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

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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!

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. :(

Pombear, my Dd is going to robin wood in June- the same night as the Stone Roses gig, which is convenient .

My aforementioned comforter requiring, dummy sucking 5 year old is also still in night time pull ups.

I just can't understand teachers wanting to take kids that little away overnight!! Surely there's bound to be at least one who starts sobbing for his/her mum/dad, and at that age they're likely to set loads of others off crying!

Kingswood is cheap out of 'season' and prices rise the nearer to summer you get.

Hopefully the staff will be on triple pay
Who in their right minds would a) volunteer to take them and b) as parents even let them go?

Half of them will still be in nappies overnight won't they?

Bloody hell. DS is in Reception and is still in pull-ups at night.

Has S.N and is regularly awake at 3 a.m for the day.

I would offer my next-born child pay the £60 for this and will be suggesting it to his school asap

I hate to break this to you LeeCoakley but the staff get no pay for going on our residentials-if I were to go as a ta I wouldn't even get paid for the hours there above the 12 hours a week I'm paid for.

That's disgraceful, considering you are responsible/on call for the children 24 hours a day. I work in an infants' school and the situation has never come up but if we are on a school trip and the trip is late back we are told we can claim overtime, so I kind of assumed there would be some sort of renumeration for an overnighter. Do you think teachers actually get a choice on whether they go or not? It's such a huge responsibility, especially for children as young as the op's.

Reception children? ye gods! the year one class still have some children who have to be prised off their parents in the mornings I can't imaginge the horror of haveing 3 or 4 unconsolable 4 or 5 year olds in the middle of the night.

I think reception far too young for overnight trip - not appropriate until year 3 or year 4.

re: cost.

That's probably what it costs. Buses are v expensive even for short trips. Maybe could cut the costs if the parents could drop the kids off if it really is that near.

having... grrrrrrrrr
imagine

oh I give in! throw me to the pedants...

My teaching colleague used to take pupils to the Isle of Wight during the May half term for ten years and didn't receive a single hour / day in lieu.

As a newly lone-parent of a four month old baby I was told to enrol on a compulsory eight-week course held on Saturdays. No pay, no childcare reimbursement, no choice.

I told them to piss off, but lots didn't.

My daughter did it at 4 with the nursery (Kingswood also :) ) it's certainly not for all young children but for her she was fine :)

£60 is a lot though

I still can't believe overnighters at four / five. Want!

The year group I taught did a weekend when they were nine and there were always a few mothers ringing in a panic about teddy bears and their sons and how they would cope. I remember one lovely lady crying with relief when I suggested a splash of her scent on a handkerchief for her DS to take with him for comfort. She was a working woman (like me) and was so grateful that she cried and then so did I...

I am with you Hula. I am a kindergarten teacher and no way would I take my class overnight.

Nor would I let five year old dd go, unless she really really wanted to.

Sounds like a really badly thought out idea. What is the purpose of it?