Skiing trip in regular state secondary?

Yes, every year and it's always full. About £1000 a head and my kids have never been. Lots don't, for obvious reasons.

yup, our state secondary (inside M25) offers one every year. DS is lucky that he also gets offered it with his scout troop, which is better value, so if he goes on one it'll be with them. I don't mind it being offered at school - its always going to be a minority who go, though.

Ours goes to the USA for a week. Madness. Mine didn't go! No idea how much it was as it wasn't an.option for us

My school held one but I was never allowed to go on it.

Mine went to private schools and they went in half term. The teachers gave up half term to take them! Having said that, one teacher decided to learn to snowboard and took no notice of the children at all. That was a great opportunity for her.

Yep the school my DS’s went to offered skiing.

Both had the opportunity to go, only DS2 went. Back in 2013 I think it cost around £750.

My FS is in a SEN High school and they go every year. I think it was £810 this year. He went last year and loved it so he's going again this year. All ages and abilities go with a mix of parents and teachers to support.

My DC's school do a ski trip every few years. This year's was £950 plus spending money and the cost of ski clothing etc. Thankfully my DC have no interest in going or I would be having to deal with tantrums about why I don't want to spend nearly the price of a family holiday on 4 days for one child.

Another school in the area are running a similar trip for £1300 (plus spending money etc). It seems like madness to me. And as PP have said, disrupts the teaching for the children who don't go as teachers are away and also clearly they don't want to teach anything new when a good few of the class are not there. I really can't see why this is OK but taking your own DC away for a few days is not.

But in the other hand, some of my friends' DC are going and they think it's the highlight of their school days so I suppose you can't please everyone.

My DS’s school offers a ski trip every other year, costs in the region of £900 and is in the Christmas holiday. My DS has been three times , he is an only child though, not not sure how families with more than one child afford it. I opened a separate bank account to save for it & collected all my £2 coins .

My kids go on their state schools ski trips, they love them. Costs are around £1000. My brother went on a school ski trip away back in the 70’s and that was a low attaining school in a very deprived area - so ski trips are nothing new.

@Goingonandonandon - we paid £1200 for the trip then about £150 to hire a suit and buy goggles etc. Definitely not a cheap trip but is the highlight of the last few years for DS

State secondary schools have done ski-ing trips for years - my DH went on one 40 years ago!
However I would agree that a lot of secondaries are offering what I would consider to be unnecessary trips at extortionate costs - e.g. A sports match in Barbados; a week long trip to USA west coast inc Grand Canyon, taking the DC the first day to get over the jet lag.

ours offers one. its £800 and its in term time. It has no specific language links or links to a particular education department. The IT teacher has gone so there is no IT for other pupils this week, one of the English teacher has gone so sets have doubled up.

Not that we can afford to go skiing but it annoys me that a parent taking their child skiing in term time would be fined for an unauthorised absence.

I wish my kids school did. I went skiing with secondary school back in the 80's and it was amazing.
As a family of 5 there is no way we can all afford to do a holiday like this ourselves. We have only ever been abroad to France once.
A school trip would give my child a wonderful opportunity.

Ours offers it, DS went in year 9. I wanted him to go as it's not something we'd ever do with him and we'd had a rubbish few years where we'd had to focus a lot on his little brother so I wanted to treat him. He loved it but it was bloody expensive!!

The ski trip on offer at state secondary next year costs £1800. £1800! We barely spend that on a family holiday;

I think at my DDs school it is about £1K.

Yes my dc's inner london school ran a trip every two years until this year. Iirc it only stopped because the teachers didn't want to go on it anymore. it cost in the region on £900 so really pricey!

The trip I am aware of is in the region of £750, which is very good value for what it includes, but obviously not cheap compared to other trips. Payment over 13 months.

Yup the step son came to us and asked us to pay for his skiing trip. His face has been slapped for a while since our answer. After all, we all could go on holiday for the price of it.

My state comp did, I went twice, and it's the only time I've ever had or will have the opportunity.

My kids school does a watersports in France trip that's £700, they will be going on that but we have several months to pay for it.

Outer London state school. A ski trip is run every other year for Y10&Y11. Very cheaply done (coach and dormitories) and lots of time to save up. Ski wear is pooled and recycled or bought very cheaply. The school also run ski fit sessions in the months running up to it. Some kids from the leafier streets have experience, but for most it is a once in a lifetime thing. The school has quite a broad range of family income, but I think 40-50% do the trip.

Ours does. It's bi-annual, for 2 year groups, and quite expensive. I'm not sending our oldest who could have gone as it's quite expensive and frankly, not good value for money. I suspect they'd get not nearly enough skiing time to make it worthwhile, either, as they'll have to be supervised at all times.

We could holiday as a family for a week at what it would cost!

DS's school does (more rural area, everyone from town and surrounding villages go there unless going private). I have no idea how many kids go, but ds might go next year - he likes skiing at the Snowdome, but neither dh or I ski (or want to) so it would be his only chance to go.