Excursions Terms and Conditions

For any questions or enquiries, please contact our Bookings Team via email or call 9215 0740.

Need to Know

Visits to Scitech are GST free. Scitech can accept payment on the day of your visit, or we can send out an invoice after your visit. Please fill out the ‘Scitech Signatory Form for Invoicing’ provided with your booking confirmation and hand it to a Scitech staff member on arrival.

A minimum charge equivalent to 15 students is applicable for all bookings, except regional and education support groups.

Pre-paid bookings will not be refunded. Scitech will not be able to refund you if there are non-attendees.

While Scitech presenters will run the Program with the students, the duty of care remains the responsibility of school staff.

All bookings require a minimum of two (2) supervising adults.

Younger siblings are discouraged from attending with supervising adults. If they are required to attend with an adult, general public pricing applies.

Scitech encourages schools to bring as many supervisors as they feel necessary on an excursion to Scitech. All supervising adults are free of charge. To help students maximise their Scitech experience, we recommend the following supervision ratio:

1:3 – Kindy to Pre-Primary

1:4 – Year 1 to 4

1:6 – Year 3-4

1:8 – Year 5-6

1:10 – Year 7

1:15 – High School

Several different schools can participate in an excursion at Scitech on the same day. Please ensure that you select a suitable method for identifying your students. Wearing school uniforms, name tags, badges, coloured tops or hats, wrist bands, or lanyards helps supervising parents, and Scitech staff identify excursion participants quickly.

Leaders should also wear an identifying badge so that lost children can be quickly reunited with their group and always stay with them.

Please allow fifteen minutes before your planetarium show as usher time as outlined in your confirmation email. If you are late this may result in your students missing out on their booked show. If you need to leave during the show, re-entry into the planetarium is not possible.

Children under 4 are not permitted in the planetarium.

Please ensure all phones, smartwatches, and devices that may light up are turned off during the show.

No food or drink is permitted in the planetarium.

Group discounts apply to groups of 20 or more paying people.

No bookings during July school holidays: bookings are available every school holiday break but not offered during July school holidays. Groups may still visit during this time by pre-purchasing tickets online or at the door. No discounts are offered.

Booked groups will have 2-hour access to the centre.

Lunches cannot be consumed at Scitech due to space restrictions during school holidays. We suggest groups have lunch at nearby Harold Boas Gardens on Wellington Street.

Good to Know

Please have your students group at the base of the stairs to Scitech and advise our staff of your arrival. A Scitech staff member will be assigned to greet your group, go over your schedule for the day and sort out payment and final numbers.

If your school has been delayed and will arrive late, please contact Scitech on 9215 0740. The Scitech Duty Manager will do their best to reschedule your programs, but this may not always be possible due to other groups.

Bus parking is available on the Sutherland Street side of the City West complex. Students should be dropped off at the roundabout at the front of Scitech to disembark safely before entering Scitech. A ticket will need to be purchased from the City of Perth ticket machines and displayed on the bus’s dashboard. Download the EasyPark app to book your ticket online.

Morning tea or lunch breaks must be arranged before your visit with the Bookings Team and allocated as the word ‘break’ on your confirmation letter. Where possible, please allow only one break per day at Scitech as areas are strictly limited and a shared resource for all schools visiting. We will store your lunch tubs for you until your allocated break time.

There are vending machines for snacks and drinks in the ‘City Views’ area of Scitech. There are also cafés located in the City West centre, and Water Town is only a 5-minute walk away from City West. If you wish to have recess or lunch off-site, Harold Boas Gardens is a 2-minute walk across the railway line on Wellington Street.

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