School trips

mum26

Since we moved our youngest three children to a new lower school they have been to:

Cadbury world
National Portrait museum
London Eye
Cambridge
Local town centre (with Italian children on an exchange trip)
Stratford upon Avon
Pantomime (whole school on last day of term before christmas )
trip to a local Moot Hall
Bletchley park

One of them will be going to Italy for a week (other twin didn't want to go)

I'm sure i'm missing a few..

They really enjoy the trips and they are so well organised. They keep them affordable as the PTA raise money to cover transport and parents pay the entry fee etc

CupOfChai

When she was small, a friend of mine once went on a school trip to her own house.

They had a surviving WWII air raid shelter in their garden, and the local school would take classes on a trip to visit it when they were learning about life then. So eventually it got round to her class going.

Spendless

CupOfChai wrote: »

When she was small, a friend of mine once went on a school trip to her own house.

They had a surviving WWII air raid shelter in their garden, and the local school would take classes on a trip to visit it when they were learning about life then. So eventually it got round to her class going.

A similar thing will happen at the school mine attend(ed). In one of the years they write about the history of the local area and a lot of the houses in our village were originally built by a factory for their workers. The work stopped not long before WW2 and never re-commenced, so the children are told about the house, which is on my street that was the last to be built. The current occupants of the house have 2 children who are just school age, so eventually they'll be told about their own house.:D

jackomdj

IOW is obviously popular as our school go in Y6 as well.

Frith

I used to live within sight of Wollaton Hall!

My sons have been to.... Ironbridge and Blists Hill, West Midlands Safari Park, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, a mosque in Wolverhampton, local cathedral, Avoncroft Museum, National Space Centre and various adventure type days and weekend.

My bigger son also spent a week in France when he was in year 6.

Re: going to your own house - in the village school I went to, classes from the Black Country used to come for the day. They always looked round a farm - at my mum and dad's! (Cue one child asking dad why there was so much dog muck around - in a field of sheep!)

Sunny_spell

The best school trips my children enjoyed:

Portsmouth Historic Dockyard (they loved it so much we got an annual pass!:))
Marwell Zoo
Intech Science Centre
Longdown Activity Farm
Search museum in Gosport

All trips were organised by a local primary school in Hampshire.

marisco_2

Spendless wrote: »

National Railway Museum
http://www.nrm.org.uk/

Jorvik Centre

http://jorvik-viking-centre.co.uk/


(both York)

I went to both of these great attractions as a child whilst on holiday. I really enjoyed the visits and hope to take my boys there in the summer, when we are on holiday visiting friends.

Justicia

marisco wrote: »

I am all dressed up as a Victorian school mistress, cane and all. Im not putting my bonnet on till I am well and truly on school grounds though

Picture or it isn't true... :P:rotfl:

valk_scot

My DS is going on a school trip to Poland next year that includes a day in Auschwitz and Krakow. Now that's going to be educational, he'll be 17 by then and I know it will affect him very strongly, in a positive way though.

For more simple days out, my kids have always enjoyed re-enactment events put on by organisations like Historic Scotland, and the english equivelant. .

marisco_2

Justicia wrote: »

Picture or it isn't true... :P:rotfl:

Not on your life

We have a bit of a weirdo as a caretaker who made some crass remarks as I walked across the car park today *shudder*

I told him to go and do some lines and stand in the corner, which went right over his head. I was just getting into character!