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‘Gutted’ Children’s Dance School Members Lose £12,000 due to Thomas Cook Collapse
Posted: Monday, 30 September 2019 - 2:59pm
Following the collapse of Thomas Cook, The Ysgol Ddawns Anti Karen group has lost over £12,000 in travel deposits after booking a flight to dance on Broadway. Owner Karen Pritchard had raised concerns over the company’s finances, but the Brand Ambassador of Thomas Cook had reassured her that this was merely ‘media speculation’. Mrs.
Cambodia Visit for Falmouth Students
Posted: Friday, 20 September 2019 - 3:14pm
A group of Falmouth students left the comfort of their Cornish homes and traveled to Cambodia for a month to work on community projects.
The students spent the last two years fundraising for the trip. After three days in Phenom Penh, they went on to help repair a dam, build houses and toilets, renovate schools, water projects, reforestation of community forests and teach primary and secondary school children in a community school that is supported by Camps International. They also took part in a four day jungle trek in the Kulen National Park.
CAA Warns Teachers To Check Overseas Trips
Posted: Tuesday, 10 September 2019 - 3:27pm
The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has warned teachers to check any overseas trips are ATOL protected before booking, to avoid losing up to £750 per student if the travel company ceases trading.
ATOL (the Air Travel Organisers’ Licensing) protects package trips and safeguards against parents being left out of pocket or have their children stranded abroad in the event of the travel operator going bust.
School Trips Cut Funding Dwindles and Costs Rise
Posted: Thursday, 5 September 2019 - 9:29am
In a survey by the Sutton Trust earlier this year, it was revealed that 43% of teachers had made cutbacks to trips and outings. The reasons given included the lack of support staff and chaperones, the prohibitive cost of coach hire and the cost of trips to parents.
“Free Passports and Trips Abroad” says Private School Principal
Posted: Monday, 29 July 2019 - 9:15am
Melvyn Roffe, of George Watson’s College in Edinburgh, has urged the education secretary to fund lengthy foreign trips and lobby the Home Office to provide free passports.
Roffe believes that schoolchildren are becoming insular and self-obsessed and due to increasing travel costs and health and safety fears, many students don’t get the opportunity to travel.
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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.