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Original poster

I am aren't I? Don't want DS to go on school trip he is too small!

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BupcakesandCunting · 31/01/2012 12:32

DS is in reception class (4 years old) and we got a letter home last week to say they are going on a school trip to Twycross Zoo. I offered my services as a parent helper as I do help out sometimes at the forest school/trips etc and his teacher said "No but thanks, we'll be taking members of staff for school so we're all covered!"

Errrr, you what?! How many staff are they taking to cover 60 4/5 year olds?! There's only ten teachers at the school anyway and I don't think they'll be taking all of the teachers out.

Oh help me and tell me I'm being a nob. I have visions of DS or one of his classmates inadvertently getting separated and lost from their class or whatever. In my defence, I'm not the only one I earwigged on some other mums this morning in the playground and they're a bit Hmm about it too.

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miaowmix · 31/01/2012 14:22

Didn't he ever go on a nursery trip? Dd went on coach trips from the age of 2 with hers. Having said that I think it's natural to worry a little... but let him go!

HipHopOpotomus · 31/01/2012 14:24

I am a knob too - but DD's (4) nursery trip to local theatre was the talk of her year. She went OUTSIDE of NURSERY without a PARENT!! They walked 700m to local theatre for Xmas show.

Pinkjenny · 31/01/2012 14:26

I was like this as well when dd went on her first school trip in December to see a pantomime. I actually approached her (brilliant, lovely) teacher and asked about supervision levels.

I do suffer from anxiety, though. She was absolutely fine and had a ball. Although I nearly had a coronary waiting for the coach to return.

Pinkjenny · 31/01/2012 14:30

Now I have actually read the rest of the thread and am going to spend the rest of the day wondering whether you are all joking about coaches returning a child short.

ExitPursuedByaBear · 31/01/2012 14:31

Let him go.
Then sit at home and worry all day.
It doesn't change though as they get older.

Pinot · 31/01/2012 14:32

You're not being a nob, dahlink.

You need to ask (and have a right to ask) about adult/child ratios, if they have hats and/or printed jackets to distinguish them as a school outing (my school does both now) and also what the schools emergency mobile number is.

I was so PFB with all of mine I refused to let mine go on any trips in Yr R unless I accompanied Blush So me saying you're not being a nob is actually against my own standards, so you may infact be being a monumental nob. Sorry 'bout that.

Oh God I also put all my phone numbers on a note in my childrens pockets just in case and have been known to follow them on a trip to the village to check all is OK.

FUCKING HELL I AM A NOB.

Original poster
BupcakesandCunting · 31/01/2012 14:33

"Didn't he ever go on a nursery trip? Dd went on coach trips from the age of 2 with hers. Having said that I think it's natural to worry a little... but let him go!"

Yes he went on a trip to the Health Caravan with Geoffrey the Giraffe.

That was set up on the school playground.

Grin
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Pinot · 31/01/2012 14:33

And I've arrived at the school gates a full 30 mins early to see when the coach arrived.

NOB.

Pinot · 31/01/2012 14:34

And I've given helper parents my phone number just in case

NOB

Pinot · 31/01/2012 14:35

I even talked to Dh about how I'd like to invent a tracking device that could be implanted in a child (like a dog getting microchipped) so I could always know where my children are

NOB

Pinot · 31/01/2012 14:35

I have to shut up now, or namechange

WhatIsPi · 31/01/2012 14:36

The Health Caravan with Geoffrey the Giraffe sounds fucking terrifying

Original poster
BupcakesandCunting · 31/01/2012 14:37

Pinot Grin We are birds of a feather, you and I.

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stealthsquiggle · 31/01/2012 14:39

[sob]

Pinot · 31/01/2012 14:39

Nobs United?

PatriciaHolm · 31/01/2012 14:39

Pinot - you need one of these

www.maplin.co.uk/loc8tor-plus-key-pet-and-child-tracking-device-99293

(aware she is not helping)

Pinot · 31/01/2012 14:40

It's too late for me Bups and stealth, but save yourselves!!

Pinot · 31/01/2012 14:41

OH MY GOD!

i dooooooooooooo!!

Buppers!! get one too!!

Pinkjenny · 31/01/2012 14:41

I have often thought of a tracking device also. I genuinely think it is an excellent idea.

Pinot · 31/01/2012 14:42

Ohhhhh only 183m distance. So I'd still have to stalk Grin

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BupcakesandCunting · 31/01/2012 14:42
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Pinot · 31/01/2012 14:42
miaowmix · 31/01/2012 14:42

Geoffrey the Giraffe? Aww Grin.

You're not a nob for worrying, I think we all do, but you know you have to let him go!

Denj33 · 31/01/2012 14:44

My teenage kids have IPods that actually DO have a tracking device, I can actually check where EXACTLY they are :)

(and I do- all the time, there's none of this " I'm going to my friend X's house but I'm really planning on sneaking off somewhere I'm not supposed to be)

Most primary schools have visors with the school name on and at our school they have a laminate round their neck with the teachers mobile numbers on in case they wander off.

MrsDeeBee · 31/01/2012 14:46

Bups

Whatever you do, don't make the mistake I did and read Louise Candlish's novel 'Since I Don't Have You'.

That's all I'm going to say.

Someone really needs to invent a permanent tracker for children. Wink Smile