30 November 2006

School Visits

The Government's response to the decline in the number of organised school visits is to throw a very small bucket of money at it. It is a typical New Labour response. It allows them to claim to have done something without actually dealing with the real complexities of the problem.

As a School Governor I have been on quite a few residential trips, in fact I have been on a 5 day trip to York for the last 3 years and it is always one of the highlights of my year. There is no doubt that children get immense amounts out of them and it is always rewarding to see difficult children really start to blossom at the end of the week when they have learned to enjoy themselves working within boundaries.

One of the other things I see is the immense amount of work that goes into them and the obsession with risk assessment -and it is that area than needs to be examined to give teachers confidence to engage in these useful activities.

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