Partners
Girls' Schools Association
Encouraging high standards of education for girls and promoting the benefits of being taught in a largely girls-only environment, their aim is to inform and influence national educational debate and provide their members and staff with professional development courses, conferences, advice and opportunities to debate and share best practice.
Masterclass are very pleased to have worked in close partnership with the GSA since 2013, hosting the association’s annual netball tournament for its Year 8 & 9 members at the picturesque Condover Hall in Shrewsbury.
Canterbury
We’re proud to partner with Canterbury as our official kit sponsor.
As part of our tour packages, students receive a Canterbury kit – a cherished memento of a fantastic team experience.
Independent Coaching Education
Independent Coach Education provides a range of high-quality services to schools to enable them to enhance and develop the quality of their sports provision.
This includes cutting-edge training of coaches and referees at all levels, and in all sports played in schools. Additionally, there are recruitment and advisory services and a range of other products including pre-season training camps, holiday coaching courses, coaching resources and celebrity visits to schools.
MasterClass are proud to partner with such a forward-thinking organisation and are excited to be involved with their coach education programme.
Edwin Doran
Established in 1974, Edwin Doran Sports Tours is entrenched in school sports heritage, having taken more school sports teams than any other tour operator – over 15000 at the last count on tailor-made sports tours across the world.
Accreditations
ATOL
All our MasterClass sports tours are ATOL-protected (Air Travel Organisers' Licencing), ensuring good standards of practice and bringing customers financial protection against unforeseen events.
ABTA
We are also a member of the Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA), which means you have the benefit of ABTA’s assistance and Code of Conduct. All the package and Flight-Plus holidays we sell are covered by a scheme protecting your money if the supplier fails. Other services such as hotels or flights on their own may not be protected and you should ask us what protection is available.
School Travel Forum
MasterClass is a fully assured member of the School Travel Forum (STF), which promotes good practice and safety in school travel.
As members, we adhere to a stringent Code of Practice and Safety Management Standards, which meet with Department for Education guidelines and are externally verified every year by independent Health and Safety professionals. Teachers booking their sports tours through MasterClass can therefore be assured that we:
- Understand and facilitate the needs of educational travel
- Manage safety effectively
- Offer fair terms & conditions and the best financial security
- Are fully inspected every year by independent experts
View our School Travel Forum certificate
Learning Outside the Classroom
MasterClass Sports Tours is an accredited Learning Outside the Classroom (LOtC) Quality Badge holder, meaning we have pledged to engage in an ongoing process to sustain high-quality learning outside the classroom and have demonstrated that we:
- assist our teachers to plan the learning experience effectively
- provide accurate information about our tours
- provide activities, experience or resources which meet learner needs
- review your experience and act upon feedback
- have a safety management process in place to manage risk effectively
View our LOtC Quality Badge certificate awarded to us by the Council for Learning Outside the Classroom