trips in reception

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Does your school have regular trips in the reception year? For example trips to the park, zoo, nature reserves, theatres, cinemas, museums (wow, there is so much children can do away from school, isn't there?). Our school focusses on trips for the nursery children and then there isn't anything for children in reception (apart from a trip to the theatre at Christmas). I think it's a shame particularly as the nursery children seem to go everywhere AND I do feel 4 and 5 year olds should get to see more of the world than a school building! Perhaps this is the norm for the reception year but I just wanted to know what it was like in other schools.

we have no nursery trips but all other school years have trips.

when in reception ds1 went to the Fitz Museum in Cambridge, can't remember what his other trip was.
In Yr1 they went to the Duxford Air Museum.

My mum used to take her yr1/2 class to the beach mostly, they went on a narrow boat once.

Ours have done an autumn walk and the Science Museum

Ours also do an autumn walk, they have a walk to the village post office to post postcards (that they have written themselves)home and they also have a coach trip for a morning at a local children's farm.

at ChasingSquirrels DCs visit to the Fitzwilliam - I love that place!

DD had an Autumn walk and they are off to the Science Museum before Easter and then, after Easter, having a trip to Pizza Express to make Pizzas. Plus the Panto with the rest of the school at Christmas and a visit to a local high school for a PE session run by the year 7s.

So far in reception they have only had 1 trip to the theatre - I think they also get taken to the beach once in the summer but that's it. No trips in nursery here either...

So far our Reception children have been to the seaside, to the theatre, round the village, to church several times and to Morrisons! They have at least one coach trip per term and we are looking forward to the whole school trip in Summer!

CaurnieBred and displayuntilbestbefore - those trips sound lovely. Do you know who decides which and how many trips to go on? Is it up to the head or individual teachers?

Not sure. I imagine it's a combination of both - head chatting to teachers about what places are interesting and relevant to the curriculum.
If you are keen for a trip for your DC then it's worth raising it at the next parents evening, or with the PTA if there is one.

My dd1 in reception hasn't been anywhere. Is this unusual? I hadn't really thought about it - although maybe the logistics of taking 90 reception children anywhere proves too much of a challenge!

My DD (in reception) has been to a christmas show, to the local park, to a pet shop (as part of their Pet Animals theme) and would have been to a science museum but snow caused them to cancel it.

They seem to do a trip per term.

DD had loads of trips in reception - to the Spar, the Post Office, the bus station (with ride back in bus of their choice), a nearby farm, plus walks along the estuary fairly regularly.

They also had a proper 'school trip' when all the kids went at the end of the summer term (to a petting farm).

DS's Reception do lots of local "outings" e.g. walk to look at different types of houses, visit to church, singing at nursing home, walk round allotments.

And one "big" all day trip involving a coach at the end of the year.

We have a very small school - only 3 classes (R-Y2). I belive that it is the teacher that proposes the trips and the Head agrees. I think they just have to make sure that there is enough support (inc CRB checked parents) to accompany them. I suppose it helps that DD's teacher is also the Deputy Head!

CaurnieBred - wow, that is lucky! I love smaller schools, there's much more of a community feel and obviously more opportunities for trips! I just feel that school is such an enclosed world and it would be nice if the children got to see more than the school building!!

Our Reception don't have trips till the summer term when they have two - Kew Gdns and Garsons Farm (pick yr own) so I guess they must be studying growth that term! I just presumed the logistics of taking large numbers of smalls out to start with was tricky. Also, loads of theatre groups, music, authors etc go into school to run workshops with them in the other two terms - they seem to have something special happening just about every week. If it bothers you, ask the class teacher. How many are in the yr group - maybe it's much bigger than the nursery group was or the Jan intake isn't settled enough yet to go out and trips are in the pipeline for next term??

TRL - it sounds like your school do great things with the children and it is fun and varied. There is no longer a Jan intake and there are 60 in reception (2 classes) but I assume they would go on separate days otherwise that really would be a lot of children! Just 8 more pupils than there are in the nursery so that can't be it. Perhaps there are going to be trips next term.