To ask what the worst school trip was that you ever went on?

[MrsKiplin]

Mine was a trip to Belgium. I had a sickness bug the whole time and missed everything!

God I went to Wigan pier on a school trip too -
I remember wondering why did they takes us on such a shit trip?

Secondary school was better - alton towers in year 10 - utter chaos. The poor teachers.

am crying laughing at the previous poster who said their school didn't do trips because the woodwork teacher wanked off a tramp. As an adult, you can hear the fraud in it, but as a student, school lore is school lore.

I was well into my mid 20s when I worked out that in a liklihood the woodwork teacher didn't actually wank off a tramp, but it was accepted as a fact and no one seemed to question how likely this course of events was: 'oh I have a group of 40 unruly students waiting on the bus for me, but before I get aboard I just need to toss off this homeless gentleman.'

A trip to a clothes and costumes museum, when we were originally supposed to be going to Alton Towers, but some parents complained that it wasn't educational enough

Secondary School trip to British Museum. I went to school in Central London, and there was a bus pretty much door to door, took about 40 mins.We were all old Hand’s at using public transport. Bus arrived, or rather 3 at once. About 60 assorted teenagers dispersed onto 3 buses. Teachers had no idea what to do. We chopped and changed buses every stop (old Routemater buses you could jump on/off with the open platform at the back). Only about 1/3 of us made it to the British Museum.

A trip to the local gas works. Green & white school dresses were filthy by the end

I do remember wetsuits being pricy but they arw kind of essential for water sports in the UK. Even camping and walking is suppose some people think being cold, damp and itchy for a whole week is character building?

DofE camping hiking type thing. Awful. Went with girls who didn’t like me. Needed the loo all night but too nervous to go. My hips were all bruised from carrying the backpack. It was madness to go.

@Elementtree- I had to endure Hartlepool Power Station too, twice!

At primary school we went on a trip to the sewage work across the road. Literally walked across the street and had a tour.

Ooh, I just remembered another one... we went on a biology field trip during sixth form where we had to study the ecology of a river at different points along its course, so measuring how many water insects and plants were in it etc. We started in the middle of the woods where it was beautiful and idyllic, and the river was teeming with life. One of the students got bitten by a caddis fly larva but that was his own stupid fault for goading it.

Anyway - we ended up in this extremely poor and run down place called Skinningrove, where there was a disused iron mine. The oxide had leaked out into the river and turned it bright orange. It honestly looked like there was a stream of Heinz tomato soup running through the town. We had to wade about in it looking for non-existent life forms, and somebody managed to fall over and swallow a load of diseased water (apparently it did not also taste of Heinz tomato soup).

To top it off, some locals came out and threw rocks at our minibus as we were leaving because they were so sick of jumped up little students coming to their home town on purpose to gawp at how shite it was. I can sympathise now but it was terrifying at the time.

I rather liked Hartlepool Nuclear Power Plant. I went there on a trip from the Physics department. I thought it was kinda cool but part of that was i'd been playing a lot of Half Life and kept imagining alien zombies popping up everywhere.

The Mayor's parlour.
Basically a wood panelled office.
Our form teacher was married to the Mayor at the time and decided it would be a good morning out.
So we got bussed two miles into town, looked at a wood panelled office and came back again.
The railway museum would have been spectacular in comparison.

Gracemarks that is truly awful!!

Possibly outing but an orchestra trip to Paris- A Concorde crash landed on our hotel!

Luckily, our ferry had been delayed so we hadn't got there yet.

As a teacher a 24 trip to France, the teacher who was giving me a lift fell asleep and was late. the coach that was meant to leave at 2am didn't turn up so we missed the ferry. Then while in a French shopping mall (for lunch) a girl in my group had a seizure. I speak barely any French (was there as it was a year group thing so with my tutor group) so I was trying to speak to French security guy. The French teacher running the trip had to go with her to hospital and stay until her parents got there then had to make her own way back to England

Went to the lakes for a week. Me and two others got food poisoning very very badly and it was absolute hell. Cue big investigation when we got back and something similar happened with the next group so the school stopped going there..

Awful

Waitrose. We went on a school trip to Waitrose. My mum used to drag me there most evenings so this was doubly horrendous.

Went on a school trip to france in 2006. The food at the hotel was so bad i had bad diarrohea the entire week, so did a bunch of my other school friends. Totally ruined the trip as i was constantly cramping and having stomach pain. Within 2 days of returning home i was back to normal again thankfully

French exchange with secondary school. I was 13 and having dinner with my exchange family, some really chewy beef stew. Managed to get meat stuck in my throat and started choking. The dad had to perform the Heimlich maneuver on me to get it out. Horrific!

Also managed to drop and smash the mother's very expensive perfume all over the bathroom floor on the first day (the bottle was so pretty and I just wanted a closer look!). She was not happy.

During the same trip me and a friend were in a music class with our exchange students. They wanted to know an English song and we were made to stand in front of the whole class and sing! I still can't hear Queen, we are the champions without cringing!

@emmeyebea Stansted Mountfitchet by any chance?

My worst was in primary school, we went to fly kites on Southend beach but the tide was out so it was all boggy and my welly got stuck and I fell over trying to pull it out. No help from teacher or parent helpers, I was completely covered head to toe in wet muddy sand

Stanstead Mountfitchet by any chance?

Was it that obvious?

A trip across the Humber Bridge. 4 hours (both ways) on a coach for a 10 minute walk across a bridge I'd already walked over.

A trip to Robin Hoods Bay where a teacher threw a crab at knowing I was terrified of them.

A local zoo.
Whatever coach school had booked failed to turn up so a replacement was quickly found....a green army bus of some sort.
It didn't have enough proper seats for everyone so it was three to a seat and a few of us, myself included, got to sit on some metal barrels at the back of the bus. Fortunately the zoo was only half an hour away as it was the most uncomfortable place to be ever.

I could imagine the uproar if that happened now. 😂

@emmeyebea I remember being equally disappointed

School CCF (army cadets) trip to a barracks somewhere near Dover, at the end of year 9. On the last day, we took a daytrip on the Eurotunnel to Calais, which finished with us being let loose in a shopping centre. Some total dickhead in my group decided to shoplift a bottle of aftershave. His parents were absolutely minted, he could easily have afforded it, but he really just wanted to show off in front of his mates. He got caught and detained by the shop security guard, and then aggravated the situation by shouting slowly in English at them.

As I was generally considered a goody-goody, I was nominated to go and tell our terrifying Sergeant Major that my idiot fellow pupil had got himself arrested. I was so frightened, but fortunately he realised that it was not my fault.

The boy got expelled but then let back in after the school received a large donation to the new library building...