More Than Tourists – Turing Scheme 2025

We are delighted to announce that, for the fourth year running, Matrix Academy Trust has had another successful Turing bid.

The Turing Scheme is the UK government’s programme to provide funding for international opportunities in education and training across the world. It supports Global Britain by providing an opportunity for UK organisations from the higher education, further education, vocational education and training and schools sectors to offer young people life-changing experiences.

This year, pupils in Year 10 from across Matrix schools will be exploring ancient history in Athens, Greece. Year 12 will be exploring the amazing culture of Morocco. We are also delighted to announce that for the first time, Bloxwich Academy Primary pupils in Year 6 will be travelling to France.

We have named our 2024-25 Turing project ‘More than tourists’ because we are committed to promoting an international outlook with our pupils to help shape them into global citizens. For our young people to be successful, we need to do whatever we can to broaden their horizons – and one way of doing this is to take them beyond simply visiting a country. Our ‘More than tourists’ visits will see us making contact with teenagers of a similar age to our pupils in our host countries. We will be making sure the pupils who are selected to go on these visits will be those that will benefit most from them.

Find out more about the Turing scheme here: https://www.turing-scheme.org.uk