So. Year 7. Large school.....270 in their year. School trips for the year have just been released.
There's three trips - one that everyone can go on, but the other two are restricted to 40 places! That doesn't seem enough for such a big year group, surely?!?
The places went online at 9am and the Europe trip sold out in fifteen minutes, and the UK trip was sold out by about lunchtime.
As parents, we had an e-mail on Tuesday telling us about the trips, how much they cost etc and that booking opened at 9am on Friday, first come, first served. Not everyone saw the e-mail, so not everyone was prepared.
The children were only told about it in assembly at half past eight on Friday morning, unless their teacher had mentioned it (which only seems to have happened if the child had the teacher involved in the trip in the days between the e-mail and the assembly).
First-come, first served meant that only those parents whose children stood a chance of a place were those that: a) had read the e-mail; b) could be online between 9am and 9.15am; c) had a spare couple of hundred pounds in the middle of the month; and d) had managed to communicate with their child about whether or not they wanted to go.
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...or should school find a different way to do this?
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caroloro · 21/10/2018 13:49
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