Hyundai expands its National School Trips Week initiative

Research shows that with just a few months left until the end of the current academic year in the U.K., 27% of students are still yet to experience a trip away from the classroom. When it comes to booking trips, funding and staff shortages top the list as the most significant barriers. 

To tackle this and in an attempt to provide more children with an opportunity to go on these trips, Hyundai is boosting commitment to school trips through its Great British School Trip (GBST). This boost comes in the launch of National School Trips Week.

Hyundai is increasing its commitment to the Great British School Trip to  foster creative thinking amongst students in the U.K.

The firm has added an extra 225,000 school trip places to the GBST programme, supporting 60,000 children across the 2023/2024 academic year. This brings the total number of students supported in the first two years of this initiative to 90,000. 

Kicking off on 29 April 2024, National School Trips Week is set to host over 40 essential educational experiences, across the U.K. It is estimated that this week alone will support approximately 9,000 students. Various venues planned as part of the programme include English Heritage, PGL, Eureka!, and the Royal Air Force Museum London.

Hyundai states that it hopes the experiences from this week will play a part in unlocking creativity, confidence, and new skills which may be difficult to tap into in a classroom environment. Additional research conducted by Hyundai shows that 97% of teachers believe that school trips assist in fostering creativity, however, 78% state that it is harder to organise a trip with creativity as the main focus.

Hyundai is supporting the programme was to help teachers foster greater creativity amongst students in the U.K.

As a company that has design, innovation, and technology at the core of its business, Hyundai states that creativity is something that it truly values. It follows by stating that through focusing on trips that draw on its Imagination and Curiosity pillar, it hopes that to help teachers to plug the 'creativity gap'. 

One of the schools that benefited from National School Trips Week, Long Mead Community Primary School from Tonbridge, was presented with the opportunity to attend the Turner Contemporary in Margate. This experience was also the first time some of the children has ever been to a gallery and even the seaside.

With this increased commitment, Hyundai will continue to offer bursaries to help schools most in need to fund their trips. This funding covers booking fees and travel costs.