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Where do kids from IoW go?

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Rapunzel15 · 13/07/2018 17:34

Not really an AIBU at all but its a burning question.
So pretty much all year 6 kids go to the Isle of Wight as their residential trip but where do the kids from the Isle of Wight go for theirs? Its eating me up inside not knowing!

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liz70 · 13/07/2018 22:34

That was 1981 and 1982 btw. Both times a week long, in dorms at a residential camp.

JaceLancs · 13/07/2018 22:35

Our local schools go to the Lake District

elephantoverthehill · 13/07/2018 22:37

Where are you staying Rapunzel?

CluedoAddict · 13/07/2018 22:40

I don't know any kids that go there on trips. Our schools go to North Wales. We found the IOW to be very boring we struggled to find anything to do.

Gurdyhurdy · 13/07/2018 23:09

Ooh I lived on the isle of Wight in year 6 and we went...... to the isle of Wight Grin just camping in a field and a day out at little Canada and another day out at ventnor botanical gardens and the rare breeds park!

Findingdotty · 13/07/2018 23:13

None of our local schools go to the Isle of Wight. Our school has been to Dorset, middle of Kent and Cornwall across the years. The Isle of Wight would have been closer. Grin

Lifeaback · 13/07/2018 23:13

IOW is definitely a common school trip for London/Home Counties kids- our school does IOW and when I was growing up in Hertfordshire we went to the IOW and Wales for our two trips.

Watching with interest to see where the IOW kids go!

elephantoverthehill · 13/07/2018 23:19

elephantoverthehill Fri 13-Jul-18 18:13:34
I can only speak for one primary school and one middle school.

Viebienremplie · 13/07/2018 23:24

Hertfordshire here, mine went to a place less than an hour away in Bucks... that was Y5 mind you, not sure what they do next year

NastyCats · 13/07/2018 23:28

The year 6s from our school (Greater London) go to IOW and so do most of the schools in our borough. When I was in Yr 6 (same borough) previous Yr 6 classes at my school had been but they changed it for our Yr to Broadstairs in Kent because of the Charles Dickens connection. Back then Yr 6 curriculum was Dickens and the Victorians. We were quite sad to miss out on the ferry, etc.

MyDcAreMarvel · 13/07/2018 23:29

Our year sixes go to the Isle of Man

MyDcAreMarvel · 13/07/2018 23:30

They fly.

ILoveToLaugh · 13/07/2018 23:34

Oh FFS, I posted earlier but wasn't clear, we're from the Isle of Wight and my kids went to Osmington Bay in Dorset! Grin

Springersrock · 13/07/2018 23:37

Oops, I posted earlier too, and forgot to put we’re on the Isle of Wight Blush

Both mine went to France

elephantoverthehill · 13/07/2018 23:37

IloveToLaugh we can keep on laughing from this thread Grin

ILoveToLaugh · 13/07/2018 23:40

Actually, now I come to think of it we had a choice with my youngest which was either London (including Harry Potter and Thames river boat trip but only three days because of cost or the PGL at Osmington Bay for five). DS voted for London so was a bit miffed but still had a great time.

melonscoffer · 13/07/2018 23:43

The IOW is really small.
Doubt you'd get all the end of primary kids on it at a similar time of year.Wink

elephantoverthehill · 13/07/2018 23:44

And *Springersrock. We who live on the Isle of Wight, might be a minority, but we will have our voices heard on a thread! Vive the Caulkhead except I am from Bristol about 20 years ago.....I guess I am still an overner.....

Sittingonaspindryer · 13/07/2018 23:49

Loving the idea that every Y6 residential in the country is on the IOW. It must be pretty crowded Grin

DS didn't have a Y6 residential that I can recall. Just been to France in Y7 though. Y2 went to a PGL place. Y3 to a Tudor mansion, Y4 can't remember and Y5 was on a ship somewhere.

Dreamscomingtrue · 13/07/2018 23:50

Melonscoffer

Where do kids from IoW go?
Springersrock · 13/07/2018 23:50
Grin

Yeah, I’m from Hertfordshire about 12 years ago so am too an Overner

And I came here for my top year junior residential (as did every other school in the area) - and I did wonder the same thing when I moved here

TigerTooth · 13/07/2018 23:50

We're in London and all of mine went on residentials to the IOW at the PGL - which they HATED because we have a house in the IOW so they know it like the back of their hand. Lots of IOW kids go to London or Cornwall.

Sittingonaspindryer · 13/07/2018 23:51

Actually Y4 might have been IOW Blush

ILoveToLaugh · 13/07/2018 23:52

I know a middle school used to take them to France and when the schools changed to two tier the primary my lot were at would have loved to but it was just too expensive! Elephant, totally agree about Corf. I know an Island secondary sent their year 7s there for a camp last week which I heard was fun. You have to laugh at the cost of getting a coachload of kids off Island - impossible. They just pile on the ferry now as foot passengers and pick the coach up the other side. I'm always surprised that the schools keep coming over, tbh, but I suppose PGL and UKSA absorb that cost.

melonscoffer · 14/07/2018 00:04

Dreamscomingtrue Grin
Wow, really amazing.
All the kids in the world on holiday at once.
I can see some of the parents being a little unhappy about the accomodation. And the lack of adult supervision!

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