School trip News - Two
The government have announced that every child in school should experience at least one school trip in their lifetime.
The only problem is the teachers who are to organise and oversee the school trips insist that it’s the government who are making it extremely hard to make time to organise school trips.
It now seems the government has recognised this issue and put and action plan into place to help make it easy for teachers to organise school trips thanks to new guidance from the Department of Children, Schools and Families. The measure is included in the 'Staying Safe' Action Plan. This action plan should help make it easier for teachers to plan school trips by giving them more support and advice and less bureaucracy, even provided popular school trip destinations and organisers with quality badges.
The government is so keen to increase school trips for students because there is proven evidence that shows learning outside of the classroom bring so many benefits for children. It gives students a more visual learning experience which gives them a deeper subject learning. It has also been noted by parents that their children often return from school trips with increased self confidence and raised achievement. They also make children more aware of management risks and make them understand to be cautious.
In recent years heads and teachers have become wary of taking pupils on school trips with news of accidents and blame on teachers, but all have agreed with more guidance and training school trips can be made a more regular thing.
The new guidance in the action plan will reduce paperwork from the teachers and will make it easier and less stressful to take their students out of the classroom.