The Oceanarium
The Oceanarium, Bournemouth
Ongoing
Suitable for ages 3 - 16
Student tickets from just £6.49
Kids can learn more about fascinating creatures above and below the waves!
Learn about how to save the planet!
Come face to face with your favourite creatures!
Prices
They offer the following free adult ratios: Pre School (3-5 yrs): 1:3 Primary School (5-11 yrs): 1:5 Secondary School (12-15 yrs): 1:10 Additional adults, they charge a discounted entry price of £11.99. Also offer a free carer should any of the children require extra support (proof is required). Schools must book at least 2 weeks in advance to receive these discounted rates. Please note the bookings co-ordinator works office hours. If you need to cancel your booking, please provide them with as much notice as possible (at least 48 hours). To make your school’s visit more manageable, they suggest keeping groups to a maximum of 20, with staggered entry into the Oceanarium of at least 20 minutes and keeping to your allotted arrival times. To ease crowding in their admissions area, please wait outside for all you school to arrive and enter through admissions at the allocated time. Schools must be supervised at all times by the accompanying teachers/adults at the relevant child/teacher ratio. Any visitor found to be constantly disruptive or inconsiderate to other visitors will be asked to leave. The under cover lunch area for PLUS option visits is only available after 12.30 pm due to Penguin Feed taking place in the area before this time. They accept payment by invoice or payment by card/cash on arrival. This will be agreed during the booking process. The exclusive get 3 tickets for the price of 2 offer only applies to groups of 10 or more. Discount only applies to primary and secondary schools.
Key Info
Oceanarium
Bournemouth BH2 5AA
Up to two hours
Open from 10 am
Open 364 days of the year (excluding Christmas Day)
School visits are available from 10:30 am onwards
About
Bring learning to life and inspire your pupils in an award winning educational and fun school trip!
The Oceanarium welcomes school groups of all ages, abilities and sizes. With twelve spectacular naturally themed environments set across two floors, your class will engage in a global journey through the waters of the world.
With a huge variety of incredible wildlife representing the vast biodiversity on Earth, there are 1000’s of amazing creatures waiting to be encountered! From otters to penguins, turtles to jellyfish and fascinating sharks and stingrays, the habitats, adaptations and importance of these awe inspiring creatures are here to be discovered.
We are proud that we won the Best Educational Day Out in the South West for 2019. Over 25,000 genuine families voted for their favourite attractions which made it very competitive and exciting. It is rewarding to know that families and schools are pleased with the educational experience delivered by the Ocenarium and highly trained staff, and more importantly, that we are engaging with them in areas of conservation, education and influencing environmentally friendly behaviour in future generations.
“My class had a lovely visit to the Bournemouth Oceanarium yesterday. Your staff were very friendly and helpful and the talk for the children was fantastic – the staff member who took it really got the children involved and even learnt their names. We all had a really successful field-trip and the children learnt so much.”
“Emily gave us our interactive session and this was just brilliant! The shark bone and turtle shell was all the children talked about on their way round and all they have spoken about today. Emily was friendly and spoke to the children in a lovely tone and really engaged the children when talking to them.
I’m really pleased I booked the Oceanarium for the trip and would recommend it to anyone and will definitely come back again in years to come.Thank you so much for an amazing day.”
“Went on a school trip with our reception class. It was brilliant.”
Fancy a chat?
We’re here to help!
Send us an email or give us a call if you have any questions or would like more information.
hello@theschooltrip.co.uk
Or Call
020 8064 0974
Prices are correct at the time of publication. All costs, unless otherwise specified, include VAT.
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