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)

I went on a school trip to another primary school for a day. Some sort of weird exchange thing - they swapped half a class for the day but it was just a normal day in school.

I know what you mean. We did go back about 18 years ago with our dd. We all liked the toy museum next door.

I was a parent helper when my DS's class went to the local synagogue. DS was very disappointed when we got there because he thought he was going to the cinema.

Hole in the floor loos

We encountered hole in the floor loos on our school trip to France, at a rural petrol station. Several of us got out of the coach to use the loo - only one girl actually used it.

I can't now think why I was squeamish over it, it wouldn't bother me these days.

Oh wow. I’m amazed anyone else was unhinged enough to undertake such an endeavor 🤣 when did you go?

A walk around our local high street, looking at original features as a lot of it was built innthe Victorian period. Our last stop was my mum's shop (we lived in the flat upstairs) as it had some period features.
They then made me walk the mile back to school before releasing me to walk back home we didn't have any further lessons or anything afterwards. I guess it would have caused complaints if I'd gone home then but I was a bit miffed as we were literally outside my house, waving at my mum

I've been googling since posting trying to work out where it was, and it might well have been, it's the right sort of distance from where I was at school. I remember loads of details from the visit but not its name! They were so nice to us, we were more used to adults being stand-offish with school kids in those days.

Yeah same I’d not hesitate now but we were only 11 and pretty sheltered. They also smelt really bad and I can still remember the smell. We did an overnight train and it was literally a hole with the tracks rushing underneath. I also remember long troughs which were communal ones. I think I’d balk at that even now 🤣

I think it was 2001. It was part funded by the Labour government of the time, to “foster links between the U.K. and China”, or something. Quite how they thought that would be achieved by sending over a load of unruly 16 year olds, I’ll never know. It wasn’t just my school either - there were about four school loads of us staying in this Beijing university halls. It was an amazing experience, but definitely qualifies as random!

In primary school (late 1980s) we went to our local Sainsbury's, stood backstage in the bakery and watched them put jam into the doughnuts.

And in middle school so probably year 5 or 6 we walked to a local church and performed a wedding. We all had a role to play (thankfully I was just a member of the congregation) and we even had to wear our posh clothes. Looking back that was weird as 2 of the kids had to be bride and groom. Cringe.

The usual outward bound, the theatre etc but two stand out as weird.

First, we were doing a study on critical infrastructure in prep school and visited a mortuary it was not in use and we didn't go in but still an odd.

We also went to farm that had an abattoir on site, some of the girls who went in came out vegetarian. I always liked meat so decided not to go in.

Not one but two nuclear power stations. Trawsfynydd and Sellafield.

There was a new motorway built near us when I was at primary school and we went on a visit to the site, learned about how they were dealing with the tree dwelling environmental protesters and the things they'd put in place to mitigate the environmental impact such as wildlife bridges etc.

Very weird to be honest.

Other than that they were fairly normal trips.

To the House of Commons, we saw prime minister question time. Thatcher vs Kinnock. When Thatcher walked in you could feel the energy ramp up. It was around the time of Edwina Currie and the salmonella thing, she had a lot of stick.

We did this too! Was your primary school in the south of England?

We went to the Tarmac factory and I remember the highlight being coming back with a tarmac branded rubber and pencil!

I did this too and also remember the huge queue.
My little sister who was. 8 had a hand puppet that was like Rod Hull's Emu and she spent ages entertaining the queue.

I remember nothing about Tutenkhamen!

Port Talbot Steel Works in high school. A girl asked the coach driver to play her cassette on the way there that was essentially “I’ll be missing you” by Puff Daddy on repeat for two hours. The teachers opted for no music at all on the way home. I always think of that trip whenever I hear that song.

Not a school trip, but it was with Brownies… Brown Owl decreed at the start of the class: ‘today we will be making barley dollies, does anyone know where there is a barley field?’ Nobody answered, so I - an enthusiastic 9 year old- threw my hand in the air and replied that I did, but it was a bit of a walk away. Off we all set, with me merrily leading the way. We walked for 25 mins to find my beautiful field full of corn. Not a strand of barley to be found. I’ll never forget Brown Owl’s disappointed face as we all trudged allll the way back to the village hall. No barley dollies were made and no badges given out that day.

Also did it! Went on another day with my family too, not sure why.

In secondary school we went on a trip to a forest to cut down trees. I really enjoyed it.

I worked in a school in Salford. Loads of free trips on offer- pizza express to make a pizza. Tesco for farm to fork workshop. A local building site, the kids got free hard hats, hi vis jackets and gloves. Worst was the slavery museum at Liverpool docks.

School orchestral trip to Europe, performed at a psychiatric hospital in Germany.

A very random school trip to see The Jam. We were all very shocked Mr Wellar swore on stage. So sheltered!

Ice skating lots. The commonwealth building.

How things change, my DS 14 recently took part in a school play and his only word was a profanity!