What random school trips did you go on?

[DhIsAJudge]

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)

Why were you shouted at for giving your son a Uht milk sachet??

@DhIsAJudge I can't really explain..I just know that I was in the habit from whenever we went to a cafe and when I had a cup of tea, if it came with those small sachets of milk and if my son asked I would always let him have the milk. And so I was almost on autopilot when we were at this museum and it was our lunch break so all the adults had access to tea making facilities plus these bowls of milk sachets. My son saw them, he asked and I said yes..

That evening one of the teachers called me at my house and asked if I'd done it. I can't work out if he saw me or if someone told him . But anyway I got told off . made to feel bad,bad, bad. And didn't do any more school trips when I knew that teacher was going to be there.

A day trip to Western-Super-Mare. We did nothing but sit on the beach, from memory.

At least you didn't get stuck in the mud😄Last time I went to Weston, my shoe came off in the mud and I was wearing tights ... it was not good.

Yes it was!!! The stupid thing is we didn’t get to go back in to finish it. Obviously because of the fire 😂 it was good though the bit we saw

I keep laughing at this 😂 it’s so off the wall. How was the Pret A Manger ?

Weird thing about St. Oliver Plunketts head is that at some point in order to preserve it it was coated in creosote . Horrible looking black thing.
On the Catholic theme we were taken to the cinema to see GodSpell in the 70s and had to write about it . Rather than retaining any religious enlightenment all of us wrote at how clean NYC and how there were no crowds which was obviously just for the movie .

In primary school around bonfire night we went to this exhibition at the local library where there were pictures of men, women and children who had been severely burnt as a result of fireworks, some had missing fingers and limbs. It was incredibly gory and I feel traumatised by it still, 30 years later. I asked my friend (also from primary school) and she also remembers it vividly.

Edit- maybe it wasn't that random but I doubt they would allow it today!!!

In primary school, went to Lowestoft fish market. Spent the day slipping and sliding on discarded fish guts and heads. Never ate fish again.

I would have loved a trip to Tesco to watch donuts being filled with jam.

Living in a village near the Gower our Primary school trips were to beaches in Oxwich and Port Eynon and a week of tramping around various wooded areas near Parkmill. We went to Afan Argoed and learned about caddis larvae. There were also trips to Pensycynor Wildlife Park (it closed years ago) being told by the owner how many flamingoes had been killed by a fox, trying to get the mynah bird to swear and avoid Percy the pelican. We would all come home with either a peacock feather or a plastic snake.

I loved our trip to the water treatment works. They'd landscaped the surrounding area into a nature reserve so a decent part of the day was dedicated to pond dipping. Gotta love a bit of pond dipping.

Trips to the Gurdwara were always class too. They fed us excellent curry and rice.

Our school took my whole year group I've skating once. Our town didn't have an ice rink so it was a big trip down the motorway. We got there and the ice rink was closed, so we went bowling instead.

In primary school we went to the water treatment works that were on the other side of the road to the school.

I just remembered going ice skating in y7! I remember my dad waking me up at normal time the next day and I just fell back asleep and he only noticed I was still asleep and had missed the school bus when he decided to go into my room randomly and open my curtains. I still remember how gently he woke me up again and then said I could have the day off school because he was having chemo and would be home later that afternoon. So I stayed in bed until he came home (it was 2002 and he had cancer don’t judge him for leaving an 11 yr old home alone for 3 hours) he woke me up when he got home and we spent all afternoon watching James Bond films on the sofa and kept it our little secret when mum came home 😂🥰 he died the following year and it’s one of my happiest memories of him. God I miss him.

sorry! Tangent !

Coca Cola factory. This was seen as a real treat following our year 6 SATs. It was so fucking boring. The best part was getting to choose a free drink at the end, I went with Powerade.

Maybe it was Liverpool Council policy back in the day to instil a bit of culture into us city kids!

In the 60s in primary school we also went regularly to the Philharmonic and a couple of times to the Everyman Theatre - both on the same street of course.

DS went to the recycling centre. They had their packed lunch there and said it stunk, so he didn’t want to eat.

I went there aged around 10 - think it was for a week. I remember a village called Mold which we kids thought very funny!

we went to Blyth Power Station and Kielder Reservoir on different trips. Exciting times!

Someone persuaded our biology teacher that a trip to the slaughterhouse would be educational. I suppose it was. And the walk was nice, it's on the edge of town so quite green and leafy.

But once we were there it was very real.

Someone as in a random classmate, not an adult.

Sixth form A level French exchange trip to Brittany, age 16. Our day excursions included a visit to a farmers’ cabbage auction, a tour of the local cigar factory and an afternoon at a place where they process seaweed and package it for the supermarket where it’s sold for eating.
I actually rather enjoyed the week!

That reminds me of a tour to a Cognac distillery on my school trip to France. It was reasonably interesting but what I remember most is the racks on the coach clinking like billy-o every time we went round a corner with bottles of Cognac the teachers had bought.

Me too as part of my history GCSE! I mean it was ok but the way My history teacher sold yoy would think he was taking us to Disney land🤣

Well, the name sounded so fancy at the time, we had visions of it being some sort of mock up French cafe- but inside the shopping centre. French menus, French staff and obviously French food.

NO. Just a bog standard sandwich shop. I only recently learnt that its a British company, not French at all.

Were you at school in Liverpool in the 60s/70s? My parents took me to the Philharmonic and the theatre but school never did..

Yes, the 60s.

The Philharmonic was mainly in primary school - we went quite a few times and even once sang there!

I suppose it was the luck of the draw whether schools had a Head/staff who were interested in the pupils' development.