I've been reading this thread "Question regarding school day out"

Artytarty

sorry for laughing at your misfortune KP, but it so reminds me of a wonderful French and Saunders sketch.. they get left behind on a school trip and start out by being all brave and bolshy but that dosent last long! Anyone know the sketch I mean?

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Went to Northumbria with my primary school. Only found out I was going two days before because my mum had refused until that point to let me. Can remember seeing Hadrian's Wall, and that there was miles of land beyond which I wanted to go and see.

My mother went spare when I got back to find out that the photos I had taken of seals were actually taken whilst zipping through the Farne Islands on a boat. Staff never told her that the swell was so high that I was the only one still standing at the time.



Didn't get to go on any more school trips after that. I even had the chance to go on a sailing ship across to Holland. My mum said no, even when the school offered to pay for me to go 'Just because'. Got a walloping for the staff daring to phone her and ask personally if she would reconsider. Spent best part of a week sitting in class alone as everyone else had gone. By Thursday, staff took pity on me, and I was presented with £40 and told to spend the rest of the week shopping.

As soon as I was 16 I was offered a place on an Outward Bound course. Informed her I was going. She refused to speak to me for the whole week coming up to the course. Right up until the moment I walked out of the door, I was expecting her to suddenly come out of her room waving the cane around. But she didn't.

I spent a lot of that week hanging upside down belaying, trying to not fall 30 foot into the sea, horseriding, getting a permanent scar on my hand from not quite managing to exterminate myself down a pothole and being taught to steer a fishing boat by the skipper whilst everyone else was bright green and feeding the fishes. We spent the last night barbequeing our dinner whilst looking out to sea and watching a massive electrical storm miles off in the distance.

It was the first time I ever felt totally free.

If I could have been left behind with a tent, I would have been the happiest teenager on the planet.

amy_lou_4

I love that you all enjoyed York, it is very near me and I find it funny how "exotic" it would be to someone coming up north!
My best memories of primary school trips are anything where we got to dress up! In Year 5 we went to East Riddlesden Hall (about 15 mins from me) and dressed up in long black skirts, white aprons and white mop caps. We made scones and vegetable soup in the old kitchen, and God's-eyes (wool things on sticks) and clove pomanders while listening to stories about all the ghosts of the Hall. It was so exciting to be wandering the old tiny corridors and attics!
My best "older" trip was a 10 day visit to Prague, Krakow, Warsaw and Berlin. It was part of our Holocaust unit in A Level History so we focussed on visiting the Jewish ghettos and went to Auschwitz-Birkenau, but also had a lot of fun in the February snow and going to the different shops and pubs. Some great memories from my final year of school with all my friends, we went on a coach so required a fair bit of team spirit!

Ivrytwr3

Young teenager on the ferry from Dover to Calais and won a about 20 quid on the fruit machine (a lot of money back then!) all in 50p pieces.

Bought me and my mates loads of sweets and by the time we had docked we had thrown all the sweets back up.

Caroline73_2

sixth Forn ski trip...Not really much else to say

Old_Joe

Nice to hear of your variety of experiences.
I'm that old we had none during the war years, but not knowing any different we didn't miss owt.

Curious_George_2

I remember all my friends going on a school trip to france, and me being the only one in the class who didnt go...

pah

pinkie_pie

We went to ummmm... some zoo (we are down south!) that has since shut down, and possibly windsor safari park when it was still there.
Also a WW2 museum, an aircraft museum, something that had (I believe) the mary rose in it... All pretty much good for a day out of class.

And the standard (and still standard which I find quite interesting!!!) year 6 '5 night trip away' which was really good, orienteering and such.


I think there was a year 7 camping one (I have awful photos in cycling shorts)...

after that I only remember a year 9 camping one (but that was when I'd moved to another country and was proper camping too...)

pinkie_pie

Oooh the talk of dressing up.. I think we went to this tiny tiny museum that was possibly about 'olden days' with people dressed up, I think they were showing how people used to live. I remember they made home made bread, the first time I had ever had it, or butter! I still remember the taste of real butter from that day! (My mum was mad on flora )

esmf73

When I was in Primary School we went to Fforest Coal Pit (somewhere in Wales - hence the Ff) - separate boys and girls buildings, and lots of walking and packed lunches for a few days, but it was great.

Then I remember going to the Three Counties Show in Malvern - but the best bit of this was that Mun had made my packed lunch and put it in lots of little bags - on the outside of each bag was a little note saying things like - hope you're having a good time, that the cows aren't moooooing too much etc. It was great - and I can't wait to do that to my own children!