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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

I wish I could skip work today and go on a trip!!

What school trips do you remember most?

We always looked forward to the Alton Towers one. It was only open for 4th and 5th years but that was the one we waited for.

The Geography trips were shit! We once went to a cattle auction?!?!

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By *ornycougaWoman
over a year ago

Wherever I lay my hat

Went to a council estate in Sheffield for a Geography trip and got hit on the head with a spark plug that someone lobbed out of a flat. Looking on the bright side - at least the trip was cut short

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Went on a geography field trip to E dale. Super fun. And a field trip to Dorset in sixth form. Both amazing.

But we did a 2 week exchange trip to Germany in year 10. That’s my all time fave.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Flamingo land. Person in front on the bus hurled everywhere. Not only did it stink! But the next hill we went up it started sliding down the floor

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Don't remember a particular trip. But I always remember the kid who would have egg on the bus. Egg sandwich or hard boiled egg. And couldn't wait till we got off. Had to have it on the bus.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Went to a council estate in Sheffield for a Geography trip and got hit on the head with a spark plug that someone lobbed out of a flat. Looking on the bright side - at least the trip was cut short"

Could have been worse. Might have been a wheel!

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

"I wish I could skip work today and go on a trip!!

What school trips do you remember most?

We always looked forward to the Alton Towers one. It was only open for 4th and 5th years but that was the one we waited for.

The Geography trips were shit! We once went to a cattle auction?!?!

From memory (which admittedly is somewhat jaded) i only did two. One was to a youth hostel in eyam and the other a ski trip to aviemore. Neither of which i would wish to repeat. My kids have been on some amazing (and amazingly expensive) ones.

Got to be honest its a fucking industry now and i question the value of many of them.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I never went on the foreign ones as my parents couldn't afford it but I loved London. Recently some very old photos appeared on a facebook page of us all on a mining museum trip. How cool we all looked

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

"Went to a council estate in Sheffield for a Geography trip and got hit on the head with a spark plug that someone lobbed out of a flat. Looking on the bright side - at least the trip was cut short"

Dont start

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

I once went on a residential school trip to a working farm - it was brilliant; a few days of working on the farm and learning.

But on the last day we went on a walk along the canal. Was told we could get on a canal boat and have a look around.

It was October. Cold, raining. I fell into the canal. In a full winter outfit. I was 10 at the time. The owner of the boat jumped in after me. But being in that dark, freezing cold water for less than a minute was enough to give me a lifelong fear of canals.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Geography trip to Lulworth cove on a very warm day. It was beautiful

Also loved the end of year 'activities week' in high school - alton towers, Thorpe Park, dry skiing, archery.. so much fun! X

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cattle auction made me laugh

I adored all my school trips, but mainly the yearly camping/stately home ones, found their versions of history most interesting - and also the obligatory Alton Towers ones

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bernardo’s home

One trip I remember not exactly a school trip absconded lol bunked on train to London two more trains to Dover then on ferry to France got busted in Calais still had few days in France

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By *iasubTV/TS
over a year ago

Ilkeston

My geography trip was standing in a lake in December, was very cold

Almost toped by going to Birmingham to count people and cigarette ends, that was adrenaline pumping trip

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By *elix SightedMan
over a year ago

Cloud 8

"I wish I could skip work today and go on a trip!!

What school trips do you remember most?

We always looked forward to the Alton Towers one. It was only open for 4th and 5th years but that was the one we waited for.

The Geography trips were shit! We once went to a cattle auction?!?!

Alton towers?! You lucky bastard - how is that educational?!!

I went to France for a week to see the bayeux tapestry and D-day landing sites etc. the rest were all shite.

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By *ravelling_WilburyMan
over a year ago

Beverley

I was quite lucky. Went to Washington DC on a history trip and the Swiss Alps on a geography field trip. Both were amazing, though the second was on bus

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I wish I could skip work today and go on a trip!!

What school trips do you remember most?

We always looked forward to the Alton Towers one. It was only open for 4th and 5th years but that was the one we waited for.

