What random school trips did you go on?

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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)

Hinkley Nuclear power plant was probably the most interesting school trip I went on. Only got to go as I was quick putting up my hand when they had spaced left for set 2 (was normally only a set 1 trip)

First year of 6th form, so aged 16/17, went on a Business Studies trip to Paris to some sort of conference, to this day I have no memory of it and no idea what it was. Most folk got drunk in their hotel rooms on the first night and got bollocked by the poor teachers, so my friends and I waited and got drunk on the second night and got away with it.

Blue circle cement works

I was part of my school council in primary school. 8 of us total from each year group - I was year 6.

We went to the tip and 1 of the year reception children vomited from the smell.

Butlins Skegness for a “girls in STEM” event in 1994 or 1995. Johnnie Ball hosted it. His daughter Zoe was there.
the science was really interesting but the teachers did no checks on us. Lots of alcohol, misbehaviour and escaping at night looking for boys. There were no boys but we tried anyway 🤣

Parent helper on a school trip to the Roald Dahl museum in Missenden (I think?).

2 classes of yr 3 children.

All fine at the actual museum, if a touch boring.

Then a traipse through a quaint little high street, up a hill, over a dual carriageway to a beautiful little church on the top of the hill....to see his GRAVE!!!
15 odd kids (been split into groups) wandering around a bloody graveyard, trying to tell them not to just walk anywhere, because you know graves!
Complete with a family at a nearby fresh grave, mound, flowers etc.
It was mortifying.

Possibly Aklowa African village in Takeley, near Stansted Airport.

Blimey were you at school with me!

We once went to a crisp factory, and oddly it was one of the more memorable ones.

We had a trip to an American army base. Not in the context of any lesson or project, we just went there. It was one of my best and most memorable school trips. I particularly remember a soldier explaining the psychology of a self-injecting kit, where you put it on your arm and the needle popped out into your skin - rather than having to stick a visible long needle your flesh. They had vending machines with drinks that at the time you couldn't get in the UK such as Sprite and Mountain Dew (this was the 80s) and gave us some to try.

Primary school, visit to a local farm. We saw a lamb being born. Then a tour of the very large pig barn. There was a piglet born without an anus, the farmer told us it would be killed the next day. I was very traumatised.

We went to see Macbeth in the 6th form as doing English a level. We all got alcoholic drinks at the bar (all of us 17 and under) but they ID’d our teacher and wouldn’t sell her a glass of wine! She made a real fuss and told them none of us were old enough to drink, and they threaten to throw her out! That was a great trip!

Some of these are hilarious, thank you for the laughs I needed some! We just had Roman villas and castles and a silk factory. I do remember a very strange french exchange though...

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Re: sewage works trip.

Not Northants, but a small run down pit town in the Midlands.

It was the mid seventies and it really wasn’t fun at all!
😱

We went on a school trip to a local farm once, the farmers son was in my class, whilst not that odd for me, must have been for him!!

Candle factory. Although it was actually at the home of one of the class mums who made beautiful hand dipped candles in her garage. We had a go at dipping and could buy candles at the end.

While working in a school, I went on a school trip to Pizza Express. A bored 19 year old showed us where they kept the mops etc. ("And jere are the spare till rolls").

The kids enjoyes making pizza. When we were given some pizza by the chef for the staff room, one teacher scooped the whole lot up and said "great, I won't have to cook tonight". Still salty.

Travelled to Stratford -Upon-Avon to watch Hamlet. We were studying Julius Caesar.

An end of school trip to the Royal Welsh Show. Goodness knows why they thought 13 and 14 year olds would enjoy watching the prettiest cow competitions . The only thing I remembered about it that it was the day of the Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings 😢

A-level Maths trip to Alton Towers. I still remember clutching a piece of A4 paper about centrifugal force as we set off round a rollercoaster.

This has brought back some memories of trips I’d totally forgotten about!

At primary school we went on a trip to the National Grid. It was really good.

For GCSE French, we went on a trip to the Peugeot factory in…. Coventry.

Also at secondary school, we went to a performance of the Czech opera Katya Kabanova. I don’t think it was for music class, and we certainly didn’t learn Czech at my state comprehensive, so I have no idea why we went.

We went to china in the late 80s when china wasn’t really the sort of place westerners went. It was so unusual we were on Blue Peter (Mark Currie, Yvette Fielding, Caron Keating era)

we saw some sights. It was a very different place back then. Hole in the floor loos, food unlike anything any of us had ever seen, curious people following us and touching our hair. Lots of us had never been abroad before. It was quite the culture shock.

we were in Tiananmen Square a week or so before the massacre (we were home by then)

My dd went on a trip to a recycling processing plant

We did that - all I remember was the queue!

@DeathBanana i also went to China with school. It didn’t get me on Blue Peter though.

Croughton (Upper Heyford) by any chance?

We love Eden Camp😂