School children given a tour of Westminster
STUDENTS from three local secondary schools were given the opportunity to see democracy in action during a tour around the Palace of Westminster with Cherwell District councillors.
Full story: http://www.banburyguardian.co.uk/news/local/school_children_given_a_tour_of_westminster_1_3222724
Private school scholarship scheme aims to mix London's ethnic groupsInner-city children will have chance to attend City of London school, whose headteacher has warned about racial divisions,
Full story: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/oct/19/private-school-scholarship-scheme-london?newsfeed=true
WIRRAL students have launched a fundraising drive for a relief trip to a poverty-stricken village in Morocco.
Full story:
http://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/9311922.Wirral_students_plan_Moroccan_poverty_relief_trip/
Denver Mill sail falls near Norfolk school pupils
Debris from Denver Mill sails fell to the ground near a group of school pupils.
Full story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-15179697
Boost for school adventure trips
Date: 02 October 2011
By Chris Marshall
Education correspondent
ADVENTURE trips that allow Scottish pupils the chance to get out of the classroom to try outdoor sports are set to benefit from an overhaul in the way they are licensed.
Moves are under way to scrap the complex licensing system blamed for a decline in the number of outdoor activities offered by schools.
Full story: http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Boost-for-school-adventure-trips.6846170.jp
STUDENTS are gearing up for their school's fifth visit halfway across the world to experience life in a disadvantaged African village.
Twenty Year 11 students from English Martyrs School, in Hartlepool, will jet off to Kartong Village, in The Gambia, in February next year.
They have been raising money to support their African link school, Darsilami School, and worked with the Jole Rider and Bikes4Africa charities to raise cash to ship bikes out to the village.
Full story: http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/local/on_their_bikes_for_africa_trip_1_3822232
Sri Lanka trip a 'life-changing experience' for Barry students
TEN Barry students have described a charity school trip to Sri Lanka as a ‘life changing experience', writes Luke James.
Teachers start school trip sing-along ... to drown out sounds of stowaway under bus hammering on the floorChildren join in Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life and If You're Happy And You Know It
By Daily Mail Reporter
Teachers calmed children returning from a school trip to France by conducting a Monty Python sing-along when a suspected stowaway began banging on the underside of their coach.
pirits not dampened by Glastonbury-style camping
YEAR 5 and 6 pupils from South Kilworth Primary enjoyed a very short school trip – to their school field.
Afterwards Victoria Hawkins and Florence Holmes wrote a report about the memorable camping trip:
On Friday, June 24, Years 5 and 6 went camping on the school field. Some of the children’s parents let us borrow their tents and helped us pitch them after school.
Full story: http://www.harboroughmail.co.uk/news/local-news/spirits_not_dampened_by_glastonbury_style_camping_1_2818017
Stirling police order school trip buses off road
Officers spent a week at the safari park examining the buses
Police carrying out safety checks on school buses ordered three off the road immediately after finding "severe" defects.
Full story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-13941317
Series of car boot sales fund school trip to Africa
Published on Saturday 25 June 2011 09:02
PEOPLE are invited to take part in a series of car boot sales to help fund a group of Paulsgrove students’ trip to a deprived village in Africa.
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Girls' take school trip to say goodbye
June 22, 2011
Pupils about to change schools took their farewell trip together to the Medina Valley Centre on the Isle of Wight.
Full story: http://www.getwokingham.co.uk/news/s/2094904_girls_take_school_trip_to_say_goodbye_
Pupils tell of pile-up horror on motorway
PUPILS have spoken of the horrifying moment their dream school trip turned into a nightmare when their coach was involved in a motorway pile-up that left 50 people injured.
Full story: http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk/news/9095616.Pupils_tell_of_pile_up_horror_on_motorway/
Bus driver fined as he dropped children off after school trip
A coach driver was hit with a parking ticket when he pulled up outside a school to drop off more than 70 children after a day trip.
Schoolchildren go the distance for school trip fundraiser
Schoolchildren jumped on their bikes to raise money for a school trip to France.
Are these overseas school trips just pricey package holidays?
Fans say they give children useful lessons outside the classroom, but Genevieve Fox is not sure.
Dog attacks girl on school trip in Wolverhampton Park
A schoolgirl has been attacked by a dog during a school outing.
Full story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-13528583
Young entrepreneurs raise funds for school trip
YOUNG entrepreneurs from a school in Winsford have come up with an innovative way to fund a fun day out.
Full story: http://www.winsfordguardian.co.uk/news/9049678.Young_entrepreneurs_raise_funds_for_school_trip/
School trips are unlucky victim of efficiency drives
By John Freeman Tuesday, 17 May 2011
The squeeze is on for anything that does not appear immediately important. For colleges, enrichment funding is being slashed. This is funding that has contributed to a wide range of important discretionary activity, from sport to family education.
