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What random school trips did you go on?

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DhIsAJudge · 05/12/2025 13:59

GCSE drama and we were studying a midsummer’s night dream. We trekked over to the Lowry from north wales to watch a performance.

It was so bizarre, it wasn’t in English it was in Sanskrit, Hindi and another language which was fine but it was really hard to follow. It was also set in modern times and there was a massive scaffold on the set.

Then about 45 mins in the smoke alarm went off in the Lowry and the stage filled with smoke and the audience (us included) just stayed in our seats as we all thought it was part of the play until the ushers came round and told everyone to leave as one of the actors behind the scenes had accidentally set fire to a prop.

I genuinely think that if they hadn’t come out to tell us it was on fire we’d have just stayed there and burned to death.

We also went to a sub station and learned about electricity and as we went round the site I saw my dad who forgot we were coming 😂😂 (he was head engineer and he knew he had a school trip but didn’t know it was my school)

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Ohitsatiara · 05/12/2025 15:42

At primary school in East Sussex a trip to Dungerness in Kent. I can't remember anything about it and I'm not sure if we went to the lighthouse or the nuclear power plant. I do remember being sick on the coach both going and coming back. I did not go on the next sick trip which was a day trip to Dieppe.

lookonmwyworksyemightyanddispair · 05/12/2025 15:49

The chemistry teacher (male) at my all girls secondary school used to take groups of girls to France to work on doing up a chateau. There was very little supervision. It was not very surprising to discover that some years later that he was investigated for child sex abuse. Unfortunately he died before he could be prosecuted. Luckily I was not in his clique so had little contact with him at school.

TheNightingalesStarling · 05/12/2025 15:54

My DS, I'm Yr6, went to the local Soft Play centre.
They needed children so they could practice the emergency evacuation procedure.

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TheNightingalesStarling · 05/12/2025 15:57

I have fond memories of a trip to Battle (near Hastings) to look at the field where the battle took place.

We then had to reenact the battle (without the weapons, horses etc) so we could understand where the armies were. In our school uniform of blazers, blouses, skirts, school shoes etc.

Musicaltheatremum · 05/12/2025 16:00

We went to Holy Island (aka Lindisfarne) for a day trip in the early 70s and met the pop group Lindisfarne by chance. Got all their autographs which we had them sign on the back of our worksheets much to the teachers' annoyance.

Catpiece · 05/12/2025 16:03

Tutankhamen at the British Museum 1972

Georgiepud · 05/12/2025 16:05

Another Box Hill here. I wasn't particularly impressed.

A circus with animals!

Cambridge at senior school. We messed about punting.

TeenToTwenties · 05/12/2025 16:05

Catpiece · 05/12/2025 16:03

Tutankhamen at the British Museum 1972

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I went to that with my family. I was 5. All I remember was the queue!
Talked about it with my DB recently, he was 7, the queue is his main memory too!

LlynTegid · 05/12/2025 16:06

Showing my age, we went to a working coal mine. Changing facilities at a house near the pit.

Windthebloodybobbinup · 05/12/2025 16:06

A nappy factory! Got a free nappy to take
home 😝

LlynTegid · 05/12/2025 16:07

Musicaltheatremum · 05/12/2025 16:00

We went to Holy Island (aka Lindisfarne) for a day trip in the early 70s and met the pop group Lindisfarne by chance. Got all their autographs which we had them sign on the back of our worksheets much to the teachers' annoyance.

Lucky you getting to meet the late Alan Hull and the other members.

Dinosaursdontgrowontrees · 05/12/2025 16:09

Not me sadly but dh went to a box factory (anyone seen that Simpson episode??) he said it was so dull but they could choose a small box to take home.

SilverPink · 05/12/2025 16:09

All these sewage works trips is reminding me of that episode of Come Outside with Pippin the dog 😂
My most exciting trips were a biscuit factory and youth hostels in the Peak District, generally in the winter….

PurplePeacock · 05/12/2025 16:14

No one ever believes me when I tell them we went to M&S to look at the big freezer. I kid you not! It was a primary school trip, obviously times and funds were hard 😂

greglet · 05/12/2025 16:16

@Faircastle I bloody love Lunt Roman Fort. I enjoyed my own Y4 trip there so much that when I became a teacher, I took my own cohort of Y4s for the day!

@TheNightingalesStarlingI recently re-enacted the Battle of Hastings on one of the school fields with my Y7s 😂 They had paper aeroplanes for arrows.

We went to a quarry in middle school. Presumably it was tied to the curriculum in some way, but I don’t think it was made explicit so we were all a bit bemused by the experience.

WhiteAmericanoNoSugar · 05/12/2025 16:18

I just remember going on the same trip to the same farm every year. I still was excited though.

TokyoSushi · 05/12/2025 16:19

We went to France in 1993, I think we were year 8, we all drank loads of french beer and the teachers just let us get on with it! 😳

Catpiece · 05/12/2025 16:22

TeenToTwenties · 05/12/2025 16:05

I went to that with my family. I was 5. All I remember was the queue!
Talked about it with my DB recently, he was 7, the queue is his main memory too!

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Yes! I was 10.

SomethingAboutNothing · 05/12/2025 16:23

GCSE Drama trip to the Royal Opera House to watch an opera, the whole place full of school children. I cannot remember the name of the opera but funnily enough do remember the orgys and sex scenes acted out on stage 😂

BatshitIsTheOnlyExplanation · 05/12/2025 16:26

RescueMeFromThisSilliness · 05/12/2025 15:37

In primary school many years ago we went to Stansted Mountfitchet Castle and we were all really excited on the way there.

When we arrived were were somewhat taken aback to find not a real-life castle with turrets, battlements, drawbridge etc but a grassy mound with a ditch round it.

It's now completely fake and has been 'rebuilt' with actors and re-enactments. Kids seem to like it though.

FastTurtle · 05/12/2025 16:29

London zoo three times.

NoArmaniNoPunani · 05/12/2025 16:29

We went to the Holy Ghost fathers in Bromley. Some of the class got caught smoking in the toilets

StoneFoxMama · 05/12/2025 16:30

We were taken to an african village made up of mud huts and wooden structures, it even had a river and a wooden boat that we were taken on. We all cooked lunch on an open fire and sang traditional african songs, it was amazing and somewhere weird like suburban London.
I had to google it as I wondered if I'd made up some fantasy trip and it was there! It's closed now.
It definitely made an impression and I've since been to various parts of Africa many times.

uhtredofbattenberg · 05/12/2025 16:32

This was not me but my DC although I attended as a parent helper. The school left it too late to book a proper school trip, so we went of a trip to another primary school.

It made me feel better about DCs school, though, because the teachers in that other school were pretty crap - and in a weird way.

darksided · 05/12/2025 16:32

Dungeness nuclear power station when I was in primary school in the 80s. More than once.

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