additional Information

We offer free pre-visits for up to two teachers per booking.

We will give your group a space to enjoy lunch in our foyer for a set time and you’re welcome to go back around the aquarium in the afternoon at your own leisure.