Spotlight – learning outside the classroom
School trips have been surrounded by a growing culture of anxiety about safety. However, few would deny that learning outside the classroom is crucially important to a sound education for children.
Full story: http://www.iosh.co.uk/news_and_events/connect/54_spotlight_-_school_trips.aspx
July 2010
By Mike Russell
Education Reporter
THREE Barnsley pupils are recovering after contracting dysentery on a school trip to the Cheddar Gorge in Somerset.
Two of the youngsters from Barugh Green Primary were so ill they had to spend several days in hospital, after suffering from diarrhoea, vomiting and fever.
Spotlight – learning outside the classroom
School trips have been surrounded by a growing culture of anxiety about safety. However, few would deny that learning outside the classroom is crucially important to a sound education for children.
Full story: http://www.iosh.co.uk/news_and_events/connect/54_spotlight_-_school_trips.aspx
By Mike Russell
Education Reporter
THREE Barnsley pupils are recovering after contracting dysentery on a school trip to the Cheddar Gorge in Somerset.
Two of the youngsters from Barugh Green Primary were so ill they had to spend several days in hospital, after suffering from diarrhoea, vomiting and fever.
All three are now recovering at home after being diagnosed with shigella dysentery, which lADVERTISEMENTed to an inspection of the school by the Health Protection Agency, who advised it should stay open.
Full story:
http://www.thestar.co.uk/headlines/School-trip-sick-bug.6450217.jp
A school trip with a huge difference, PUPILS from an East Yorkshire school have raised funds to fly to Uganda and help children less fortunate than themselves.
Full Story: http://findarticles.com/p/news-articles/hull-daily-mail/mi_8073/is_20100708/school-trip-huge-difference/ai_n54374217/
Death of a Pupil on a School Trip - Lessons for Schools, Employers and Teachers.
Full story:http://educational.markoware.com/death-of-a-pupil-on-a-school-trip-lessons-for-schoolsemployers-and-teachers/
Pupils suffer mystery illness on school trip
Full story: http://www.burytimes.co.uk/news/8263808.Pupils_suffer_mystery_illness_on_school_trip/
Wirral kids escape injury after bus smash on school trip
Jul 7 2010 by Tom Duffy, Bromborough and Bebington News
full story: http://www.wirralnews.co.uk/wirral-news/local-wirral-news/bromborough-bebington-news/tm_headline=wirral-kids-escape-injury-after-bus-smash-on-school-trip%26method=full%26objectid=26796512%26siteid=80491-name_page.html
School trip will see the poorer side of Brazil
A SCHOOL trip with a difference will see Bolton youngsters visit poverty stricken areas of Brazil.
Pupils from Canon Slade school in Bradshaw will meet teenage drug addicts and visit shanty towns in the South American country.
Full story: http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/8194624.School_trip_will_see_the_poorer_side_of_Brazil/
A school trip with a difference!
Year 11 students from Saint Paul’s Catholic High School in Wythenshawe, Greater Manchester, enjoyed the school trip of a life time when they visited a children’s charity in Thailand.
For full story:
http://www.ukeducationnews.co.uk/blog/?p=380
Boy, 8, left behind on school trip
An Essex school is reviewing its procedures after an eight-year-old boy was left behind on a school trip.
Full story: http://www.lynnnews.co.uk/news/regional/boy_8_left_behind_on_school_trip_1_652619
"shocking decline" in school trips.
Full story: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/7811198/Half-of-us-have-never-fished-or-used-a-compass.html
Twelve pupils hurt in bus accident
Twelve schoolchildren have been taken to hospital after their coach ended up on a roundabout as they headed on a seaside day-trip.
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