School trip £600!!!!!!!!!

popadom

GentleGiant wrote: »

Am sure it has been mentioned in this thread but schools can only ask for contributions for school trips and events (such as swimming lessons) that take place during the school day (even if it runs over by a few hours).

On School holidays you are not obliged to pay for anything that happens during the school day. You have to pay for accommodation and meals. The schools must divide up these costs if you ask.

Sadly many schools do not make this clear on letters, but this is the law and they must abide by it.

Of course if enough people do not pay, then the school may cancel the event or trip.

do you have proof of this...only i want to email my parents.. they have two young ones now.

danlojo

That's expensive!

Backbiter

rev_henry wrote: »

For those of you talking about ski trips, my Uni Ski Club trip to Val Thorens is only £399, for a week, including lift passes and transport (can't remember if it was coach or plane), plus another £90 or so for ski hire. Makes school ski trips seem outrageous. I went on a school one about 5 years ago that I think cost my parents £800.

Your Uni Ski Club is charging you £489 "or so" including lift pass.

It is not including the cost of ski classes: £80 a head minimum.

It is not including full board: £100 a head minimum, assuming £5 per meal (unrealistically cheap for a resort in the Alps)

It is almost certainly not going in the school holidays: add on another 20-30% peak-time supplement, which is a huge add-on. It's not schools who add this supplement.

You don't mention if insurance is included or not.

The actual cost you will pay will probably be not much less than that charged to a school pupil, once you've factored in these 'extras'. And you won't of course have the benefit of responsible adults (or do Uni lecturers come along?) to make sure you don't get up to no good on and off the slopes.

I am not disputing that school trips are costly, but do not for one minute think that your week in Val Thorens will cost you just £399 + £90 ski hire.

davemorton

Takoda wrote: »

Not really about original topic but since a lot of folk have been commenting about 'free' museum trips costing £15 odd. The cost of the coach is a huge factor even in small trips. We're only allowed to take our classes on one trip a year. Mine in the Spring will cost £17 and £12 of that is the coach to a destination about 20 miles from school!

Its sometimes worth checking the price of a few taxis to take the class, as it sometimes works out cheaper, mad but true!

gregg1

Idiophreak wrote: »

Yes, surely the teachers should *pay* to look after a bunch of screaming brats for a week in a foreign country...:wall:

My OH is a teacher and strongly feels that all these trips should be stopped. Most teachers dont want to go on them anyway - it is usually a real struggle to find teachers willing to go and it puts far too much pressure on parents to come up with the money.

We never let our kids go abroad with the school - they want to go abroad we take them ourselves and they have not missed out in any way.

shortchanged_2

When I was a kid I never had the nerve to ask my parents to pay for me to go on a school skiing trip as I knew it was so expensive.

These trips should be banned for a couple of reasons. They are selective to the families of kids whose parents can afford to send their kids on these trips.
I object to paying towards a free holiday for the teachers who host the trip.

popadom

coolmumh wrote: »

I would just like to add in the defense of some of us so called "scroungers"

I am a single mum with 3 children still at home who is on benefits but I am actively seeking work which when you have been at home bringing at children is no easy task.

I have paid the full amount for each school trip my children have gone on as I do not believe its down to others to pay for them and in fact my oldest two's school as far as I am aware do not do "discount for benefits" I have saved each and every time for my kids!

So please stop lumping us all in the same basket please.

I am only claiming because my husband left me and as soon as I can get a job will be signing off!

why has my post been removed about this subject...all i said was that "i dont think youve actually paid as such as yyour on benefits , benefits shouldnt cover school trips" hardly nasty, i even said i admire her saving skills.

i only pointed this post out as she said "i dont want people paying for my children"

i cant see anything wrong, and no, i wasnt a slant.

rev_henry

Backbiter wrote: »

Your Uni Ski Club is charging you £489 "or so" including lift pass.

It is not including the cost of ski classes: £80 a head minimum.

It is not including full board: £100 a head minimum, assuming £5 per meal (unrealistically cheap for a resort in the Alps)

It is almost certainly not going in the school holidays: add on another 20-30% peak-time supplement, which is a huge add-on. It's not schools who add this supplement.

You don't mention if insurance is included or not.

The actual cost you will pay will probably be not much less than that charged to a school pupil, once you've factored in these 'extras'. And you won't of course have the benefit of responsible adults (or do Uni lecturers come along?) to make sure you don't get up to no good on and off the slopes.

I am not disputing that school trips are costly, but do not for one minute think that your week in Val Thorens will cost you just £399 + £90 ski hire.

Those are fair points. Most people going (I'm not planning to go atm, actually!) are already accomplished skiers/boarders who will just go and do their own thing without lessons. Its going 1st week of Jan so that is still school holidays no? Insurance is not included, probably because its cheaper for everyone to do their own thing rather than go on a group policy.

Ha, lecturers going to make sure they don't get up to no good! Hardly a benefit. We're all students over 18, if we want to go and get slaughtered every night we will...

Backbiter

shortchanged wrote: »

I object to paying towards a free holiday for the teachers who host the trip.

So organising the trip in their own time and looking after 40-50 kids on their week off constitues a 'holiday'?
I've heard they are allowed time off to go to sleep between 1am and 8am, so I suppose it is a freebie, really.

giraffe69

These trips should be banned for a couple of reasons. They are selective to the families of kids whose parents can afford to send their kids on these trips.
I object to paying towards a free holiday for the teachers who host the trip.

So nobody is allowed to go because some can't afford it? I espect noone should own a car as there are those who can't afford one. If you don't want your family to go then fine but why you have to impose your wishes on others is less clear. I doubt you would find many teachers who would find going on one of these trips an unmissable lure because they don't pay but organise and supervise and take responsibility if and when things go wrong.