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The annual ski school trip
My daughter is off on her first one in February to Courmayer. Anyone have any comments to pass on.
She is travelling with Interski by coach.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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What year is she in?
Gregory's dying to go on his school's one but they don't seem too enthusiastic to take year7's.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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boredsurfin, you could mention to her that most teachers will be aware of the Vodka in the lemonade bottle trick and that she should try to think of a better place to hide it
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Ray Zorro, also if they're being bunked in single sex dorms it's not a good idea being busted by the teachers in the wrong one
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Illicit booze in usually discovered and donated to the hotel staff. So could they please not buy disgusting sticky fruit liqueurs - vodka, gin and possibly tequila will do nicely, thank you. And we don't need any more copies of Heat either.
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boredsurfin, don't know about Interski but spent 2 weeks in Courmayer about 10 years ago and had a fantastic time and its such a pretty resort.Lizzard,
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A friend's son worked with Interski last season - enjoyed it, thought it was a good operation, worked extremely hard and got a lot out of it. Your daughter should learn some basic Italian, if she hasn't already (the BBC beginners one is the best I found). It's really easy to learn a smattering which will enable her to have loads of fun in bars with Italians ....who will hugely appreciate her efforts and probably buy her lots of drinks.
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What year is she in?
Gregory's dying to go on his school's one but they don't seem too enthusiastic to take year7's. |
Year 9 and they can go again in year 10 (If we stump up £600+ !)
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Lizzard, Your not working for Interski this coming season are you?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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A small pillow/cushion for the coach makes sleeping a lot more confortable. Assuming they get any sleep.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Her ipod for the coach journey perhaps?
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In my experience of working with school groups, all the kids have a great time. It's the teachers who are mardy, irresponsible and grumpy.
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You know it makes sense.
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boredsurfin, never worked for Interski, though I've heard plenty of good things about them. My mate's son is their head instructor, I believe.
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School Ski trips were my entry to skiing
Jan 1992 Crest Voland
Jan 1993 Les Carroz/ Flaine
Jan 1995 Morzine
All fantastic trips.
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johnboy, ooh, nostalgia. I managed the Bartavelles in Crest Voland briefly a couple of summers ago.
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johnboy wrote: |
School Ski trips were my entry to skiing
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Mine too (and a lot of other things ). First school trip to Andalo in the Dolomites in 1979 - completely hooked from day 1. Just the whole thing of being away from my parents for the first time, srurrounded by lots of mates, and unusually being a quicker learner than most of the kids with me was such an intoxicating package. It's been an expensive habit to feed ever since...
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boredsurfin, £600+ for a coach trip !
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Utterly outrageous, teachers using parents to get themselves a free trip. |
Please please tell me that you are joking with that statement. If you for one minute think that taking kids on a ski trip is anything other than 24/7 work, then I suggest you try running one.
One teacher on the trip I was on at last year, managed a total ski time of 20 mins in the whole week.
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bladeskier, but I think that your other point still stands - the kids pay for the teachers - whether or not the teachers get to ski.
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bladeskier, I'd agree that Europe is a far better option than Quebec for a school trip...when price is an issue.
Ray Zorro, of course kids (or rather, parents) pay for the teachers. Someone has to be responsible for their conduct and welfare....and if the kids don't pay for it, then the trip doesn't happen (unfortunately).
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Lizzard,
Who runs the hotel these days? Mrs JB also had her first trip to C V in 2001.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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when price is an issue.
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isn't it always ?
Even if mum and dad have got that sort of cash lying around, the children aren't going to learn anything about cost/value if they just stump up and send them on the trip. There is no way that any of the children round my way are anything approaching deprived, but most of them have to show commitment if they want to go on a school skiing trip and put up some of the dosh - by babysitting, delivering papers, working in a shop etc.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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We're heading to Canada this New Year and taking the eleven year old.
We have to go at either this time or Easter as the Scottish schools only get two days off in February.
It's costing us £1000 for the eleven year old. This does include the flight, accomodation, ski hire and lessons,
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does not include any food, other trips.
The locals schools here do run the ski trip for just over £1000 for a week. But this includes EVERYTHING. All lessons, meals, equipment and a very active apres ski program.
The weather is far better guaranteed than in Europe and the lack of a language difference makes a huge difference when learning.
I know the school trips are expensive and not all parents either can afford - or want to spend that amount of money.
Our child has been told that if she wants to go on the ski trip when it gets to her turn, then she will have to contribute to the cost - and she won't be coming with us that year. (We'll be having an adult only trip) !
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school ski trips have the added value of them all going away with their friends.. the amount of sking they get done and what they learn will be far less than a trip with the parents and lessons..
If your kids ski with you and you fly, i'd give them 2 trips max before the long coach journey back takes its toll and they decide sking with mum n dad is more fun..
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You know it makes sense.
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Poster: A snowHead
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There were very few kids on my school ski trip that had skiied before so they all went off in a group together with the teachers each day, not much fun for them knowing the rest of us were teacher-free for 4 hours a day.
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Curtains, let go man, let go. You'll probably feel different when their older.
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I went to Bulgaria with my school for my first ski holiday. Upon reflection the equipment was poor, the food as per school lunch, the booze cheap. But it hooked me!
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johnboy, they no longer have the Baskervilles, following a big restructuring exercise a few seasons ago. It was sold, and I believe it was planned to convert it into apartments. Pity, I was rather fond of it!
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bladeskier, I was told last year of a school trip going to Vermont! The reason apparently was it is harder for the kids to get hold of alcohol in the States than in France, so easier for the teachers to police!
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harder for the kids to get hold of alcohol in the States than in France, so easier for the teachers to police
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maybe they should go to Norway, where they wouldn't be able to afford enough to do a lot of damage!
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I went skiing 4 times with my school, twice to alpes d'heuz an twice to italy. Skiing with the school was always real good fun, nice to have loads of mates with ya so you can all laugh at each other when you fall! I went on a coach the first time i went to aples d'heuz and the coach driver went the wrong way!!! took us 22 hours in the end, it was a painful trip in a little seat like that!
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Things your kids WILL do on a school trip:
- get their paws on booze. But most of it will end up in the hotel's staff accommodation, and in nearly 10 years of looking after school parties I've only ever seen one dangerously drunk child, so I wouldn't worry too much.
- buy fireworks. These will also end up in staff accommodation, and add spice to our end-of-season parties.
- stuff all the bogroll down the toilet. I have no idea why - it doesn't seem to me to offer much entertainment value.
- eat lots of unsuitable junk food.
- refuse to eat any vegetables. (See above.) But don't worry about that either - chefs save all the leftover veg and bung it in the lunchtime soup, so your child will get at least one vitamin a day.
- stuff all their bread and half their dinner in the water jugs/glasses. I have no idea why they do this either.
- develop a crush on a member of the company's staff (applies to both boys and girls). Usually the same member of staff every week, much to his/her embarrassment. Entertains the rest of us though.
- attempt to get off with each other/my staff/members of the sixth form group sharing the hotel (applies to over-14s only). Well, didn't you? Come on, 'fess up. But don't worry - their teachers are just as wise to this as as the rest of us and they rarely get anywhere.
- have fun. Most of them seem to have a whale of a time, and get as much out of the non-skiing aspects of the trip as they do from the skiing itself. If not more, in fact - it's much more than just a week's skiing.
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Amazing how many people got to go skiing with their school! Ours used to run a 6th form ski trip when I was in the 1st adn 2nd year, then they stopped it. And resumed it 2 years after I left grrrr Although I guess my folks were probably pleased about that as they would never have been able to afford it.
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