Holiday with the school

I never went on holiday with the school - the furthest afield we went was a day trip to London, and one to York. DD, in secondary, went to Paris for a week with the school, and then to Germany for week, connected with her A level studies. My Grandson, still in his junior school has had a couple of residentials in this country and will be goi

I meant “ON the landing”, not “in”.

I went to Derbyshire with the school Brownie pack when I was 11. It was 1951, and the census was done when we were there. There was quite a kerfuffle over one girl who didn’t know her place of birth. No email or mobile phones then! The other problem was that almost all of us had long plaits, but only one girl could do them herself. She was one of seven children, so was more independent then most of us. The brownie leaders had to do everyone else’s, including mine.

Apart from that we had a good time. It was in the heart of the country and pretty primitive as I remember it. Not camping, but very basic accommodation, with outside loos. At night we had an “arrangement in the landing” for anyone who needed the loo.

When I was in senior school there was a school trip to Austria, but I didn’t go for some reason. I think I was ill.

I only went on a holiday with school once. I remember it so vividly. We went to London from our little town in Cumberland. It was the first time I'd been to the capital. It was October 1966, and I remember the holiday not for what we did, but for what happened while we were away. The weather was dreadful, it rained continuously. At the beginning of the week the Aberfan disaster occurred, and at the end of the week Alma Cohan died. The only thing I remember doing was going to the theatre for the first time in my fourteen years.

Never went on a school holiday but was a boarder there so that was a sort of holiday from home I suppose. Did once go on a day trip to Stirling Castle when I was about 6 I remember.