Full story: http://www.cypnow.co.uk/Education/article/1069982/School-trips-unlucky-victim-efficiency-drives/
As we approach the time of year when many children are travelling on school trips and family holidays, the Health Protection Agency is urging parents to protect their children against measles
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HPA Reminds Parents Of Importance Of MMR, UK
STUDENTS from East Bridgwater Community School have returned from a ski trip on the snow covered slopes of northern Italy.
Full Story: http://www.bridgwatermercury.co.uk/news/9020712.Stunning_scenery_for_school_ski_trip/
By all accounts, the Dartmouth High School Orchestra's trip to Austria last month was a resounding success.
Full story:
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110509/NEWS/105090334/-1/NEWSMAP
Thousands of children are missing out on trips to Britain's great museums and galleries amid cuts to school budgets.
Full story: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/may/08/school-field-trip-funding-threat
School trip back to medieval times
9:30am Wednesday 4th May 2011
YOUNGSTERS got a flavour of life in medieval times during a colourful school trip yesterday.
Every pupil from Carnagill Community Primary School, on Catterick Garrison, took part in the visit to Richmond Castle.
Full story: http://www.theadvertiserseries.co.uk/news/northyorkshire/9004754.School_trip_back_to_medieval_times/
'Illegal immigrants' found clinging to bottom of coaches returning from school trip to Disneyland Paris
Haringey garden centre becomes top school trip venue
London borough of Haringey as it has been approved as a venue for school visits.
The Wolves Lane Horticultural Nursery in Wood Green has been awarded a Learning Outside the Classroom quality badge.
Health and safety bureaucracy ´disrupting school trips and activities´
20th April 2011
More than half of teachers believe that schools are becoming more sensitive to health and safety concerns, according to a new survey, which is leading to bans on traditional playground games and declines in school trips.
Full story: http://www.sfs-group.co.uk/Healthandsafetybureaucracydisruptingschooltripsandactivities/3206/?parent=11
Peer pressures heads to maintain school trips
Health and safety red tape and rising fuel prices are threatening the future of school trips, denying hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren the only opportunity they get to experience nature at first hand, a Liberal Democrat Peer has warned.
Full Story: http://www.prweb.com/releases/prweb2011/4/prweb8315217.htm
Pupils raise £10k for African trip
Apr 12 2011
PUPILS in Coventry have generated £10,000 to fund a trip to a South African school thanks to donations from local shops.
School trip lad behind at motorway services
A BOY was left stranded at a motorway services after his school bus drove off without him.
The third-year pupil was part of a group from Lanark Grammar School who were returning from a trip to London.
School ski trips for scores of Wareham and Ferndown school pupils abandoned
Full story:http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/8963319.School_ski_trips_for_scores_of_Wareham_and_Ferndown_school_pupils_abandoned/
Broughton Gifford teenager makes a splash for Bolivia trip
Keen swimmer Megan Trollope, a pupil at The Corsham School, is aiming to raise £4000 so she can participate in a school trip to Bolivia next year. On March 26 and 27 Megan completed 1408 lengths of the pool in 10hrs 15m, across two sessions of swimming ...
Teacher leaves girl aged 7 behind at swimming pool
AN INVESTIGATION has been launched after a seven-year-old girl was left behind on a school trip to a city swimming pool.