The Geography trips were shit! We once went to a cattle auction?!?!

Alton towers?! You lucky bastard - how is that educational?!!

For ‘team’ building purposes "

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By *utie bootyMan
over a year ago

the manor that never was

I went a lot of school trips, regardless of the location or reason it was always better then being in school. Always loved going to the coast for fish and chips.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My most memorable was a theatre trip to a play when I was14 as a part of GCE English. There was a dance number and all the women had their tits out.. no idea what the play was about…

I also had a few good field trips, weeks away at activity/adventure centres and a long one in the Forest of Dean ( first time in a pub).

Fair few with Cadets too, including overseas.. I did ok.

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

Two trips stand out for me.

Two week trip to Northumberland where we hiked across hills and

valleys, canoed, swam in a freezing pond, orienteered, saw the Keilder Dam being built, crossed into Scotland as we walked along Hadrian's wall, and saw some amazing pine forests.

A one day trip to Stonehenge that was particularly underwhelming.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Skip work and go, you’ll have a blast.

Life’s too short.

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By *uitedandbooted123Man
over a year ago

Herts

"Went to a council estate in Sheffield for a Geography trip and got hit on the head with a spark plug that someone lobbed out of a flat. Looking on the bright side - at least the trip was cut short"

I don’t think this can be beaten

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Been on a History trip to see the Houses of Parliament and a couple of Geography trips to the Peak District and te Lake District

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Been on a History trip to see the Houses of Parliament and a couple of Geography trips to the Peak District and the Lake District

Oh and I remember visiting Jorvik in year 4 which was quite fun

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By *RO63Man
over a year ago

Wymondham

"Went to a council estate in Sheffield for a Geography trip and got hit on the head with a spark plug that someone lobbed out of a flat. Looking on the bright side - at least the trip was cut short"

You'll always find some bright spark on a council estate throwing stuff out of windows

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By *bi HaiveMan
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over a year ago

Cheeseville, Somerset

I went to South Wales on a school trip when I was 12. For decades before they'd always gone to France but the year before someone had bought a souvenir penknife (as you did back then because they all had 'Nice' or 'Scunthorpe' engraved on the side, or a little national flag or a picture of some sheep) and as boys often do they'd been throwing it at trees.

All fine and dandy til some poor sod ended up with one in the back whilst going to retrieve his own.

So no Brittany for me. Just Tenby.

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

The Liverpool cathedrals were good. I enjoyed the Jewish museum due to family history. And the end of 5th form trip to York was ace too.

German exchange also great fun!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My most memorable school trip was during my final years at school when my technology class visited the Ford factory at Dagenham - would have been early 1987 as it was shortly before Ford facelifted the Sierra and introduced the Sapphire model. We were given a tour of the whole factory, from engine production right through to final assembly and seeing finished cars coming off the line.

Fascinating experience

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By *annaPlayABCCouple
over a year ago

Bacup

Secondary school 3 day trip to Bath (yeah I know sounds dead boring eh ?),not when teacher you have major crush on was going,anyway on last night myself and two other roommates decided to climb out window and onto main street and go get some snacks etc. only to get caught by her and another teacher who'd had same idea as we had..needless to say it didn't go too well after that point.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Was lucky enough to go skiing and even luckier to get wanked off on the back of the bus on the way home

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By *ulfilthmentMan
over a year ago

Just around the corner

"Oh and I remember visiting Jorvik in year 4 which was quite fun

I think everyone used to go to Jorvik when it was new. All I remember is the chap in the privy.

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

Went on a residential trip to malvern last year of primary. Yes I also got to go to alton towers but I'm so old it hadn't been built

Just park, gardens and some cable cars.

Oh we also went to Wimbledon one year which was good

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We went to an old folks home to sing to them. I was sick and it landed on an old woman’s slippers

We also spent the day in a street just up from the school litter picking and painting over graffiti on the wall. Basically our school trips were just community service

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By *educing_EmCouple
over a year ago

Tipperary

I remember going to Rome it was the best. We also went to delphi adventure resort in Connemara for a few days that was great craic

Em x

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By *uitedandbooted123Man
over a year ago

Herts

"I remember going to Rome it was the best. We also went to delphi adventure resort in Connemara for a few days that was great craic

Em x"

How did you manage to wangle that one Em… that sounds far too much like fun haha x

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

"Oh and I remember visiting Jorvik in year 4 which was quite fun

I think everyone used to go to Jorvik when it was new. All I remember is the chap in the privy.

