How much was your child’s residential?

[SisterAgatha]

Just interested to know as it’s our first time and it seems cheap.

3 nights/4 days
UK
State primary school
Activity centre with some external activities like high ropes
Food and travel included

Year 6 4 nights at PGL £320

Year 8 was offered one week ski trip to Italy in Feb (by coach) - £1450!!!! We declined

Both state schools

Y6 500 for 4 nights plus 200 on gear for the trip.

Almost 2k for Y7 ski trip. I said no thanks.

@mrsfoof @Shitscared123 I'm so sad more kids can't go on ski trips. We would never be able to afford it if our school didn't make it so affordable. The head agrees to run it on a random week in Jan which makes it much cheaper. £640 normal and £380 for FSM. Includes everything inc activities, jacket and trousers.
Wish more schools did this.

£410 3 nights

These are shocking. Our church youth group 10 - 13 are going Mon -Fri to a place in west Oxfordshire, transport, accommodation, three meals a day, activities are extra (albeit each child going has theirs paid for by a member of the church), £100.00 per child.

280 for 4 nights. Well worth the money, he’s never stopped talking about it

£380.00 is still a lot of money for a ski trip, and even half that must surely beyond someone who is eligible for FSM.

My DC's summer school isn't connected to a state school I forgot to add (I think some people will recognise it from the cost). She's also doing a shorter ballet summer school this summer at around £200, also opted for non residential.

@phra Well we've got 9 months to pay for it and of course it's expensive but skiing is expensive. The fact they've gone out of their way to make this, for many kids once in a lifetime trip, accessible is far more than many schools. There is a big difference between 2k and £380. This ski trip seems to be cheaper than many of these UK residentials.

Our p7 child's mon-fri PGL type residential was £350. S1 mon-fri residential was £325. No idea what the discount for low income families was for the primary one but high school was 50 quid off.

I’ve just been on one with year 6, 4 nights away at PGL, 5 activities per day, the charge was £465 per child.
When my dds were in senior school they were offering trips to Iceland. I sent them both on the same trip as it was the last year they were offering it and I didn’t want the other to miss out. Think that was just shy of 4K before the clothing and warm jackets were purchased. Well worth it for us, somewhere we would have loved to have visited but to have fitted in everything they did I don’t think we’d have managed it for less money than they did. They had an amazing time and talk about it regularly a few years on.

Two nights, three days in an outward bound centre about 90m drive away. Amazing food apparently, with all veg grown on site (a working farm). £155 per child (subsidised, I'm sure).

£234 year 7 for 3 nights and 4 days

Wow! That’s really wonderful that your kids will get this opportunity and that your school was willing to make it happen so that it was affordable. I’d be willing to pay up to 1k, but can’t justify anything more than that.

Monday to Friday £420 including coach - PGL is about a 2 hour drive away

Monday to Friday, coach 45 minutes, £450. Twins so a double hit. We were told £300 but between October and paying it escalated. There are five kids that couldn't go, I really feel for them.

@Shitscared123 I agree, we are very lucky. The school does lots of residentials at really affordable prices for what they are. I know not everyone will be able to go but I do think the price of most residentials now, most kids can't go. I feel in our school most can, minority can't. The neighboring schools either do no trips or very expensive ones so it is the luck of the draw.

phra Well we've got 9 months to pay for it and of course it's expensive but skiing is expensive.

Yes it is, though I'm out of touch now as I haven't done any skiing since my teens.

I see. I suppose those on FSM have more chance to pay £380 over nine months at least, but I don't know how they'd manage personally.

Yr 5, 2 nights 3 days, nature walks/pond dipping/camp fires etc £190. Yr 7, 5 day camping activity holiday, £480. The Yr 7's normally only have a handful of kids who don't go, this year they had 50 who never went.

£320 for 4 nights

Ours is £340 for 4 nights, sole use of activity centre for the school, pretty long coach journey there and back again.
It is subsidised by half for pupil premium children.

£451 for 4 nights all inclusive of activities and meals

£100 for one night.

My daughter missed out on primary school residentials because of covid. Secondary school is next level. Next year she's skiing in February (£950), 5 days in Barcelona in March (£850) and two days in London in July for Wimbledon/natural history museum (£240).

@phra I think it's the biggest stretch for those who just miss FSM but yes it's by no means cheap. Residentials are far too expensive by the looks of things, which is a huge shame.
@daisyjgrey what a lucky girl! Hope she has a great time.