There was always stuff on residentials that I wish one of the parents would have mentioned, asked, or even just noted on the form
Child who came with 10+ daily medications in their wash bag that we did not know about until the third night when they couldnt find a toothbrush so we went looking
Child who did not know how to dress or undress themselves. (Not an issue, we would have helped, but a heads up would have been good, before child got trapped in a jumper and had a panic attack)
Child who had never slept with the main bedroom lights turned off, was not willing to compromise with nightlights or leaving to door open to a lit hallway
Child who slept on a floorbed at home because they rolled around at night, so multiple times a night fell out of bed, and cried in suprise and woke up the whole dorm
Child (aged 10 ish) who had never had a shower without help and did not know how to wash their hair or what any of the stuff in their washbag was for as it had been bought specially for the trip and they were not familiar with the bottles
Quite small Child who liked to sleep inside of their duvet cover with it buttoned up (thought child had run away or somehow got lost)
child whose family did not wear pyjamas at home, so did not send any with their child for the trip. Very confident child was sent with friends to get into pyjamas and come back out to watch the film and returned naked to watch Nanny Mc Phee. Child did not understand why they could not just sit in the hall naked.
All would have been fine if we had been told in advance or had it been put on the form, children under 13 do not remember to tell us any of this stuff. When we rang home to ask parents all seemed suprised that we did not know their child did that, or that it was not common behaviour we should have been expecting