We asked for your most insane school trip stories and you sent thousands. This week Dylan and Hayden work through the best ones, plus how some schools manage two weeks off in October.
📅 *Why some schools get two weeks off in October*
It's simple: drop the five INSET days, take them as a week, and make up the roughly 30 hours with twilights and training through the year. Cheaper holidays for staff, fewer term-time absences for families. But do you lose that day one safeguarding refresher?
🚌 *Year 6 residentials in October*
Why more Year 6 trips are happening before Christmas, and a nod to the legendary pull-ups kid.
🏛️ *Diarrhoea at the British Museum*
A Year 3 child is refused the toilet just before the Central Line home. What follows involves two kitchen rolls, a Primark dash and a closed toilet. Amazingly, the museum still lets them back.
🚽 *Can you ever say no to the toilet on a trip?*
Friday afternoon in central London, 60 kids, a train to catch and a child who has just been. Where is the line? Plus Dylan reveals he never once used the toilet at school, and Hayden firmly denies anything happened on his Year 6 coach.
🗺️ *The wrong museum*
Dylan's old history teacher, in her NQT year, left alone with 60 kids in London. Ten minutes in, a pupil points out they're in the wrong museum.
📚 *How kids derail your lessons*
A physics class that timed how long they could keep their teacher talking, and Hayden's pupils grassing him up in pupil voice for "story time" in maths.
🪣 *The retainer in the sick bucket*
A three hour coach journey, a travel sick Year 6 and a head teacher who put on gloves when there were at least five better options.
⚽ *England v Brazil on a school coach, 2002*
A portable TV, a full coach of devastated Year 4s, and a passing taxi with a Brazil flag. Why trip memories stick for life.
✍️ *Celebrity children's books vs real authors*
Varjak Paw as the gold standard, the toilet humour trend, and why talented authors might be frustrated by bestselling celebrity books.
🌿 *Licking plants in a botanical garden*
Two Year 7s, a dare and a member of staff on a toilet break. Mild anaphylaxis, a trip to A&E, and the fine line between funny and bad.
⏱️ Chapters
00:00 Two weeks off in October
05:35 Your school trip stories
07:56 Diarrhoea at the British Museum
10:39 Should you refuse the toilet on a trip?
16:33 The wrong museum
18:16 How kids derail lessons
21:52 The retainer in the sick bucket
23:31 England v Brazil on a school coach
30:21 Celebrity children's books
36:33 Licking plants in a botanical garden
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