Year 6 residential costs

[KingoftheNorth1]

Would anyone be willing to share how much their schools charged last year / are charging this year for school residential trips. Particularly keen to hear what people had to pay for Year 6 activity type weeks.

Totally get that costs have sky rocketed, plus insurance is likely very steep so, so please don't get me wrong, I'm not unrealistic, but just trying to work out if the almost £850 we have been asked to fork out is fair/representative! Haven't been through the process before so don't have any particular frame of reference.
TIA to anyone happy to divulge!

2 nights at PGL. £280.

We’ve just paid £1400 for 7 nights skiing in February - year 9.

Then they sent out a letter last week for a day visit to London - £334. Yeah, don’t think so.

£220 for 2 nights, £850 does seem an astronomical sum to expect parents to afford, very insensitive of the school to be offering a trip that expensive

Ours is also £850 but they are going to France for 4 nights. I wouldn’t be happy paying that for the UK

It’s often the transport( coach )cost that bumps it up. Lots of companies where we live folded and the costs are now mega.

OP that’s the amount I would expect. We’ve been £380 for two nights, three days.

We had a year 6 residential 30 years ago but back then the. councils has their own facilities for these and only cost our parents £40 for the week, I’ve just looked it up and found that council sold its centres off in 2014 :( My grown up daughter went to a similar place where we were living in about 2012 and it cost £125 for the week and pupil premium children didn’t have to pay at all. My other older DC went to a different school and they had a mon-fri PGL trip around 2015 but that was nearly £400 and we couldn’t afford it over the payment schedule demanded. They were the only child who couldn’t go (quite an affluent area) there was no flexibility in when the payments were due, we were told flexibility only available to people on benefits. Our younger DC has just been on their year 6 residential which cost £220 for a 2 night PGL trip, they had an amazing time and very reasonable payment schedule with lots of notice before first payment required

Is it a private school? No way most schools would charge that. Tend to be in the 300-400 bracket. And normally parents will have an option to pay off chunks of it since last academic term. If it were £850 hardly any of our children would go - most parents just don’t have that!

Also school PTAs often have a fund so that all children can access school trips

£320 for 5 days, 4 night

£391 for 4 nights about 3 hours away by coach. They didn’t do all the activities that were available though.

My school has just returned from a PGL in Torquay, we live 3hrs away. It was Monday - Friday and cost £400. Our school always goes in September due to the high costs in the more popular months. That said, my yr6 went to Lynmouth in July, Monday - Friday for £410.

£330 for 2 nights.

We paid £260 plus £10 spending money. I'm sorry but I think doing something that costs £850 is plain wrong, for a year 6 residential. If that's what the trip you are planning costs you plan a different trip! We would struggle to afford £850 and we are fairly affluent I would say. Even if there is some financial help for the poorest students, there will be many families who can't afford this and definately aren't poor. I would be tempted to be calling the school out on this.

£300 for 3 nights at PGL.

I don’t know how much the school I’m a governor at charges but I know it would not be that much as it borders an area with many families on low income. When my kids were there and did their trip (8+9 years ago), they went to the Lakes which is under 2 hours from here by coach. Pretty sure it was under £200 for 3 nights. The place they go now isn’t even an hour away. £850 is ridiculous.

We are paying £220 for 3 days / 2 nights. In previous years the school has been able to subsidise the trip so it was a similar cost for 4 nights. This year they can't do that so they have cut short the trip to keep costs down. The kids have also raised money to help those who are unable to pay the full cost so hopefully everyone will be able to go. We are in London so not sure if that increases the cost.

Ours is a PGL mon-Fri in March which is costing £585 and quite frankly I’m livid at that cost. They are literally going 15 mins down the road

Blimey that is quite steep. We paid £220 for 2 nights 3 days

£850 seems crazy. I just paid £250 (in instalments) for 2 nights in Norfolk.

That’s really expensive, my DD is year 6 and doing 2 nights at PGL, it is £350.

That’s extortionate. I’ve paid £700 for my 14 year old to go to Malaga for 4 nights with school !

It’s £850 per head for 40 children? So the school has organised a trip costing £34,000 for four nights? Wow… this place saw them coming

Ours was £476 for Monday to Friday in Stratford upon Avon

Mon-fri £0 !!!! My child is in a Specialist resource base and unbelievably school cover the cost for the yr 6s. There are 3 pupils this year who could go.
£350 for the mainstream folk....which i've paid previously for my older children.

2 nights and I think it’s £350
my year 10 daughter is going to Iceland for 3 nights that’s £1200!