I remember that too! And the smell

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Cattle auction made me laugh

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I know. I can’t even count the amount of kids that were vegetarian afterwards!

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By *imi_RougeWoman
over a year ago

Portsmouth

The only one I really remember was the week in France that we did, end of middle school.

And the science museum in secondary school, we didn't do any big trips.

My son went all over the place Germany, Poland, even to the states at college.

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By *elix SightedMan
over a year ago

Cloud 8

"My most memorable was a theatre trip to a play when I was14 as a part of GCE English. There was a dance number and all the women had their tits out.. no idea what the play was about…

Now there’s a good way of making sure none of the lads get up before the end!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

In different years we went to the Boh Tea plantation in Malaysia; Kuala Lumpur's national mosque, national museum and national zoo; a tin quarry in Ipoh; and hikes in the tropical rain forest.

I may have gone to school in Malaysia, which could explain the apparent exotic nature of the trips!

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By *antra MassageMan
over a year ago

South Side.

We went on bus trips to country towns, which became shoplifting sprees for some of the boys. My daughter's class went to Paris,where they left a child sleeping in a hotel room, while the rest got on the plane home!

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By *educing_EmCouple
over a year ago

Tipperary

"I remember going to Rome it was the best. We also went to delphi adventure resort in Connemara for a few days that was great craic

Em x

How did you manage to wangle that one Em… that sounds far too much like fun haha x"

They were both in transition year which is basically just fucking about and going on little holidays for a year

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By *bi HaiveMan
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over a year ago

Cheeseville, Somerset

"We went to an old folks home to sing to them. I was sick and it landed on an old woman’s slippers

We also spent the day in a street just up from the school litter picking and painting over graffiti on the wall. Basically our school trips were just community service

I'd have loved that!

As long as you got to wear orange jumpsuits of course. I'd have been running around holding a metal spike in the air waiting to be struck by lightening and given super powers.......

*anyone that doesn't get that reference needs to sort their TV viewing out.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"We went to an old folks home to sing to them. I was sick and it landed on an old woman’s slippers

We also spent the day in a street just up from the school litter picking and painting over graffiti on the wall. Basically our school trips were just community service

I'd have loved that!

As long as you got to wear orange jumpsuits of course. I'd have been running around holding a metal spike in the air waiting to be struck by lightening and given super powers.......

*anyone that doesn't get that reference needs to sort their TV viewing out.

Misfits?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Cattle auction made me laugh

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I know. I can’t even count the amount of kids that were vegetarian afterwards!

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By *bi HaiveMan
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over a year ago

Cheeseville, Somerset

"We went to an old folks home to sing to them. I was sick and it landed on an old woman’s slippers

We also spent the day in a street just up from the school litter picking and painting over graffiti on the wall. Basically our school trips were just community service

I'd have loved that!

As long as you got to wear orange jumpsuits of course. I'd have been running around holding a metal spike in the air waiting to be struck by lightening and given super powers.......

*anyone that doesn't get that reference needs to sort their TV viewing out.

Misfits?

Yep! May have to binge watch that again soon.

"You'd shag your sister for a slice of cheese!"

"I don't even like cheese."

"That makes it even worse you sick bastard!".

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"We went to an old folks home to sing to them. I was sick and it landed on an old woman’s slippers

We also spent the day in a street just up from the school litter picking and painting over graffiti on the wall. Basically our school trips were just community service

I'd have loved that!

As long as you got to wear orange jumpsuits of course. I'd have been running around holding a metal spike in the air waiting to be struck by lightening and given super powers.......

*anyone that doesn't get that reference needs to sort their TV viewing out.

Misfits?

