School Trips to Malta

Valletta

Malta’s jewel and capital, filled with beautiful open squares and fascinating architecture, is a UNESCO World Heritage site. Malta’s ancient and diverse past is on full display in the capital, and the city was justly awarded the European City of Culture for 2018. 

Palace Square Valletta

The Palace Square is dominated by the Grand Master’s Palace and is centrally located within the capital city. This is a great, popular venue for live performances. The square is suitable for bands, choirs and orchestras, with plenty of space and seating facilities in the surrounding area.

Marsaxlokk Village

This traditional fishing village in South East Malta is a beautiful, picturesque setting for bands, choirs, and orchestras to perform.

Is-siggiewi Church

A place steeped in history, this imposing baroque church resides in a south-western Maltese village. Orchestras and choirs looking for a venue during a music tour of Malta will love the opportunity to perform here.

In-Naxxar Church

Music groups also have the opportunity to perform at the Church of the Nativity of Mary in Naxxar. The present church was built between 1616 and 1630.

Gozo

Gozo, the second-largest island of the Maltese archipelago, is an open history book. With ample evidence of stone-age settlers immigrating to the island for the first time in 5900 BC, the island is well known for its ancient ruins and represents a unique opportunity to learn about humanity at the dawn of civilisation.

The Malta Experience

The Malta Experience breaks down the long, complex history of Malta into a fun, engaging way for your group. This is an hour long visit situated in Valletta which is sure to leave your students in awe.

Water Park

Sometimes, a bit of fun is all that’s needed. The Splash and Fun Water Park offers a fantastic day out for the entire group. From the adventurous 120m long tube slide to the laid back lazy river, there is something on offer for everyone.

Concert organisation & tour planning service 

With NST, you’ll get your own dedicated music team who’ll work with you from start to finish. You’ll benefit from their unrivalled destination knowledge, and their experience gained from spending every day organising concerts for school groups. 

They’ll tailor-make your itinerary from scratch and take care of everything for you: 

• Matching the most appropriate concert venus to suit your group's ability 
• Pulling together a performance schedule and itinerary that runs smoothly
• Planning the right balance of concerts and visits every day with realistic timings
• Pre-arranging and pre-booking your visits, entrance tickets, passes and meals 

You’ll receive your final itinerary a full 4-weeks before you travel too.

Promoting your concerts

We’ll go the extra mile in promoting your concerts for you too. We’ll:

• Select venues that regularly attract good audiences, and we’ll schedule your concerts at the best times to maximise audience potential.
• Locate A-board posters outside your venue, distribute promotional posters and leaflets ahead of your performances, plus promote your concerts in the local press, ‘what’s on’ guides, social media, and on radio where possible.
• Invite local youth and cultural groups to your concert (where appropriate) and, where possible, we’ll organise joint concerts and festival participations to attract the largest possible audiences.

FREE music tour promotion pack 

We’ll support you and provide everything you need to advertise your music tour around school and to parents. Our free promotion pack consists of: 

• Parents’ letter & permission slip template for you to complete 
• A3 posters to promote your trip around school
• PowerPoint presentation templates which you can tailor to your own needs 
• Parents’ leaflets covering how NST manage safety, financial protection and details of our travel insurance
• Online parents’ video which showcases the benefits of taking a music trip

For selected destinations, we’ll provide a trip launch web page using video footage and imagery.  This web page is provided by a weblink and can be shared with pupils and parents in many ways. 

Risk assessment support including preview visits 

Risk assessment plays a vitally important part in the planning and organisation on any music tour. 

Our risk assessment guide aims to help you understand more about your obligations and how you can more effectively manage group safety on your next music tour and provide you with risk assessments for your trip. 

Planning first music trip

Organising your first tour can appear to be a daunting process. 

If you're planning your first school trip, our guide will help to take you through each step of the planning process, answering frequently asked questions and providing tips and support along the way. 

Our helpful guide covers the following: 

• Choosing your destination 
• Gaining approval from your Local Authority and/or your Head 
• Promoting your tour in school 
• Confirming your booking 
• Tailor-make your tour 
• Completing your risk assessments (including a sample risk assessment) 
• Quick reference timeline 
• Pre-tour checklist 

View our essential guide to a successful trip here.

Get live updates on your group's tour location

Locate My Trip uses GPS technology and is the easy, convenient way for your school to follow your location whilst on tour. Specifically designed to provide reassurance to both parents and teachers, NST will know where your group are 24/7. If your schedule needs to change, we’ll put plans in place to keep your tour on track. 

With Locate My Trip your group can also share photos and videos with the school and parents, via a secure link, to keep them updated on your experience whilst you’re away.

Watch our short Locate My Trip video here.

Your online school trip organiser - My Tour Manager

Save time and stay on track with your school trip admin with our online organiser - designed to help busy teachers like you. 

With My Tour Manager, you'll be able to download FREE resources and access trip paperwork online and in one place. Your personalised checklist details what you need to do and by when, plus you'll receive fortnightly reminders too. 

What's more, you can take all your trip documents on the go whilst on your tour with our app, My Tour Manager-On-the-Go

Find out more and watch out short My Tour Manager video here.

Free music resources

We've created a range of free music resources and educational posters to brighten up your classroom! 

Take a look at our downloadable posters here.

Brexit & your school trip

How will Brexit affect my school trip?

Following the end of the transition period there are several changes that will affect groups travelling with us to the EU.

For more information on these changes, visit our dedicated Brexit page here.

If you're travelling with NST and have any specific questions. please contact your Educational Travel Advisor.