to think that a school shouldn't ask for a voluntray contribution for a school trip to a place where the entry is free?

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HT has form for this.

Wondering whether to raise it at PTA or do my ususal ignoring of it?

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Oh chaos pmsl at the multiple posts!

They are not allowed to make a profit or cover non payers so it will be the true cost.

Not sure why you would raise it with the PTA, surely if you want to question it you would question with the head/teacher.

they may have to meet the costs of cover teachers

This is yet another reason why running trips is a mug's game. Stress, paperwork, no break at all for a full day (sometimes I don't go to the loo between 9 and 3.30), cleaning up sick on the coach and parents who think we are somehow trying to rip them off. I'd much rather stay in school. In fact, we were all praying for an infectious disease to strke us in the staffroom today (activity week is rapidly approaching).

Oh Chaos what phone do you have that does this?!

You certainly were being cyclical there, Chaos....

chaos, when are you gonna get a new phone?

I have spent hours phoning about 15 coach companies,trying to get quotes for 56 seater, 36 seater and 80 seater coaches- ( we will take 2 year groups to keep the costs down) and to be honest it's a bloody nightmare, they never get back to you, or they don't have available coaches, or they have no coaches with seat belts or they can't provide crb checks or risk assessments. The difference between the price of the 3 coaches is negligible as they use the came amount of fuel. And it generally works out at £10 a child minimum for the coach. I feel crap having to ask parents for the money, but the trips are great and the kids get so much out of them.

Ahhh... the sick on the coach. The last trip we went on, one little boy waited all day, til the coach had arrived back at school and stopped, and then emptied the contents of his stomach (ribena and pepperami by the looks/smell of it) five times.

I love school trips.