Both day trips and residential trips. Share yours here
Whitby aged 10. Friendship groups didn’t fit with the room plans.
Had to share a room with the girl with no friends. Hated it. She snored badly. My friends who had a room for 3 had 4 beds. I asked why I couldn’t sleep in the last bed. Can’t remember what BS excuse headteacher made. I did sneak in and slept in the room. Set my alarm clock 15-20 mins before we got knocked on the door by the teacher to wake up. Crawled into bed in the room where no friends girl slept in. I got away with this as the room where my friends were in was at the far end of the corridor, furthest away from the teacher’s.
Geography residential A-level in Swanage. The hotel’s packed lunches were minute! Asked for a ham sandwich and it was one slice of bread with one slice of wafer thin ham and a 200ml juice box. You wouldn’t give that small amount to a 5 year old, let alone 16-17 years olds walking 5-6 miles a day. Most of the money we took was spent on food! Then the showers. Two students had warm showers and the rest had cold!