When you volunteer to help with a school outing

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do you expect to be put in charge of the group that actually has your child in it?

Or, do you accept that you have agreed to help with all the children and shouldn't be matched to your own?

When I help on a school trip, I see it as a way to get to know all the other children in my son's class, after all I already know my son. It's nice if we are in the same group and he behaves, but not the end of the world if we are apart. As long as we can have a chat over picnic lunch and throw smiles at each other, that's fine.

Yes, that's how I'd look at it, too. A chance to see all the children and how they interact.

It's obviously down to the school's policy whether or not they put parents with their own children. At my dcs school, they usually do, but at the school where I work, they wouldn't.

Anchovy - most schools jump at the chance of having a dad there, as most of the staff and helpers tend to be female and it helps to have someone to take them into boys' toilets etc.

Babygrand, yes - DH suspects he will spend most of today in the gents toilets with a random selection of 5 year old boys. (For anyone only reading the top of this thread, this is not a dodgy comment!)

I understand from DS (5.6 and in Reception)that yesterday's illicit game at school was to go into the (mixed) toilets a few at a time and see how much toilet paper you could stuff into your mouth and how loudly you could sing with a mouth stuffed full fo toilet paper. I think DH is going to have a busy day!