Full story: http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/topstories/Teacher-leaves-girl-aged-7.6746892.jp
Walks in the country 'should be part of school day' Wildlife presenter Kate Humble says walks in the country should be compulsory for UK school children.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-12891822
chool trip teenager leaves dead baby in hotel room
Ysgol Cerrigydrudion pupils in Belgium school trip Chris Body, one of the Kings of Wessex students disappointed after their school skiing trip was cancelled PICTURE: FRAN STOTHARD RoSPA HELPS TO KEEP SCHOOL TRIPS RUNNING SAFELY IN SCOTLAND Full Story: http://www.rospa.com/news/releases/detail/default.aspx?id=957 Keeping school trips on the agenda in Scotland is a key priority for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents and the safety charity has launched a new series of bespoke workshops to provide teachers with the skills and knowledge to run safe and exciting trips. Norman Baker pictured first on the right on the back row with his team of young footballers and with his wife Molly A teacher who will be remembered by hundreds of pupils for starting a successful football team and leading many happy school trips will be buried today. Full story: http://www.northantset.co.uk/news/local/teacher_who_brought_sport_success_has_died_1_2464757 Lyme Regis: Race against tide to save injured girl A TEENAGER on a school trip was airlifted from a Lyme Regis beach with a serious head injury after falling on rocks. Full story: http://www.bridportnews.co.uk/news/8884222.Lyme_Regis__Race_against_tide_to_save_injured_girl/ School students enjoy life on the piste A FEBRUARY skiing trip has once again allowed students to enjoy life on the piste and also experience the ups and more importantly the downs of the winter sport. Full Story : http://www.saffronwaldenreporter.co.uk/sport/school_students_enjoy_life_on_the_piste_1_816372 Scottish Government announces funding for Auschwitz school trips The Scottish Government is to pay almost a quarter of a million pounds to ensure Scottish children do not forget the lessons of the Holocaust. A memorial at Auschwitz Birkenau II. Bedside vigil for injured Newton Abbot ski boy, 14, injured in France Boy injured in ski lift accident fights for life. PRIMARY school pupils got the chance to see how computer games were made during a school trip. As part of the tour the group learnt how to make Education City and even got to speak to staff in the company's American office in Chicago. Marketing executive Sayle Davis said: "The staff all loved having the children in and really enjoyed talking to them. It was interesting to have a students' perspective of Education City." Full story: http://www.stamfordmercury.co.uk/community/transatlantic_treat_for_children_1_2451796 Norwich students take life-time trip to New York Youngsters are embarking on a school trip to the big apple to gain inspiration for their art, photography and textiles exams. The trip involves visits to New York's famous art galleries, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Museum and will help the students complete their projects entitled ‘Exploration and Discovery' and ‘Imagination and Mystery'. A Level student Lucy Dinsmore, 17, from Dereham, said: "I am ridiculously excited about going to New York, I have always wanted to go and it is an amazing opportunity to experience not only the best art museums in the world but also a different culture." To see the students' blog visit: http://citycollegeinnewyork.blogspot.com field trips 19 January 11 19:34 By Katherine Sellgren Health and safety red tape is stopping school children getting out on regular science field trips, a report warns. The Association for Science Education (ASE) says too much attention to risk assessment means science field trips are in long-term continuing decline. The ASE calls for exam boards to have greater flexibility to set questions that allow pupils to draw on their experiences of science in the outdoors. It also says more fieldwork training should be given to trainee teachers. The report warns: "Despite the strengths and advantages that fieldwork can bring to teaching at all ages, there has been a long-term and continuing decline in the provision and condition of outdoor education in science." Chief executive of ASE Annette Smith said that if trips meant teachers filling in endless forms, or if procedures for asking for parents' permission for children to go on trips were not streamlined, organising a science outing could become unattractive. Full story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/education-12229394 School field trips 'help students engage with subjects' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-12181454 School trip from hell coach driver tore up fence posts, careered into walls, burst tyre... and blamed his SatNav: Crashing off walls and uprooting fence posts with a flat tyre and children on board screaming - it was obvious the coach was too big for the mountain road. Occupational safety group backs government plans for simpler school trip process, and calls for balanced risk education on the curriculum. Full story: http://www.edexec.co.uk/news/1430/children-should-be-risk-savvy-on-school-trips/ Cornish teacher cleared of assaulting school trip pupilA teacher accused of twisting a pupil by his arm and pushing him against a mirror, has been cleared of assault. Stuart Ferguson, of Marine Drive, Looe, Cornwall, was charged with assaulting a pupil with behavioural issues during a school trip to a donkey sanctuary. Full story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-12013662 ood results down to strong discipline and school trips, says top primary:
read more: http://www.tntmagazine.com/tnt-today/archive/2011/03/29/school-trip-teenager-leaves-dead-baby-in-hotel-room.aspx#ixzz1I4KGcZGY
Dozens of students have been left distraught after a West school was forced to cancel their "trip of a lifetime" at the last minute.
Sixty students from the Kings of Wessex School in Cheddar, Somerset, were due to fly out to Denver, Colorado, for a skiing trip early next month.
But with just weeks to go, the trip had to be cancelled because the tour operator increased the price by more than £100 per person, and then offered to take the party to an alternative destination - Sunday River in Maine – that had little actual snow.
Teacher who brought sport success has died
By Nick Thompson, Sports Editor
The school's news club at Brooke Hill Primary School in Oakham visited Education City in Saddlers Court, Oakham, which creates the online learning and teaching resources that are used in the school.
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The 30 students from Norwich City College will spend five days in New York from Thursday February 24 where they will be documenting their pictures and experiences in a blog.Warning over red tape for science
BBC News education reporter
But driver Stuart Unwin stuck to the orders of his satnav for five miles despite teachers on the primary school trip begging him to stop.
