Ski trips

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Dd has received a letter Re a ski trip. It is for 5 days excluding travel days. I think it is good value but dh is less convinced.
So is £800 about right for a skiing trip including equipment and lessons and full boards and travel etc.

Sounds as cheap as would ever be feasible to do - will be interesting to see if anyone has ever paid less as so far everyone has described paying more. Ski trips across 3 DC have all been 4 figures for us.

Thank you for your offers. The helmet hire is included anyway. We will probably buy her things as she is a certain shape but thanks again.

I find myself disapproving of school ski trips...
Educational?
Inclusive?
Nah....

It's not just the ski trips, it's all the trips proposed in secondary (at least where I live).
There is nothing that annoys me more when the school is happy for the children to go away for a week, twice in the year (if you are happy to pay!) during term time. But if you ask to take the child out of school to do the same activity (skiing) on the same week, it is refused .

Meanwhile in the classroom, nothing happens because so many children 'are away'

Our ski trips were always in school holidays.

Seems about right for school trip to be honest, we've never done ski trips but have done lots of others for a short week about that cost :)

I am the only one of three siblings to ski and the only reason is because I was allowed to go in school ski trips. I would not ski if it wasn't for the school trips and I am eternally grateful that I was able to go

I find myself disapproving of school ski trips...
Educational?
Inclusive?
Nah....

Agree

That's reasonable I'd say. My DS is going next year, as are many of his friends at different schools, and they're all 1K+

Educational? nah probably not but they're doing a day in an historic city visiting museums on the way. Sharing a room with a bunch of other kids is probably an education in sharing and cooperation ...

Inclusive? also probably not, though I believe there are subsidised places, but as others have said, it will be the first and only time many kids will get to try skiing if their parents don't ski, for whatever reason.

Fun? Definitely

A school near us does expensive trips.
They do offer 30% off a trips for kids on PP.
Still not going to make say a 1000 pound trip affordable.
This school a state school but considers itself more upmarket to nearby ones. Certainly its school trips, insistence on school marketed tablets etc encourage a certain sort of parent.
I digress.
In comparison op, this trip a lot cheaper than examples from school I am thinking of but will be out of reach for many. Or maybe not- depends on school demographic I guess...

If you break it down it is actually quite reasonable - ski hire etc.

I actually think it teaches a number of things - how to deal with risk/living together/listening and following instructions/working as a group/gross motor skills/balance

It isn't nice when people are left out - hopefully children whose parents cannot afford it are still able to go. (speaking as a child who was in that position and didn't go....)

The costs do look reasonable for skiing but skiing is a very expensive school trip. I remember a teacher at my school trying to convince me to go on the ski trip (they assumed that because I was clever, I must be well off) and I said "But it's £500" (which was a lot of money back in the early 90s). I don't think I ever mentioned it to my Mum, it would only have made her feel bad.

Hi. Tbf the school us a sports college so a level and level 3 students can use it for their practicals but yes in essence it is a fun trip.

yes it's good value and a great experience if you don't / can't afford to ski as a family.

shocked at some of these france costs though. dd's school trip to Whistler in Feb half term was £1300 everything included - direct flights, transfers, lessons, ski hire, meals, evening activities etc etc...

Drifting dreamer - couldn't agree more

Well I have convinced him and it is booked. Dd is thrilled as a close friend is going too