School Trips

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The ones I enjoyed were through my primary school.Breaside in Devises twice and a place in minehead somewhere(oxen head or oxen dean).These were places you stayed for a week and seemed to be a mix of educational activities and fun.Always the sorts of things you did not learn or do in school.Have quite a few memories of them and really did enjoy my stay at these places.The only other trip I can remember at primary was to the science museum in london.

Secondary school was much diffrant.I went onto field trips as these were funded by the school as they formed part of the lessons when it came to writing up field reports in Geology but the main trips to paris we could not afford,so I ended up doing two weeks on a farm mucking out for nothing.Hated the experiance.Everybody else was having fun and enjoing themselves.The smell of ankle deep cow muck and getting covered with it certainly sends home the message of class in society especially to a kid in his early teens.Before then it never really dawned on me about those that have and those that don't.Felt rather bitter about that experiance.To make matters worse when I did get back to school everybody had great storys to tell of their trip and this trip seemed to make stronger bonds between my mates.Things were never the same after this happened as I became more of an outsider and started to drift in other directions.I ended up having to write an over large essay on what I did and it felt like I was getting punished because my parants were not rich enough to fund such a trip.

You earning well now though? Been to Paris since? It's not much - its okay, apart from Ze French! I'm joking! Its an okay place, well, can be in my experience...depends where you go in France really...

[battyrat]

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The ones I enjoyed were through my primary school.Breaside in Devises twice and a place in minehead somewhere(oxen head or oxen dean).These were places you stayed for a week and seemed to be a mix of educational activities and fun.Always the sorts of things you did not learn or do in school.Have quite a few memories of them and really did enjoy my stay at these places.The only other trip I can remember at primary was to the science museum in london.

Secondary school was much diffrant.I went onto field trips as these were funded by the school as they formed part of the lessons when it came to writing up field reports in Geology but the main trips to paris we could not afford,so I ended up doing two weeks on a farm mucking out for nothing.Hated the experiance.Everybody else was having fun and enjoing themselves.The smell of ankle deep cow muck and getting covered with it certainly sends home the message of class in society especially to a kid in his early teens.Before then it never really dawned on me about those that have and those that don't.Felt rather bitter about that experiance.To make matters worse when I did get back to school everybody had great storys to tell of their trip and this trip seemed to make stronger bonds between my mates.Things were never the same after this happened as I became more of an outsider and started to drift in other directions.I ended up having to write an over large essay on what I did and it felt like I was getting punished because my parants were not rich enough to fund such a trip.

[Pinney68]

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My primary school took us to Llandudno on the train in 1978. I remember the train was like the Hogwarts Express (compartments with 6 seats) and the teacher hated it. The main thing I remember about the Llandudno trip was that we were only allowed an hour when we got there as the train had taken so long to get us there. Not very good planning there!
We also went to the Severn Valley Railway museum and had to choose a train and draw it - boring! After that it was Ironbridge Gorge and hiking in the Welsh Valleys in a day. All very 'educational' and not much fun.
The memories of the travel sick child came flooding back after reading previous posts. Did anyone else's school bring a bucket of sand to throw over the puke in the hope that the smell would disappear?

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Went to Hampton Court with my school around 87/88. HMS Victory and The Mary Rose around that time too. We also went to the Natural History Museum and Science Museums in 1990. Corfe Castle in around 1993/4...amazing scenery. I didn't really like school trips - you couldn't relax as you would around family. When I was doing my A - Levels we went to Perth and the Tate down there I think...stayed the weekend.

[shilton dipper]

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School Trips

Did you have a favourite school trip?.............For me there are two that stand out.......In the last year of primary school I went to Stratford-Upon-Avon....... to Anne Hathaway's cottage and on another trip I went to the Wyvern Theatrein Swindon to see Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour Dream Coat...........the costumes were probably the most lavish I had seen at that age.

[angie-baby72]

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in primary 7 we went to a residential school in the borders called st columbus's's for a week. in december. it was freezing, we had to do mad educational stuff like interviewing a local vet with a tape recorder and walk up the cheviot hills. twice.. of course i was the numpty that fell over on the way down.

then in the 1st year of secondary school i was lucky enough to have my name pulled from the hat for the week in Le Touquet. that was fab. you could hire little pedal cars and zoom around the streets, there was a big swimming lido on the seafront and a chocolate shop called le chat bleu. the window of our dorm in the hostel led onto the fire escape so we would all pretend to eat the awful food at dinner time then 2 of us would sneak out to a local pizza place and get enough grub for the entire floor! i remember having a lot of freedom on that trip. i swear the teachers spent more time in the pub than looking after us (which was nice!) but then a couple of the older boys got into trouble for buying cider and cigarettes on the second to last day and we all got grounded... happy days

[Seventies Child]

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I loved school trips. Remember those old coaches that has those prickly velour seats? The teachers doing head counts, getting told not to open any windows in the safari parks, packed lunches and when you got home all the stories you had to tell your Mum about your day out. Aw. I'm feeling quite sad now cos I want to be a kid again. LOL.

[vanhelsing]

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I think the place we all went to was in York - it was some weird (but interesting) 'ride' where you sat in this car and went back in time to - actually I don't know where. Maybe a couple of centuries. They also recreated the smells.

And that's all I remember hehe.

That'll be the Yorvik viking museum. Been there myself.

[zip55]

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My school owned a farm in Horton-in-Ribblesdale which they converted to accommodation and we used to have weekend school trips away there, and go fell-walking and caving.

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In primary school we'd have a trip every year, usually somewhere local, visited Falkland Palace (I got told off for yawning, was only a P3), Camperdown Park, Letham Glen. In P6 we got to go to Edinburgh to a museum.

Best was out P7 trip to Valkenburg. Got a coach to Ramsgate, then Sally-line ferry to Dunkirk, then up to Holland. Was a total ball, visited De Efteling theme park, trip up the Rhine and to Cologne.

[ann22]

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We were taken to Dublin Zoo, Mosney (similar to Butlins) once. Most were educational like early Christian ruins like Monasterboice and Melifont Abbey. We were also taken to weird places...St Michan's church in Dublin. We were taken on a tour of the crypt. They have decayed open coffins with skeletons in it, no joke. I was brickin' it... and St Peter's church in Drogheda where we were shown st Oliver Plunkett's head in a case, gospel truth, a real head. I had nightmares about it for months.
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[Richard1978]

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I remember going on many trips, but the most eventful ones were the times were we got to stay away for a few days.

[mazzer]

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I remember 2 trips to the seaside at "Sandyhills" in Scotland with buckets and spades, then several local educational trips to ruined monuments and abbeys.

One class got to go an SS Uganda educational cruise, but I was too young to be eligible and they never repeated it. There was a planned trip to Germany I was going on, but it was cancelled through lack of interest. Then 2 visits to London, one at primary school, one in senior school. On the senior one, my then penpal (sadly now deceased!) came to our hotel and picked me up in his car, we drove to Richmond and climbed into the back seat and snogged for 3 hours solid. Happy days!!!!! (And yes, in case you were wondering, we ONLY snogged!)