School trips overseas cancelled

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Sorry if this has already been asked, but ds is going away in July overseas with the school. The last payment is due now. So far we’ve heard nothing from the school.

Any idea when trips are cancelled until? Do I pay this last payment?

No advice but I'm in exactly the same situation.

I wish the school would just say something! Funnily enough it was actually due on the 5th but I held out waiting for something to be said, and normally I would have a reminder email, but nothing.

Same here, only no reminder for payment yet so I wonder if they're negotiating with the tour company (eg to postpone the trip) or just waiting to see what happens in the next week or two. Feel like we can't plan anything at the moment and we're living day to day.

Can’t I ask where your dc is going too? Canada here.

My daughter is going to Europe in May and it's still on.

Uk government cancelled all school trips abroad

I'm running a trip and the first I heard of this was today. The travel companies aren't saying anything. It's really difficult.

My DD due to go to Europe in May, final payment was end of Feb, we are all paid up. Heard nothing from school though and apparently a teacher was today asking pupils who had not paid it all to hurry up and make their final payment. Pretty confused here, hoping for comms from school ASAP.

Schools will be waiting for official documents to come through, then their insurance companies will kick in and only once there's enough information for them to know what's going on will they be able to let parents know.
Think of it as a long chain where the last two people are school and parents.

There's not much the schools can do than take each piece of information and update as it comes.

It was only announced late this afternoon, government website only added the info this evening. I'm not sure how you can expect schools or travel companies to be able to respond immediately? No one can cancel without losing money unless insurance companies are able to pay out.

The announcement was only made at 5pm though so schools won't have known today. We also have one paid for for May, I am assuming it won't happen. I really hope we get some money back.

If we loose the money we paid, it’s a bloody lot we can’t afford to loose, but in the grand scheme of things I’d rather my ds was safe. So if I didn’t have to pay this last remainder at least over saved 1/4 which is something.

But I was wondering, if for example it went ahead, and say my ds was positive, and others were negative. If he was quarantined, would we as parents have to fly over to be with him? I know that may sound obvious, but in all honestly, we don’t have 4K odd to spare to pay for flights, a hotel, food etc.

School hasn't told you yet because they simply don't know what the situation will be in May and beyond , how can they know

I could well be the teacher asking people to hurry up to make final payments! I was at home when I heard the news. Also its just advice from the government not a ban, which puts me in a difficult position. I couldn't get through to the travel company.. It's a nightmare.

If you would rather he didn't go can you just pull him from the trip?

I wasn’t aware that the announcement came late today. I hadn’t seen the news, only a screen shot someone sent to me saying trips had been cancelled. I thought it was this morning.

My ds is supposed to be going to France in 3 weeks, so far it's still on

My ds2 aged 19 is meant to be going to New York in two weeks time. We need a yes or a no.

"So far we've heard nothing from the school"

Give them a chance, the announcement was only made after 5pm today.

I expect they need to make some calls and take some advice but they'll let you know what you need to know.

Theholidayarmadillo4 I do want him to go 100%. It’s a trip that we as a family could never afford to take him on. So I wouldn’t want him to miss it all. Plus he’s a teen, fit and healthy.

I guess it’s the questions I have around if any of the party becomes ill with it. How will be handled with regards to quarantine etc. It may be an obvious answer that everyone knows, but right now I don’t know how it would be handled, and it’s questions like this I have.

I’ve done school trips, but only in the UK. So I know how it goes as far as risk assessing etc. But that’s where I am stuck, as this is an unknown. Then questions pop intoned my head like ‘what happens if the teachers go down with it?’, (chances of all of them going down with it at the sameness time is slim I know!), and those sort of worst case scenario questions.

I last had a conversation with a secondary teacher who’s a friend and taking her GCSE group abroad, last week, and she said then she had no idea what was happening and how they would risk assess it. So I was hoping that maybe we had a little more info by now.

Boris Johnson only announced this at 5pm today. Schools won't have known before the end of the school day, so no chance yet to gather themselves and respond.

We are in the same position. DD is all paid up to go on a school trip to Mexico in July.

I will be phoning the school tomorrow to ask what they believe will happen, once they have had a few hours to digest it.

Schools know very little too. We are supposed to be going on a trip next week but the trip company keeps saying it is still going ahead. We need to wait for the company to cancel the trip so we can get full refunds for the parents. If we pull out ourselves, all the money will be lost. I imagine the staff at your DC's school are in a similar situation.

Our school sent an email this evening cancelling all planned school trips over the Easter holidays.

You have to really feel for the schools trying to sort this mess out

Don't phone the school tomorrow Topseyt. If they're not due to go until July what possible difference can it make to you if you badger them tomorrow or wait until they're ready to tell you?

What could they tell you now about a trip in July anyway?