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£60 is a lot for an overnight trip for reception kids, AIBU?

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BupcakesandCunting · 31/03/2012 19:43

DS's reception class can go on an overnight stay at a camp type thing (they sleep in actual dormitories, it's a bit like an army barracks) I remember when I went in the 1980s and it cost my mum about tuppence ha'penny. Got the letter yesterday and it's sixty quid! Shock

That includes transport (mini bus 10 miles up the road), dinner and breakfast and the "activities" and the overnight stay.

I think that that is effing loads for a reception overnighter. AIBU? There will be parents who can't afford that. :(

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landofsoapandglory · 31/03/2012 20:04

DS2(15) is going to Cambridge University (stealth boastWink) next week for 3days, 2 nightsfor a residential Science masterclass and that is £50. That includes all meals including a formal 3 course meal, presentations, and all activities and experiements. We do have to get him there though.

I think £60 for one night is extortionate!

LindyHemming · 31/03/2012 20:07

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BupcakesandCunting · 31/03/2012 20:07

Our school was a shag-a-thon for teachers. The art teacher was boffing history teacher, the biology teacher was boffing the English teacher, the maths teacher was boffing an upper sixth student...

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TheBigJessie · 31/03/2012 20:10

Nah, I think that's a fair price, actually. Should be more, maybe. They're going to looking after 30 five-year-olds overnight!

I think you should pay £60 plus petrol money, dinner money, and art-resources money.

vogonmothership · 31/03/2012 20:12

YANBU
far too much money and too young. Would have no hesitation in saying no.
DS was still regularly bed wetting then

CocktailQueen · 31/03/2012 20:12

Wow, am amazed that the school is thinking about taking reception kids away over night!!!! but yes, it's lots of money. :( on both counts!

DorcasBouvier · 31/03/2012 20:14

Mine is going on one in May (he's in year 4) and it's £48 for one night, which I thought was OK, considering the activities they'll be doing. If it had been an overnight trip in reception I wouldn't have let him go anyway.

Aribura · 31/03/2012 20:21

Making it sound like us West Midlanders were raised by wolves, Bupcakes. Grin

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BupcakesandCunting · 31/03/2012 20:22

Wolves? Bit posh ay they? I was raised by Staffies.

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Aribura · 31/03/2012 20:24

Sorry, moved daan south, been getting airs an' graces. :(

OrenishI · 31/03/2012 20:26

Bloody ell. Too expensive and too soon. As my mother would say "What's the world coming to"

neverputasockinatoaster · 31/03/2012 20:27

DS is in Y2 and, for the first time, his school is taking Y2 on a Residential. It is one night but they have 2 days of activities, all fodd, travel and accomodation and it is costing us £40.

DS has behavioural issues and I thought that the school would ask me not to send him but they really want him to go although they do have our number on speed dial!

£60 is too much and I'm not sure I'd have sent DS when he was in Reception. As a teacher I think the teachers running the trip need a medal!

LingDiLong · 31/03/2012 20:29

YANBU, sounds expensive to me. My DD is about to go away with Brownies and it's cost us £40 for 2 nights, including a boat trip. Although I don't think there are any transport costs.

neverputasockinatoaster · 31/03/2012 20:29

fodd = FOOD obviously.

Aaarrgghhh. (No wonder literacy is going to the dogs, standards of spelling among teachers these days,blah blah....)

UnChartered · 31/03/2012 20:33

you must have read the note wrong, the £60 is a rough estimate of how much the fuel will cost to go pick up your DC up in the middle of the night when they are sobbing uncontrollably because they miss you Sad

VivaLeBeaver · 31/03/2012 20:36

I'm paying £370 for a 4 nighter so I was going to say that £60 a night is a bargain in comparison. But my dd is in year 6. Surely overnighters for 4yo s is bonkers.

PomBearWithAnOFRS · 31/03/2012 20:40

We paid £110 for a 3 day/2 night trip to Robinwood for DD so I guess £60 for one night is probably about the going rate. It is a lot of money though, and I wouldn't let my reception age DS go - it's too young I think -although that might just be me, knowing my child as I do.

Xnedra · 31/03/2012 20:46

Dd1 went to Kingswood in February. Only cost us £25 for an overnight stay, she's in yr 2. Strange that there is so many different prices, she loved it, but I would of thought reception is young. A friends DC went in yr1 and I thought that was young.

SuePurblybilt · 31/03/2012 20:50

Can't get over the overnight for four and five year olds Grin. Wow.
So no helpful ideas re the price, sorry. Erm, YANBU?

Aribura · 31/03/2012 20:51

Maybe it's because I was 'ard as nails as a kid Grin but the parents will probably miss the kids more than the kids miss the parents! Even at that age...controversiallll.

undercoverPrincess · 31/03/2012 20:52

I wouldn't want my 5yo to go :(

TheSecondComing · 31/03/2012 20:56

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HalloweenDuck · 31/03/2012 20:59

My 4 year old ds is still in pull ups at night. (sodden every morning) and wakes with severe nightmares 2-3 times a week! Has a bed with 20+ teddies! I can just imagine my 6 year old dd going, but she is very mature.

Eglu · 31/03/2012 20:59

It does sound incredibly expensive. DS1 is going to Cub camp in June for two nights and it's £45. It is also about 30 miles away.

I can't imagine a reception aged child going away overnight though.

UnChartered · 31/03/2012 20:59

i reckon the inflated cost is to pay for all the help

what exactly will 4/5yr olds gain from being away from home for a night?