to ask for school trip money back

[georgiadronea]

DD was sick last night, so although she is absolutely fine now and perky as anything she can't go to school for 48hrs after the last time she was sick (so will now wednesday if no further sickness).

Problem is she was due to go on a school trip tuesday, I don't want to be too outing but the trip was between £15-20, I'm a single parent so this was a bit of a squeeze but I put aside a little for the few weeks and managed to pay it at the last minute.

Now she is unable to go this seems an unnecessary expense that could go towards something important or just a little something to cheer her up after missing the trip but having not been in this position before WIBU to ask the teacher if this is possible??

My DS was sick after lunch at school so they sent him home. He was absolutely fine all evening but I had to keep him off school as per the rules. By the next afternoon he was bouncing round the house so I asked the school could he go in the next day as he obviously wasn't sick. They said yes and agreed with me that he had wolfed his lunch down and it hadn't sat very well in his stomach. He went to school fine and no sickness

Sometimes I am sick if I gobble my food or it mixes badly in stomach. I am then absolutely fine

There is D&V and then there is a vomit as a one off

@RexManning we don't get universal free school meals in Wales, I pay £2 per day for my KS1 child's lunch.

Our school does however provide packed lunches for the free school meal kids who receive the pupil premium whenever they have school trips.

Woosey - no need to be so offensively rude

I'm surprised at how many people think all children in the UK get free meals in infant school - WALES are not included in this....

also - surprised at how many people saying send DC to school within at 48hour period. It is there for a reason...however annoying - please don't send your kiddies in after they've been sick or had d&v

The high cost (for a trip with no transport) suggests it’s a theme park or another activity-based day. OP was wise to keep her child at home if this is so. As to the original question, no YANBI. Just ask. From your posts you sound uber-reasonable & I’m sure you’d come across as making a hopeful request that they may decline if they just can’t help. It would be nice if they could so so can do something to make up for what’s been missed.

I've had this twice. Once my DD had to miss a day trip that was already paid for. I was in school for something else and just mentioned the trip and was told they don't refund as they'd already paid it out and it would be too much work. This was a few weeks before. Another occasion was a residential costing around £300. DS had an an anaphylactic attack two days before and his consultant said he couldn't go. We received a full refund for the trip and DS got the money.

I wonder why schools in the eighties weren't ridden with stomach bugs and closures , i remember kids being sick in the luncheon, corridors, toilets or playground and the caretaker putting sawdust on it and coming back to clean it up later.

Good grief! School budgets are tight and all but no school can’t afford to refund £20! We always refund parents whose children are off sick during a school trip. It’s hardly going to happen often ..... in fact sickness rates are remarkably low on school trip days.
Please don’t send her in with a sickness bug - not only will she not enjoy the trip - but if she’s still infectious, she’ll give it to everyone else. I do wish parents wouldn’t do this!!

I honestly don't know if the school will refund or not as I've never had anybody ask. I think it may depend what has already been paid for and how often they are asked for refunds.

Just FYI plenty of schools have only a 24 hour exclusion policy after d&v so the 48 hour rule is hardly written in stone.

My children’s school always refunds trips when absent. I only found out as an envelope came home with the money in after she missed a pantomime one Xmas from being sick. I hadn’t even thought to ask as if assumed not so was pleasantly surprised to get the refund. Schools do sometimes subsidies the cost of trips anyway or price them in a way that covers non payers.

School secretary here. Depends on what kind of trip it was. If tickets to somewhere were booked and bought in advance my school would not refund. But if its somewhere you go and pay on the day we would refund.

I wonder if those parents keen on not following 48 hr rule would be equally emphatic if their had lessons they didn't particularly like that day?