following on from the "what school did you attend" thread, what school trips/journeys do you remember.
i can recall
infant/junior school
cutty sark
mudchute city farm ******makes mental note to add goats to irrational hatred thread*******
eltham palace
westgate (week school journey)
tower of london
natural history museum
secondary school
boulogne (twice)
wembley stadium tour
inverleiver lodge
a few other odd days ice skating etc
0
Comments
Brighton 1979 (?) - missed us beating Chelsea 4-0 the day they tried to burn down the ground
Florida at Easter 1981 - cost me a fortune phoning home to find out our scores!
(Chis & Sid did some good school trips in those days!!)
only day ones i can remember were walking around Dorking Hills, a power plant on the South Coast, and Chiswick House. Unfortunately our year got banned from outings for two years so missed out a bit.
Isle of Wight last year of primary
France twice to Dunkirk in year 7 and 12
Israel in year 10
too many trips to remember!
Isle of wight
science museum
natural history museum
wembley for england v argentina
various discount theatre trips
secondary school
david evans silk factory crayford
cray river by hall place
dusseldorf german exchange
france day trip
france french exchange, can't remember where
italy, rio di jeselo for a week cooking with a day visit to venice
Dartford Museum probably and Stone Lodge Farm
At Secondary did the usual france day trips plus Science Museum and an outdoorsy week in Devon
Then a trip to Wales staying in an old church in a village containg three pubs and a general store that sold alcohol (and not much else) when the pubs were shut.
Kids in Greenwich and Bromley still go the Isle of Wight. year 6s from Joe's School are going next week.
My son decided he wanted which secondary school he wants on the basis that that school has a trip to Prague. Not going to happen. he can go to the C of E school and have a trip to Walsingham.
Which school did you go to? Dartford Museum is quite possibly the smallest place ever!
I used to love Stone Lodge Farm, watching the cows getting milked and the pigs were brilliant.
Shame now though, the site is so derilict and is often covered with people on motocross bikes and the like. What a great little place.
At infant's:
Crystal Palace Park (god help us all)
Stone Lodge Farm
Juniors:
Ightam Moat and some small olde-worldy museum on the same day
Tenderden to see the Steam Railway
The Commonwealth Institute (somewhere up near Kensington if I remember rightly)
Secondary:
A day trip to Boulogne
The open air theatre at Regents Park to see A Midsummer's Night Dream
A trip to Box Hill in Dorking for a Geography trip (walked flippin' miles that day)
A trip to The Barbican to see Hamlet, starring Kenneth Brannagh and Emma Thompson (absolutely fantastic)
A trip to Stratford-upon-avon
A trip to Tunbrudge Wells and Eastbourne/Brighton (for Geography)
An Economics trip to the new Docklands development, followed by Lloyds of London and the Bank of England (it was 1991-1992 at the time)
A trip to Kingsnorth Power Station
A trip to Chiswick House... something to do with History...
There's probably lots more but they are the ones I can remember...
I went on a 2, yes TWO week School Journey to Swanage in late April/early May 1976 while at Primary school.We watched Southampton beat Man Utd in the FA Cup Final on the hotel's telly.
Also watched West Ham in the final of the European Cup Winners Cup final. It went to ET and we were sent to bed! We listned on trannies. I seem to remember WHU missing a pen.
At secondary school remember "Field Trips" to Lullingstone and Colchester.
In '77 and '80 went to Inverliever Lodge in Scotland. Without doubt the West coast of Scotland is the most amazing countryside and landscape I have ever seen, and I have done the Rockies and the Alps.
In '82 went ski-ing to Italy and lost my cherry!
1983 went camping to Winchelsea - great booze up amd great fun.
They are my school journey memories.
My two lads primary school take them to Wrotham in Year 5 and Wales in year 6.
My eldest, now at senior school, goes to Barcelona with the school football team this Oct -He'll be year 8 by then, he went to London Zoo today!
My mate Luke, who a few on here know ended up getting pissed on by a gorilla. He kept teasing it by offering his rolls and then eating them. The next thing you know the monkey raised his arms, member flicked up and sprayed Luke with the most rotten smelling fluid ever. It was about an hour after we'd got there too.
Somewhere in North Wales 1996. Great time, got smashed all week went up Snowdon and all that jazz. School ended up getting barred from going back for some reason.
Camping somewhere near Eastbourne 1995. Again, great fun. Drank snakebite, got bitten by ants, burnt lots of food.
Do lads holidays count as school trips?? They are educational
In primary i went to wrotham, and swanage twice!
The only thing Poly let me do is go on a trip to Lillishall as i excelled in PE! Which was indeed excellent. But thats the only school trip i did at secondary! knobs
Calais and Boulogne - ended up drunk on cheapo wine on both occasions
Castles in Kent - including Deal, Walmer, Dover and Sandwich
The Orchard Theatre - saw a play called Daisy Pulls it Off!!!
A theatre in London (can't remember which) - saw To Kill a Mockingbird
Museum of London - some girl lost her contact lens and had us all looking around for it
My Dad ended up driving so many school trips from London to the Isle of Wight that he ended up moving there. Still does the school trips now, just drives up from the island and collects them, rather than from Kent.
i no two people called bones, and one of them is Mortain! the other is a fella i used to wwork with when i was 17!
You didn't come to Salou or Malta then - oh what fun they were. Salou - Mark Fiore (later to turn pro with Wimbledon and Plymouth) was so hungover from drinking he was puking in a pint glass in a restaurant where we were "representing" the school - and we caused absolute havoc in the hotel trying to hide our beer. Great trip at 15 really was.