To ask what and how many school trips private schools go on?

[MixWhisk]

I was just wondering what the difference was in educational trips between state and private schools?

My DD is in a state primary and goes on one trip a year in the summer term. First year was the seaside, second year was the zoo, third year was a viking museum.

What types of trips and how many a year does your private school child go on? Pre-covid, obviously

Our state children go on way more than that though, so you need to ask about them too if you want to get a proper comparisons.

Ok, good idea. What trip has your child been on? Are they in state or primary and how old were they?

My state children do 2 a year. When I was in private school
Probably 2-3 a year

Private School nursery age so 3-4 year olds went to small local zoo, then a cinema screening in local cinema.

Post covid no outings.

when you see the uproar from some parents who are offended/shocked/ in a rage/fuming when asked to pay for their kids share, it's astonishing state schools still manage to organise them at all.

Around here it's 2 or 3 a year, 1 or 2 very local, the 3rd one a real trip - distance increase with age.
Reception goes on a few outings a year, walking, and 1 to the local zoo, up to year 6 who goes away for an entire week once or twice a year.

pre-covid obviously.

Private primary, probably about 5 a year, mostly walkable from the school to museum, riverbank, cathedral, town trail, pizza express (!) for a cooking class, and in the higher years 5/6 there's a residential and a couple of one night sports trips.

DS is now in hear 10. They have had no trips

Used to be one per term, museums, library, aquarium, beach, religious buildings, zoo, theatre, cinema

Nothing since lockdown obvs.

State primary. We are in London though and they mostly used free public transport. Coaches are prohibitively expensive. We usually paid a token amount for each trip, a couple of quid.

Trying to think back, I think there was one to a local farm, Year 3. One to British Museum Year 5 an one to see something at the South Bank Yr 6. Oh and a week at some camping thing year 6. That was about it though. I think the years above and below went on one or two a year though.

We do three a year, 2 local and one abroad. Sometimes 2 abroad and 2 local. Private school.

State primary, usually one class trip per year.

Sorry - daily trips I would say about 3-4 a year. On top of foreign trips.

Private school was 3 trips a year pre-CoVid. (Lower years)

They go to places like a performance at the theatre and get ice cream, Lego land, nature discovery centre type thing, Windsor castle, science or natural history museum. Day trips on a coach and packed lunches.

In reception DD had two - one a couple of hours to the local church (they walked) which was free, the second to an RHS garden for the full day, on a coach.

Year 1 interrupted by Covid but they'd got to march without a trip do expect it would have just been one in the summer term.

I used to teach secondary and that's much more variable as there's no (in my experience) set number per year, it's just what your teachers can find time to organise. First school I taught in always ran a trip for all year 7s to the theatre at Xmas, because it was a tradition the head of English started and we used to get the NQTs to organise it if we had any in dept. I would be on the lookout for interesting plays to take sixth formers to - I took a group from West Yorkshire to London on the 6.30am train to see a production of their pretty obscure set text at the national, for example, because it was such unbelievable good fortune for it to be on. They were a nice group so I also took them to Liverpool to see a Pinter play because I thought it would be good for them to see something outside of the curriculum. But trips are a gigantic pain in the arse to organise, even more so since they changed the rules to 'voluntary contribution' instead of 'the cost is'. I was young and pre kids then, I had more time and inclination to spend hours and raise my stress levels through the roof.

My DS is older, 6th form in a private school. He went to San Francisco in February. Geneva last year. There's a ski trip and a charity related trip to South Africa every year.

State school, sorry.

Private school - last year my dd10 went on 3 trips to museum type places (3 a year is normal for the school I’d say), a residential for 2 nights in a nearby county with outside activities and a Shakespeare workshop in London. We pay extra for all trips if that makes a difference.

I think the regular team sport matches against other schools is more of a difference to our local schools who seem to do a similar number of trips.

My sister DC are at private school yr6. They go on one day trip per term and they went to a museum last term. No masks. The school itself is chaos with bubbles mixing and parents gathering, kissing & hugging. They even go in to the school buildings with no distancing. It’s like COVID doesn’t exist

Private secondary rather than primary, but we went on some great trips!

Day trip to a supermarche in France
Overnight trip to a croissant factory in France
Week long sailing course in France
Week long trip to Seville, Spain for Semana Santa
Two weeks in Cuba for those studying Spanish GCSE
Ski trips to Switzerland
Lacrosse tour around the States

Looking back, it must have put my parents under so much financial pressure which I'm sure at the time, I really didn't appreciate.

Overnight trip to a croissant factory in France

This is the most amazing excuse for a jolly ever! Love it.

Local state primary does a yearly 2week exchange to its "sister" school in Italy.
They go to a city panto every winter and have at least one summer day trip to the beach or Alton towers. Year 6 go to Disneyland Paris every year.
The state (Catholic) high school is amazing for enrichment trips. There is always something going on from DofE, music tours, geography trips to Iceland, history to the battlefields, physics to Cerne, religious retreats, skiing etc. We managed to spend at least £1k every year on school trips but for lower incomes they are subsidised and parents only pay 10percent.
I really appreciate the opportunities school provided.

@SirSamuelVimes

Overnight trip to a croissant factory in France

This is the most amazing excuse for a jolly ever! Love it.

It was brilliant! Although 15 years on, I still feel horrified remembering the massive slabs of butter that were folded into the pastry!

In non-COVID times at secondary - yearly compulsory team building residential in the UK. Year 8 only - First World War battle fields - compulsory.

Optional:

• Alternate year Iceland Trip
• Annual Wimbledon Trip
• Alternate year ski trip to the US
• Alternate year history trip to the US

At Primary

• compulsory year 3 and 6 activity residentials
• optional year 6 ski trip

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None atm, but state primary usually 2-3 a year up to year 3, then 1-2 a year for years 4-6.

Our dc at state school go on 3 'proper' trips a year related to their topic. So the sea life centre, a castle, a stately home, the zoo, etc. They travel by coach.

They also go to a pantomime each Christmas (not this year) also by coach. On top of that they do about 3/4 local nature walks each year plus 3/4 local trips to churches, or the library. They visit the local church at Easter and Christmas.

In years 5 and 6 they do a residential. We're not there yet but I think the first is approx 2 nights and the second 3/4.