Taking classroom curriculum outside has long been known to enrich a student's learning experience, but to truly capture a child’s curiosity and bestow deep and meaningful knowledge, travel has the remarkable ability to both inspire and educate.
Black Tomato strive to curate extraordinary experiences that foster cultural understanding, but this new series will specifically focus on harnessing education through travel as a force for personal enrichment and future good. Hands-on modules will bring important subject matters to life, spanning social studies, with an insightful history experience on women's narratives in Israel, to the sciences, working with conservationists on critical rhino notching efforts in Kenya.
“We’ve seen a significant surge in demand from our substantial family market in both the UK and US, seeking as a top priority to further their older school-aged children’s personal and academic development. ‘Field Trip’ is aimed at meeting their needs; whether to support subject matters for college and inspire potential future careers, or more simply spark joy from learning and to contextualize core and emerging subjects - but not in a conventional way. Far beyond the blackboard, being able to transport children outside of the classroom and away from their screens, to build their skills and interests in situ, has been incredibly gratifying, especially as a father myself. It feels like a privilege to know that we can help to shape experiences, expand knowledge and develop dreams for the next generation of entrepreneurs, innovators, leaders, policy makers and activists. We believe these trips will not only provide an engaging, experiential platform for education, but also inspire a profound appreciation for travel to be insightful and sustainable.” - Tom Marchant, co-founder, Black Tomato
Unlike traditional solely educational trips typically lasting for a couple of weeks, the concept is for these ‘in the field’ lessons to act as educational hits, which can be incorporated ad hoc into existing or newly created itineraries. Fully bespoke and scalable, experiences can be dialled-up or dialled-down based on each client’s wishes, ranging from half-day to multi-day programming. With easily integrated options for clients and their children to explore their favourite subjects in more depth, or to discover newly introduced disciplines, the ambition is to encourage exposure to careers they may be curious about or might not otherwise have considered before.
Centred around children’s (age 12+) educational topics, lessons envelop archaeology to anthropology and engineering to economics, with sustainability and generating positive social impact at the heart, as a consistent theme throughout each syllabus area.
Field Trip will build on Black Tomato’s existing suite of transformational experiences, which began with boundary pushing,
Get Lost, and then most recently groundbreakingly beneficial,
Bring it Back. Comprising eight educational experiences covering eight different disciplines, Field Trip features a total of 64 unique interactions.
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