Planning resources
The information below should provide you with everything you need to know when booking your educational visit with us. We hope that this page will answer any questions that you have ahead of your visit to the aquarium.
Risk assessment
You will need to complete your own risk assessment for your visit to SEA LIFE Brighton. Our supporting risk assessment guide identifies hazards and provides information on control measures. To prepare supervising adults, read this framework.
Opening hours
The aquarium opening times vary through the year, we recommend checking our opening and closing times before visiting. *Please note our education rates are not available on weekends and on specific dates during the 2024/2025 academic year.
Planning tickets
As part of your school visit booking, you can opt to receive two teacher planning tickets. These are strictly for teachers of the school to conduct their pre-visit assessments. Once you have submitted your booking form, you will receive your teacher planning tickets in a separate email. You can redeem your teacher planning tickets when taking your booking reference number and School ID to the admissions team at SEA LIFE Brighton.
Teaching Resources
Dive deep into the world of underwater discovery. Explore the conservation classroom for amazing resources to inspire your students to love the ocean even more, both before and after your visit.
FAQs
Find out answers to our most asked questions to help you with planning your visit
Facilities
There are separate male, female, baby change, and accessible toilets located at the front of the attraction,. Find out more about our facilities on our help centre.
Save Our Seas: The Rangers Challenge
Discover our new onsite learning experience! Our 'Save Our Seas: The Rangers Challenge' activity pack is packed with exciting tasks for your students to complete during their educational visit at SEA LIFE Brighton.
Workshops & Activities
Drawing on our core principles to offer students the feeling of connectivity and empathy for our world's oceans, explore our habitat and adaptation and conservation workshops for KS1 and KS2.
Post-Visit Lesson Plan Ideas
Explore more from the classroom with our free curriculum-linked post visit lesson plans...Dive deep into a ocean of underwater knowledge in the Conservation Classroom.
