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Disabled Schoolboy Told School Trip is Too 'Inaccessible' For Him

Posted: Wednesday, 21 December 2022 - 2:51pm

A nine-year-old schoolboy from Stockport is left “annoyed and excluded” after being told he cannot attend a residential school trip with his friends to Wales due to the lack of facilities to cope with his disability.

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Free School Trips in 2023 to Paignton Zoo

Posted: Monday, 19 December 2022 - 10:32am

As part of their 100th anniversary celebrations, Paignton Zoo are offering free school trips throughout 2023 to primary and secondary schools. This momentous offer honours the zoo’s original goal when it was established in 1923 - to provide a place of learning where people can discover the wonders of nature.

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Teachers Found Not Guilty Over Death of Girl on French School Trip

Posted: Monday, 24 October 2022 - 2:41pm

Three teachers from the UK have been found not guilty of the equivalent of manslaughter by gross negligence after the death of a 12-year-old pupil on a French school trip.
 
Jessica Lawson, who was a pupil at Wolfreton School in Willerby, was on a school trip when she died due to a pontoon capsizing in a lake near Limoges in southern France in July 2015.
 
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Pupil Dies After Illness is Dismissed as ‘Homesickness’ on School Trip

Posted: Monday, 15 August 2022 - 10:43am

Timothy Fehring, a healthy boy of 15, died while on a school trip to Europe after teachers and doctors dismissed his illness as mostly homesickness, despite severe symptoms such as frequent vomiting. He died six days into the trip on 28th June 2019.

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School Children Rescued by Firefighters After Bus Catches Fire on School Trip

Posted: Monday, 15 August 2022 - 10:32am

A class of school children on a school trip had to be evacuated from their bus after it caught fire.

The bus caught fire on the A169 in the middle of the North Yorkshire Moors at approximately 5pm on 12th July. The incident occurred nearby to a RAF Flyingdales - a ballistic missile radar base - who rescued the 31 children and teachers aboard the bus, and extinguished the fire.

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Schoolboy Falls From 60ft Cliff on School Trip

A 15-year-old boy fell 60ft over the edge of a cliff whilst on a geography school trip, miraculously only suffering minor injuries.