To ask how many of you pay for your children's school trips.

[psiloveyou]

This week I have paid
£10.50 for ds1 trip
£14.80 for ds2 trip
£5.00 for dd3 trip
Now dd4 has come home from nursery with a request for £17.80 for a trip to a local farm.

All the letters state the money is a contribution but if enough parents don't pay the trip will not go ahead.
We are lucky enough that we can afford it. I have no problem with parents on a low income only paying a small percentage.
I just wonder if there are any parents out there who can afford it but choose not to pay.

inchoccyheaven: actually they do quite often have trips at the same time. They attend a small village school, and every other year DS1 and DS2 are in the same class. Very rarely is it only one of them going on a trip, the majority of the time it is all three. Last year they were all in the Foundation Phase (DS1 in Year 2, DS2 in Year 1 and DD in Reception) so had all trips together.

So no different to triplets really.

psiloveyou it was an incredible opportunity for him and I did not grudge a penny. And he's used footage from the videos he took while there as his exam project for AS Media Studies. I wish they'd done trips like that when I was at school! And I'll be more than happy to pay for my dd and other ds to go too when their time comes.
There's no way I'd pay £1400 for any of my kids to go to Vegas. It's not gonna change their lives or their perception of life (might turn them into gamblers lol).

what on earth is educational in Vegas?

Yes Jemima but I am guessing you chose to have them that close whereas you don't chose to have multiples

I pay, regardless of whether or not I can really afford it. Dreading residentials, will be saving for a while for those, and they are quite cheap up here compared to dome of the prices floated on here :(

My dd thankfully doesn't like sleepovers so refused her yr 6 residential trip (£380 for 3 days) and doesn't want to go on her proposed yr 8 one either (in yr 7 now)
Trips generally work out around £20 for day out somewhere

We always pay. The school subsidises those that can't or won't, and as a governor I am aware of the repeat offenders who won't pay when they very obviously could. But there is nothing we can do about it (for the educational trips), much as it grates.

We have a very active PTA who will fund eg coaches for some trips, to reduce costs for the parents (it is always the transport that costs the most).

For the non-compulsory trips where non-payment does mean the child will not go, it is amazing how many of the the won't-pays or can't-pays suddenly will and can!

We're not giving the option. You pay or your child doesn't go. The most i've paid is 180 for a 5 day residential trip. The letter came home informing us of cost 2 weeks before the trip with an option to pay in installments. 2 weeks to pay in installments! How I laughed.