Do you go on school trips?

[lisad123]

I have never been able to do school trips with dd1 as was always at work. Now I'm not and dd2 has a trip coming up. I have offered to go along and previously offered too. But everytime they say it's fine they have enough helpers ect.
Im trained, qualified, crb checked and first aid trained. I have never known any school to turn down offer of help before and feel its odd.

I am worried how they will manage dd2 if she meltdowns, becomes violent or does a runner (which is common for her).
Do I just leave it or do I push it?

Sometimes schools need/want helpers, sometimes they don't.

As long as they aren't turning you down and then sending out a letter asking for help, I wouldn't fret. It's great that they have the support in place. If there is an incident, then they will know they need more support next time. I'm a big fan of not getting involved in school stuff where dd2 is concerned, although this time I've been a bit pissy because they told me she could only join in the school ski lessons if a carer came along too... I do not like that one bit.

At my DS's school they would only take parents on trips who came and helped out in the class, it was seen as a sort of reward for their help. It may be something as simple as that. I did go on a few of DS2's trips when he was in Reception as his 1:1 before his statement, but after he had his own TA, they didn't ask me again.

DS school runs a sort of parent rota so that all the children get a chance to show off their parents on a trip :) that is in infants school though they do not do it from Juniors up.

Our school accepts parents on a rota (always more offers of help than help needed!) but it's school policy that we don't look after our own kids (apparently they're more likely to play up to parents), although they can sit with us on the way there and back. So far my kids (both ASD) have been fine since there are TAs, parents, and teacher so pretty well covered. I've been once with each on a trip and they've been good experiences, where I've actually been surprised at how well they've coped.

I went on one in the summer with DS2. They needed a 1:2 adult:child ratio for this particular trip and me being with DS2 meant that his usual 1:1 was freed up - though he insisted on holding both of our hands for much of the day!

I don't go for DS1, though. He doesn't like me doing anything around the school and is often pretty peed off if I have a meeting there or whatever. It's the Wrong Place for me!