Not knowing if school trip is going ahead

maman

de_g. wrote: »

Do remember too that if the trip is part of the curriculum, rather than optional, the school cannot exclude your child from the trip if you are unable or unwilling to pay towards the cost, and the school must not pressurise you or any other parent who cannot or chooses not to contribute.

Which is great in theory but without funding from parents then residentials just wouldn't happen.

cutestkids

Spendless wrote: »

When did you pay for it during the time that you knew about it or in the last 10 days? How much was it for?

Hi the trip was at the end of April, we had to pay by the end of March and at the time were told that it would be taking place at some point from the last week in April to the last week in May.
The cost for parents was £100.

I wouldnt have been happy if they had not sorted out the payment details before then.

Spendless

Gigervamp wrote: »

Why don't you just ring the school and ask?

Because daughter was told yesterday that teachers were having a meeting about it first. I would therefore get no further info until the meeting took place. I mentioned this in my opening post and in a later one, but since you keep on getting thanks over it, thought it needed re-iterating.:p

Spendless

cutestkids wrote: »

I wouldnt have been happy if they had not sorted out the payment details before then.

This is the situation we are left with, because it hadn't been confirmed until letters came out today there's been no payments into school. £135 now needs paying within the next 4 weeks.

Gigervamp

Spendless wrote: »

Because daughter was told yesterday that teachers were having a meeting about it first. I would therefore get no further info until the meeting took place. I mentioned this in my opening post and in a later one, but since you keep on getting thanks over it, thought it needed re-iterating.:p

Sorry. I just thought it might be better to get it first hand from the source.

I feel your frustration though. Hope they pull their trousers up and decide what's happening and let the parents know what's happening.

cutestkids

Spendless wrote: »

This is the situation we are left with, because it hadn't been confirmed until letters came out today there's been no payments into school. £135 now needs paying within the next 4 weeks.

I would not be happy about that we had plenty of time to pay and were able to pay it up weekly, everyone was given a card and you could just pop into the school when collecting the kids or use the council website to put money on.
We knew that the trip wold definatly happen just not when as there are 15 schools in the area that do the trip so it is split over 3-4 weeks.

I would be bringing it up with the head,

pollypenny

As a parent, I would be unhappy at the short notice to find the money.

As a teacher, Id be dreading another week of bring on duty 24 hours and little cherubs messing about at midnight!

Spendless

I suppose school could say that we were made aware initially at Easter, via the comment on the newsletter and at the meeting at the end of June we were told of the rough price, within £10. There's still clothes to buy for it though. I would have liked a payment plan to have started earlier. For some parents they only have one pay day between then and now to find the money.