School trips were very important to me

Furryanimal said:
Primary SchoolWe only ever had day trips…to Barry Island,Bristol Zoo or Weston-Super-Mare.
Places we went to all the time.
Did get a day trip to London in Secondary school.
Click to expand...
MY DD went to Wales for her week long camping trip..and for the life of me I can't remember exactly where...

I also paid for her to go to Ironbridge.. to Wookey Hole ... to Cheddar Gorge.... to name just a few
 

I remember my daughter going on a few, a couple times to a big water park, to Sea World twice, to "Mud Day" at a park that had a big mud hole (the schools here are still doing that one....it's immensely popular); they have a fire truck come and hose them down before they get back on the busses.

And, of course, there was always "Senior Night" at Disney, sponsored by the public schools and Disney. The kids arrived after the Magic Kingdom closed and they stayed til morning. Of course, the place was full of "zombies" by 3 a.m. and a lot of them were asleep on benches and the grass.

Field trips had tapered off a bit when my granddaughter was in school. She was a naturally-ranked athlete while still in elementary school and middle school, so her trips were mostly to competitions.

We always tied in something educational with the trips and she did her homework and did reports, so the schools were cooperative with her absences, thank goodness.
 
I attended an Academy from seventh grade through twelfth grades. If you know anything about attending an Academy, their belief is that every student will go down in the history book as some great scientist, musician or engineer.

To attend an Academy, each student pays their own way through school, including tuition, buying their own supplies, trips, lab equipment and any and all expenses associated with the teacher's curriculum and OK'd by the Academy's Board of Directors. Parents do have some say if they object to certain reading materials and classroom exhibits.

We took school trips from seventh through twelfth grades. Each year was something different. My favorite was eleventh grade when we went to Alaska to watch and learn how they mined and processed gold. It was a 6-day trip.
 

I went to a catholic school, and they only hired a few buses to take us to Cronulla Beach, some great distance from our school. We had to say prayers and sing hymns during the trip, took our own lunches and were not allowed to swim in the waters unless we had on a holy medal. This was once a year before the Christmas holidays. Needless to say, I only went into the water ankle deep. They had no idea of how to entertain the girls.
 
hollydolly said:
MY DD went to Wales for her week long camping trip..and for the life of me I can't remember exactly where...

I also paid for her to go to Ironbridge.. to Wookey Hole ... to Cheddar Gorge.... to name just a few
Click to expand...
You have reminded me Primary School took us to Cheddar once…and Secondary school did Wookey Hole.
I banged my head on the roof of the passage that took us to the big chamber.
 
School trips or class trips as they were more commonly called here were largely forgettable but a few were memorable for me. Living in the New Jersey suburbs of NYC, I can well remember going as a class to the 1964/65 World’s Fair as an elementary school student. A young futurist at the time, that really made an impression on me...

IMG_2382.jpeg

In high school, I was taken to see plays such as Hamlet in NYC. To the non-academically inclined, such trips were probably torture…

The marching band trips were wilder, and less heavily supervised. I marched as a high school kid in the DC Cherry Blossom parade. The big thrill was smoking in our motel rooms at night with contraband cigarettes…so rebellious and adult at the time! 😸

As a college student, there were more trips to NYC to see Shakespearean plays. I was once taken on a field trip to an actual field for a course on Ecology and Evolution! I still chuckle about that to this day… 🙂
 
I don't remember any school outings. I wonder if we had them.:) I do remember the many bus trips I made on a baseball team. What a trip. You go to the locker room and get dressed in a uniform with cleats on. Then walk to the bus ( with cleats everybody notices ), then take a seat with all your team mates. Getting back on the bus after a game can be a totally different experience. Win....happy guys, Lose....mad, sad guys.
 
While in high school, our History class got to visit The Bishop Museum on Oahu, Hawaii.
A small group had signed up and it was a nice trip to learn more about the culture of the island.
It was a short drive from our school and I am glad our teacher took the time to set it up.
 

You must log in or register to reply here.

Back
Top