a heck of a lot of money?
DS8 came out of school Friday afternoon clutching a letter asking for £80 for a residential trip next April to a centre run by the providers named above.No other info regarding the centre or indeed what activities they plan to do .
Initially I thought that £80 for a residential seemed like a great opportunity. It was only when I discovered it was for essentially a 24 hour trip that I was a bit .
I am all for residential trips. My DD16 has been on all manner of trips with schools, Guides and City Farms etc so I'm not being PFB about my son's first trip.
The school has suggested a handy payment plan of £20 a month. Some families, including mine, will have to sacrifice other things to fund the trip and whilst I will figure it out, i do feel that it isn't great value for money.
(I don't wish to dripfeed so I'm just mentioning that the Head is a bit of a bully, since she took over in September 2015, over 80% of staff have left and the Governing Body resigned en masse in June. Ofsted made a surprise visit and highlighted safeguarding breaches, among other things. The school is now very much a one woman show with her sychophants in supporting roles. (This is quite identifying if anyone knows the school so I'm leaving it at this) I'm sharing this info as I think it's relevant. This feels like yet another example of parents being informed that something is happening, tough titties if you don't like it. I get that she's in charge but there's in charge and then there's in charge iyswim.)
Obviously I'm not going to just come on here for a moan, I plan on going to talk to the Head about this. What I wanted to know was:
Does anyone have experience of Caldecotte Xperience (gah, I hate deliberate misspellings)? Not a lot on Google about it.
Also, what is the going rate for Year3/4 trips these days? I'm used to a 5 day Year 5 trip, not a 1 night trip. Am IBU in thinking this is pretty extortionate?
This is probably the worst time to post a thread as it's Strictly etc but hopefully I'll get some replies. Anyway, as you were...
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to think that £80 for a night in Milton Keynes at the Caldecotte Xperience is
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