Yep! May have to binge watch that again soon.

"You'd shag your sister for a slice of cheese!"

"I don't even like cheese."

"That makes it even worse you sick bastard!".

I enjoyed it so much I watched it twice. Robert Sheehan was brilliant

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By *ansoffateMan
over a year ago

Sagittarius A

Ellesmere port boat museum. I lost my virginity on a narrow boat there. Didn't go down to well with the teachers.

Chester zoo we got kicked out. Think 'Are Day out'.

Paris lol we all got d*unk and I had to hide in a girls wardrobe in my boxers, whilst one of the teachers was searching around trying to find me. I had to hold the door from the inside because the latch didn't work and there was no handle, it was constantly slipping. It was intense

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

"I wish I could skip work today and go on a trip!!

What school trips do you remember most?

We always looked forward to the Alton Towers one. It was only open for 4th and 5th years but that was the one we waited for.

The Geography trips were shit! We once went to a cattle auction?!?!

Alton towers?! You lucky bastard - how is that educational?!!

I went to France for a week to see the bayeux tapestry and D-day landing sites etc. the rest were all shite."

I had an amusement park trip attached to maths - we needed to calculate the angle and speed of rides, etc

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By *ik MMan
over a year ago

Lancashire

The first proper school trip I went on was to Normandy in 1st year (year 7 now I think). There were older kids on the trip who had already discovered alcohol, tobacco and girls.

On the ferry over we snook into the cinema and watched Porkies Revenge and Commando. Word got out that one of the older boys had won £50 on a fruit machine. When we got to France we had to be told explicitly not to buy weapons of kind.

The lad who won the money didn’t heed the warning and spent the lot on a crossbow. Wtf he planned on doing with it I don’t know but my over-riding memory of that trip was watching my French teacher standing at the end of a pier and launching said crossbow into the English Channel.

Great trip

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By *ris GrayMan
over a year ago

Dorchester

"I wish I could skip work today and go on a trip!!

What school trips do you remember most?

We always looked forward to the Alton Towers one. It was only open for 4th and 5th years but that was the one we waited for.

The Geography trips were shit! We once went to a cattle auction?!?!

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lulworth cove one of the teachers fancied me i wasn't a child i was driving the bus we had mens and womens showers she came in while i was showering

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By *NL Social SpurschickWoman
over a year ago

Social Zone

Not something that was the usual when / where I went to school.

We had the summer Saturday to Yarmouth every July, whole school let loose on our own for the day to do as we please.

Other than that Geography field trip, 5 days in Dorset which was great. Again we took over a youth hostel and had free rein to do as we please once knew the task / walk for the day.

Camping away with the cadets, was the best experience and watching the lads sulk as the lasses troop wooped their arses at orienting, attack mode and shooting.

Outside of that the only civvy school trip I remember is a day trip to France when was 10. Put on the coach with my lunch and a few pennies, explore the town (again on our own). On the way back on the ferry this lady & her daughter (not from our school) gave me some food. I would bump into the daughter again two years later when I started boarding school and we remain friends to this day.

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By *issIrishCoffeeWoman
over a year ago

Bristol

My favourite was going to the zoo , it was my first time and only time I been . I was super excited

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

Torquay

Growing up on a South London housing estate you rarely had the opportunity of school trips.

While the posh schools went on educational cruises we went across the Thames on the Woolwich ferry

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We did not do many school trips unless it was as part of the scouts

Remember once we came to Wales on a camping trip, playing poker all night on the ferry over from Ireland.

Had an unusual incident on that trip that never got to the bottom of

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By *andyfloss2000Woman
over a year ago

ashford

Norfolk broads for a week can't remember which year we're 2 boys boats and one girls 3 teachers 2 for the boys boats and one for the girls! They used to all leave us in the eve and go to local pub! We used to have a whale of a time without them! Can't imagine them doing that these days x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"We did not do many school trips unless it was as part of the scouts

Remember once we came to Wales on a camping trip, playing poker all night on the ferry over from Ireland.

