Educational trips for students
When your child starts to attend school, they may be offered to go on a trip as part of their educational learning. In primary school, these are often day trips to location places of interest that fit in with the topic they are studying, whereas they progress to secondary school or later on at primary school, it may involve staying away from home for a number of days or weeks.
Some parents struggle to see if this has a positive impact on a child’s learning as often the trip will not be structured like in a classroom situation.
Each trip can vary in terms of how educational it is for a child, but behind every trip there is a goal in what the school hopes the child will learn from it. Depending on the behaviour of the pupils and conditions such as weather, trips can teach a child a lot that they may not have picked up as easily as being sat and taught it in a classroom, but this sometimes does comes at quite an expense to the parents.
