School trips

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Ooh yes, we had membership there first when the kids were 2 and 3, but since then stuck to Knockhatch - purely for the Hot Chocolate in Froggies you understand!!! lol.

Might trade in some Tesco vouchers for Drusillas soon, last august I took my daughter with some friends and we bumped into my son's head teacher with his family. Of all the places.....

marisco_2

I think it is most peoples second home round these parts.

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Yes I guess so. Its a parenting rite of passage.

stiltwalker

Mine aren't school age yet but we still have some fab days out. Earlier this month we had a night in York and went to the Railway museum and Jorvik. In May we are off up to Durham and going to Diggerland. When we go up to my parents we go to the South Lakes Wild Animal Park at Dalton, which is the nicest wild animal place I've ever been to. DD also loves Sealife centres and DS loves the jellyfish at them. We are National Trust members and like the houses with good gardens. We have also had a fab non-school school trip to Eden Camp with some home edding friends of ours.

By far the favourite place in the whole entire wide world however is our local farm park - we are there so often they have practically adopted us - DD loves the donkeys best, but all the animals really and DS likes to gawp at the big tractor although he did say 'donkey' for the first time today - particularly fabulous as it is his first new word for almost a year (although he has started to sign in the meantime).

Molly41

One school trip - I was a parent helper when my DD was 6/7 and we went to Black Country Museum. We went into the school and role played victorian school times - I was singled out and was disciplined. My poor DD rushed forward and told the victorian teacher to leave her Mummy alone and promptly burst into tears.

It is not the only time she has stood my corner as she is a feisty woman now. It also happened in Madam Tussaud's when she told a very well-to-do family off for pushing in when they had a row with the poor girl on the door!

Not all our trips are so eventful though and we enjoyed so many when the kids were young. They learn so much on school trips and residentials and also those taken with parents and family. Priceless memories for them and such golden opportunities. They dont have to cost loads either - some of my kid's happiest memories are visiting the free museums and parks.

Skintski

We did 5 days in York when I was 11 which I loved, it was my first experience of freedom. We also did the planetarium and the science museum then at secondary school I went to Barcelona two years in a row as part of a business studies B-tec which was brilliant. The teachers took us nightclubbing and treated us like adults although they weren't particularly late nights. I'd do those all over again.

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There's also a weekend trip to Paris and a week to New York lined up. Part of me thinks that it's the teachers who like to arrange these trips !

OMG! I can't believe you said this! Have you been on any trip with a school as an accompanying adult? You obviously haven't because you wouldn't be making such an ignorant comment! It's not the jolly that you seem to think it is, taking a group of OTHER people's children to another city, sometimes another country, being responsible for them 24/7 with little recognition (as your post proves) from parents and the general public.

I have been on many trips with school. Do you think I want to give up half of my holidays to look after somebody else's children? to have to argue with them every night to get them to bed at a suitable time, to fight with them to get them out of bed in the morning, to get them to follow the trip's rules when their parents have told them to ignore what the teachers say (in a specific case of relinquishing mobiles phones so they don't get lost of damage for instance)? Do you really think teachers want to deal with the stress of it all, making sure they listen, they follow rules, they don't get lost, they are safe all the time?

Don't you realise the pressure that is put upon teachers from management to get these trips organised?

Don't you think if I wanted to go on a nice holiday, I wouldn't rather go with a friend? Without having to fill in a risk assessment form, looking after medication for others, specific dietary requirement, etc?

I can't believe that in this day and age someone would say such a silly thing!

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We've been to ..

Chiltern open air museum, Bedfordshire
Natural history museum in Tring, Hertfordshire
RAF museum in Hendon, London
Think tank, Birmingham
Cadburys world
Walks around London (Buckingham palace, Big Ben, Piccadilly Circus..)
Wembley stadium
de Havilland aircraft museum, Shenley, Hertfordshire

It helps living 30 minutes from London. We've got a nearly 5 and nearly 3 year old

meritaten

I know this local tourist attraction well - we have been there many times as a family.its also a favourite for school trips as the history is fascinating.

its Llancaiach Fawr Manor House near Gelligaer Mid Glam. (pronounce it Thlan Ky Ack Vower or the locals will laugh at you)
its an award winning attraction and great fun.

The Servants of the manor are of course dressed in the fashion of the day when the manor was in its prime. owned by the Pritchard family. the servants will regale you with the gossip of the day, customs of the day and entertain you.
If this doesn't take the whole day then a few miles down the valley is Castell Coch (Red Castle). A Victorian folly built in the style of a Bavarian castle. its quite spectacular. and smaller than you will think on the approach. or you could visit Caerphilly Castle instead - which is huge. and very beautiful.
there you go - three great attractions all within ten miles of each other! and there are other smaller sites of interest dotted up and down the valleys. including Pits, Museums (the best of which is St Fagans, the museum of 'Welsh Life' just outside Cardiff).
hope this has been helpful to you marisco, and anyone else who may be interested.
If you are coming to South Wales for a seaside holiday - please don't think the valleys are boring places full of coal tips. They aren't. these days they are green and beautified. and have fascinating secrets for visitors to discover.
I am sounding like a tourist guide I know. But, I absolutely love the valleys where I live, and would like to share this.

I have only just noticed the date of posting and have since scrolled down and wondered if marisco was on 'speed' or something!
Sorry marisco - I hope I haven't contributed to this awful bullying by posting.