Types of School Trips

A trip can only be described as a 'school' trip if it has a clearly defined purpose, meaning a topic that should be covered during field activities; simply organizing an outing by the school is not enough.

Based on the purpose of organizing school trips, we categorize them into:

1. Lesson Trips (Field Lessons) 

This term refers to activities organized outside the school building, involving short outings to nearby areas, such as a neighboring park or the school playground. These trips usually last 1 or 2 lesson periods. During such activities, the teacher covers a specific topic but does not rely solely on textbooks and workbooks. For example, a nature lesson organized outdoors serves to observe trees, their leaves, and bark. Contact with nature helps students better remember the content being taught.

2. Program-Based Trips – Subject-Specific or Integrated 

These trips cater to the needs arising from the curriculum. They are organized within lesson time, although they may also partially use the free time of students and teachers. The main aim of such trips is to stimulate students' interests, expand their knowledge of a particular subject, and enhance their skills in describing things, phenomena, or objects, as well as forming evaluations and opinions based on their own observations.

3. Sightseeing Trips

These are full-day or multi-day trips that can take place on days off from school. Their purpose is to learn about a particular country, its traditions, history, monuments, or culture, as well as to develop students' individual interests in this area. During these trips, children have the opportunity to combine acquired knowledge with practice, experience, observe, and form their opinions and judgments. Undoubtedly, they also promote active outdoor leisure.

4.  Tourist and Sightseeing Trips

These are one-day or multi-day trips primarily aimed at hiking, recreation, and physical activity. They do not require special skills from students but promote active leisure and the development of positive habits. The goals of tourist and sightseeing trips include broadening the knowledge acquired during lessons, fostering sensitivity to the surrounding world, nature, and people, building pro-ecological attitudes, promoting a healthy lifestyle, and learning teamwork.