English Literature - UK

14 Day Student Education Tour

Tour Code: SS-EL-UK

Students gathered on tour getting a first hand look into famous literature in the making

United Kingdom - English group tour map flight path travel route

This tour takes students on an exploration of the rich and diverse literary traditions of the UK – from Shakespearean classics, the Romanticism of Wordsworth and Keats, Dickens’ and Gaskell’s insights into Victorian society, to the intellectualism of the Bloomsbury set.

Students come away with a greater understanding of the landscapes, settings and events that writers have taken as their context and inspiration.

Students participating in a Shakespeare workshop in Stratford with costumes, learning dramatic expression

Stratford - Shakespeare's birthplace building home student tour

Statue of Virginia Wolf - contextual study of literature

School tour group engaging with a lecture inside Keats House

High school tour group gathered on the lwan outside Keats house

Student group gathered outside the Globe Theatre ready to see a love performance

Aerial photograph of Bath, a place rich in Literature history

Dove Cottage and gardens on the edge of Grasmere in the Lake District of England home of poet William Wordsworth

Swan Theatre Stratford RSC, people watching a live theatre show

Warner Bros London Harry Potter behind the scenes film production tour

Jane Austen historic image as a young woman

Itinerary Suggestion

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Learning Objectives

Academic knowledge and critical-thinking skills
Immersive learning in English Literature
Classroom Connection to the real world
Curriculum-linked - HSC, IB, VCE & QCE
100+ hours of academic and cultural activities

Cultivating Young Pioneers

Academic acumen + engagement
Hands-on skill development + creative thinking
Personal growth + initiative
Cultural understanding + global mindset

Day 1-2

Depart Australia ⤑ Arrive in Manchester

Day 3

Manchester

A creative writing workshop and study of Gaskell’s depiction of gender, class and industrialisation in North and South.

Day 4

Cumbria – Lake District

Tour Dove Cottage and explore the Lake District landscapes inspiring Wordsworth. Visit the Parsonage Museum & wild moorlands depicted by the Brontes.

Day 5

Stratford-upon-Avon

Visit Shakespeare’s House, tour ‘behind the scenes’ at the Swan Theatre and attend an evening performance by the RSC.

Day 6-7

Bath & Bridgewater

Explore Bath and the Georgian streetscapes and sites synonymous with Jane Austen’s critique of class and manners. Close by, visit Nether Stowey Cottage where ST Coleridge wrote some of his finest Romantic poetry.

Day 8-12

London

Explore a truly global city - from a Shakespearean workshop to immersion in the writings of Dickens, Keats, Bloomsbury set, Orwell & Donne, intensive screenwriting workshop & visit to Warner Bros & Sherlock Holmes Museum. Performances at The Globe & West End musical.

Day 13-14