Reply to: School Trips

[FatLazyContractor]

We had trips to Edinburgh Castle and Zoo as well as dogging up Arthur's Seat! (Oooer missus!)
Other than that we had various trips on the Waverley Paddle Steamer to erotic destinations like Rotherham.
Luxury!!

FTFY

[shaunbhoy]

School trip in Primary was 2/- to some place down the coast to play on the beach and get sick on ice cream. That's ten pence in new money.

Only secondary school trip was organised by our geography teacher and the best school day out ever. Climbed a hill, visited a hydro dam, discovered some amazing tucked away places with waterfalls and learned about the geology of the areas we visited - free.

We had trips to Edinburgh Castle and Zoo as well as trogging up Arthur's Seat! (Oooer missus!)
Other than that we had various trips on the Waverley Paddle Steamer to exotic destinations like Rothesay.
Luxury!!

[mudskipper]

Well it seems the claims of parents being pressurised into paying for something they can't afford were bollocks then.

[SimonMac]

Its been canned

Horsforth School cancels £1,650 Barbados sports trip - BBC News

[Cliphead]

School trip in Primary was 2/- to some place down the coast to play on the beach and get sick on ice cream. That's ten pence in new money.

Only secondary school trip was organised by our geography teacher and the best school day out ever. Climbed a hill, visited a hydro dam, discovered some amazing tucked away places with waterfalls and learned about the geology of the areas we visited - free.

[Flashman]

Loads of London kids going on all expenses paid trips to Syria at the moment. No doubt quite an educational experience....

[SimonMac]

Did they do the same with literacy?

I thought wore off was the past tense of warn off?

But then again anyone noes by now picking up me on grammer or spelling mistakes is like shoting fish in a barrel

[tractor]

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How true, I remember bonking Sally Webster, a girl form Hull, on a school trip to Innsbruck.

I think you have old-timers, you are mixing up an old episode of Coronation St with On Her Majesty's Secret Service!

[GlenW]

True that. Sex education.

How true, I remember bonking Sally Webster, a girl form Hull, on a school trip to Innsbruck.

[MaryPoppins]

The joys of being the younger brother, when the eldest had school trips he got to go (Germany and France IIRC) by the time it was my turn my parents decided the novelty had wore off

Did they do the same with literacy?

[tractor]

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The joys of being the younger brother, when the eldest had school trips he got to go (Germany and France IIRC) by the time it was my turn my parents decided the novelty had wore off

All I got was a trip to an Oxford theatre to see Fenella Fielding in a boring bloody monologue. Attractive as she was, there wasn't even any nudity.

[SimonMac]

The joys of being the younger brother, when the eldest had school trips he got to go (Germany and France IIRC) by the time it was my turn my parents decided the novelty had wore off

[Ticktock]

Any school trips we had were half-terms or holidays. They wouldn't take us out of all classes to try to improve just one. They were a bit like Spock in the reactor chamber, like that.

[tractor]

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It's arranged as part of the school curriculum and considered part of the kids' education. HTH, BIDI.

Was that a dig? I am hurt.

I know what the excuses are. That was not what I was pointing out.

The practicality is that when I take kids abroad, I try to encourage them to communicate in the language and understand/participate in some of the customs.

Kid 2 went to France 2 weeks ago, £350 for 3 days. When he came back I asked him how many new French words he had learned? Zero.

[FiveTimes]

I'm still annoyed at having to pay a tenner for my child to visit a butterfly farm.

Home schooling it is, I think.

Do you have a butterfly farm at home ?

If so you should sell tickets