Had an unusual incident on that trip that never got to the bottom of "
What happened then, don’t leave us in suspenders

can’t be doing with cliffhangers today

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Go karting and paint balling.

Good old days.

Mrs

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By *ravelling_WilburyMan
over a year ago

Beverley

"Ellesmere port boat museum. I lost my virginity on a narrow boat there. Didn't go down to well with the teachers.

They really shouldn't have graded you

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"We did not do many school trips unless it was as part of the scouts

Remember once we came to Wales on a camping trip, playing poker all night on the ferry over from Ireland.

Had an unusual incident on that trip that never got to the bottom of What happened then, don’t leave us in suspenders

can’t be doing with cliffhangers today

Depends who you believe as never fully understood what happened

One story was possessed by the devil after reading the omen in one night

Another was I was roofied for a laugh

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By *exyfuncouple-40Couple
over a year ago

Bloxham

Went to littlehampton what a shit hole it was back then , Isle of Wight nice want to go back and do the festival

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"We did not do many school trips unless it was as part of the scouts

Remember once we came to Wales on a camping trip, playing poker all night on the ferry over from Ireland.

Had an unusual incident on that trip that never got to the bottom of What happened then, don’t leave us in suspenders

can’t be doing with cliffhangers today

Depends who you believe as never fully understood what happened

One story was possessed by the devil after reading the omen in one night

Another was I was roofied for a laugh "

I believe that Omen one. Kids + The Omen would’ve been a poltergeists dream scenario

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

"Growing up on a South London housing estate you rarely had the opportunity of school trips.

While the posh schools went on educational cruises we went across the Thames on the Woolwich ferry"

North of the river? You were brave

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By *esmond and Molly JonesCouple
over a year ago

Watford

"We went on bus trips to country towns, which became shoplifting sprees for some of the boys. My daughter's class went to Paris,where they left a child sleeping in a hotel room, while the rest got on the plane home! "

Now there's an idea for a film.

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By *elix SightedMan
over a year ago

Cloud 8

"Ellesmere port boat museum. I lost my virginity on a narrow boat there. Didn't go down to well with the teachers. "

Were they jealous?

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By *bi HaiveMan
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over a year ago

Cheeseville, Somerset

Well.

This one time at band camp......

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By *elix SightedMan
over a year ago

Cloud 8

"I wish I could skip work today and go on a trip!!

What school trips do you remember most?

We always looked forward to the Alton Towers one. It was only open for 4th and 5th years but that was the one we waited for.

The Geography trips were shit! We once went to a cattle auction?!?!

Alton towers?! You lucky bastard - how is that educational?!!

I went to France for a week to see the bayeux tapestry and D-day landing sites etc. the rest were all shite.

I had an amusement park trip attached to maths - we needed to calculate the angle and speed of rides, etc"

That sounds like the most tenuous excuse ever for a maths teacher to go on a jolly!!!

Did you also have a maths trip to a casino?! Or a chemistry trip to a meth lab?!

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

"I wish I could skip work today and go on a trip!!

What school trips do you remember most?

We always looked forward to the Alton Towers one. It was only open for 4th and 5th years but that was the one we waited for.

The Geography trips were shit! We once went to a cattle auction?!?!

Alton towers?! You lucky bastard - how is that educational?!!

I went to France for a week to see the bayeux tapestry and D-day landing sites etc. the rest were all shite.

I had an amusement park trip attached to maths - we needed to calculate the angle and speed of rides, etc

That sounds like the most tenuous excuse ever for a maths teacher to go on a jolly!!!

Did you also have a maths trip to a casino?! Or a chemistry trip to a meth lab?!

It was the only maths trip I ever went on. Mostly had history trips to museums and shit.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I wish I could skip work today and go on a trip!!

What school trips do you remember most?

We always looked forward to the Alton Towers one. It was only open for 4th and 5th years but that was the one we waited for.

The Geography trips were shit! We once went to a cattle auction?!?!

I was on a school trip along the Manchester Ship canal and could have got laid but I was too shy having just turned legal age. I had my virginity for another 4 years.

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

With school football team to Belgium. Peak District.

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