Why Choose Mercat Tours International for School Tours?

Mercat Tours International has carefully crafted both its World War I and World War II battlefield experiences to ensure your students achieve the maximum from their tour. From site-to-site and day-by-day your guide builds the story so that your group comes to understand and remember the events which led to such loss of life.

Your guide takes full responsibility for all the teaching on the tour. Using his/her in-depth command of subject and field knowledge, the guide deploys a range of teaching techniques and an array of resources to immerse your students in the period.

Nightly, students are encouraged to evaluate the day, recording their responses to and feelings about what they have witnessed. Students regard this element of the battlefield experience as an invaluable opportunity to create their own personal memento. These recordings also provide very useful aids for forthcoming examinations.

From beginning to end Mercat Tours International uses every possible opportunity to develop students’ knowledge and understanding. The field trip is demanding, but students do have free time each day. And it is our experience that young people respond with great dignity and maturity to what is asked of them as their pilgrimage unfolds.

Both battlefields experiences are appropriate for students from upper primary to late secondary. Your guide is skilled at tailoring content, concepts and language, to meet the needs of students.

Customisation

Within the overall framework of the tour every attempt is made to locate and to visit the graves of relatives of students or staff.

The experience can be adapted to suit the time available to your school. It can also be extended by additional days, to include such sites as Neuve Chappelle, Loos, Toc H or Verdun.

Self-Guided Tours

If you wish to lead the tour yourself rather than use one of our guides, let Mercat Tours International use its years of experience to organise the itinerary, accommodation, transport and museum visits to meet your requirements.