School trip £600!!!!!!!!!

gordikin

£600 is a cheap school trip...our local school's trip to S. Africa cost £3,700 for 4 weeks last year...and they lived in tents! The kids also had to do additional fund raising for the projects they planned to do whilst there!

Foggster

gordikin wrote: »

£600 is a cheap school trip...our local school's trip to S. Africa cost £3,700 for 4 weeks last year...and they lived in tents! The kids also had to do additional fund raising for the projects they planned to do whilst there!

That is ridiculous! LOL

Ours cost £1800 for 3 weeks including all hotel stays and meals.

rev_henry

gordikin wrote: »

£600 is a cheap school trip...our local school's trip to S. Africa cost £3,700 for 4 weeks last year...and they lived in tents! The kids also had to do additional fund raising for the projects they planned to do whilst there!

Yep, that's a joke. I went to India for 3 and a half weeks in 2006 with school and that was 'only' about £800 I seem to remember. Although that seems very cheap - I definitely remember the flights were £580 and the whole trip had a fair bit of change from £1k. We also had to do some additional fundraising for it. Thinking about it now it seems exceptionally good value considering we did travel all over the country. My parents wouldn't let me go again because I came back looking very thin and gaunt (so they claim), but I loved it.

gregg1

my oh and I both work in education and our kids have never gone on expensive school trips for the simple reason that we dont agree with them. Schools should drop these trips. They are devisive as not all parents can afford them.

Even when our kids have really wanted to go one we have just said no. If they want to go abroad they come with us. They have been upset for a bit but soon got over it.

It is OK to say no to kids and you really should not compensate them with another treat just because you have said no to something.

EssexGirl

I remember spending what at the time was possibly the worst week of my life in a grotty hostel in Dieppe on a school French trip.
The French teacher who allocated rooms dumped me in a room with the two worst girls in the year. I got blamed for all of their wrongdoings such as chucking a glass bottle out of a top floor window and narowly missing a local pensioner...

Not to mention the geography field trip to the Lake District where we stayed in a really creepy ex mental home high up on the side of a mountain. I heartily wished my parents hadn't foreked out for those trips, I swear I still have nightmares about the house on the hill 20 years later

But we did a couple of French exchange visits with our youth club for two summers running, we made such good friends and learned more French than we leaned in a whole term at school and came home with superb French accents. I even got 97% in my French GSCE because of it and it was a fraction of the cost of the school trip.

As a family we took 2 days out in Rome when I got 1p return flights and a £100 room, we covered most of the major sights and my DS lost 2 days of school, but gained a huge insight into Roman history that the classroom could never have taught him.

There is no way that I would pay more than £350 for a school trip to anywhere.

DS was invited on the £36 "good behaviour" trip to Thorpe Park but he declined and decided he would rather go with us.

paulinespens

I remember in 1991 paying about £140 for a 4 day trip to Paris with my school via coach with all meals included. Those where the days.

Welshwoofs

Now in my day, our annual school trip consisted of 1 day going on the coach to Weston-Super-Mare. We also did a French exchange which only cost a couple of hundred as you were billeted with your French counterpart in their family home.

OH's kids have brought back various letters for trips ranging from Australia to watch cricket (for P.E. @ £1,500) to Iceland to look at the bloody volcano (Geography @ £700)

It seems to me that most of these things have only a passing relationship to the subjects they're supposed to be educating about and have much more to do with going on a jolly.

Sharon87

I never went on the more expensive trips in school. I remember our schools use to have a limit on the amount of students who could go on the trips, so not everyone went. We used to have 2 weeks in the summer set out for the trips. There were usually 3 different trips - from France (about £200 or so), somewhere in England (I think York) for less than £100 and activities in the school, and a day trip to London.

I remember being a bit upset about not being able to go to France, but I had fun in London.

I remember in college we went to Disneyland for 2 nights and Paris for 1 night - only cost about £160, which I paid for myself, I had a part time job. My mum did give me some money for credit though - mobile phones abroad in 2005 cost even more than now! I remember the 'educational' part of the trip was a lecture from people from Pixar and other companies (doing a Media BTEC at the time), that lasted about 2 hours, then we went on the rides lol.

binkadv

minimacka wrote: »

Looking at some other threads on here its seems that we all should just throw in the towel and go on the jsa, incapacity benefits etc... one family are getting £680 a week in benefits now that cant be right can it. Sorry rant over.....

x

My Husbands brother's family (i know that's hard work but i cant bear calling him my brother-in-law) have been on benefits for 11 years. and i worked out the other day with all the 5 children and them actually cheating the system (they HAVE been reported...twice) they are getting close to £800 a WEEK! whereas we are on benefits after him getting made redundant and are getting under £100 a week and struggling. My husband and I have wanted a second child for over a year but there is no way in hell I am going to let the government raise a child of mine.

Sorry I just get SO angry with all these benefits cheats and complete idiots who just want a free ride.

Morgan_Ree

binkadv wrote: »

My Husbands brother's family (i know that's hard work but i cant bear calling him my brother-in-law) have been on benefits for 11 years. and i worked out the other day with all the 5 children and them actually cheating the system (they HAVE been reported...twice) they are getting close to £800 a WEEK! whereas we are on benefits after him getting made redundant and are getting under £100 a week and struggling. My husband and I have wanted a second child for over a year but there is no way in hell I am going to let the government raise a child of mine.

Sorry I just get SO angry with all these benefits cheats and complete idiots who just want a free ride.

Well you've obviously got a lot of spare time of your hands to sit down and work that out.

It's a sad existence your BIL (sorry it's easier!!) leads. Don't spend your time worrying about it.