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 Poster: A snowHead
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Did your school offer ski-ing trips? Mine didn't, and I feel I missed out. I've made the question a simple yes / no one.
I was at school in Dorset from 1975-1988...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Nope.
Bedfordshire 1962 - 1976.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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School from 65 till 77 in Kingston, skiing wasn't invented then 
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School till 1979. Yes, but I wasn't allowed to go - too expensive 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I am too old to remember, but I know what my parents would have said had I asked - NO!
I vaguely remember the school having a cruise trip, not sure about skiing though - I left school in 1976
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Yes, but only the rich kids went
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had school skiing trips, utill some students were caught sh@gging one of the female teachers (6th form over 16) then it was curtailed
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Yes. Christchurch Boys High School did. 1961. We stayed at a hut near the Heritage hotel, Mount Cook. Wooden skis, cable bindings. Ordinary workers/walking boots with the heel gouged to take the binding. Portable rope tow. Two Austrian ski instructors. Had a great time. Didn't ski again til about 1985, though. I've tried to make up for that since.
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IncogSkiSno, Ditto! mine would have laughed at the thought! 
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Yes they did- Reading, Berks, 1994-2001
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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The school did ski trips but always for the older kids when I was an older kid they stopped doing them (left school in 1978) 
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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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| Odin wrote: |
| had school skiing trips, utill some students were caught sh@gging one of the female teachers (6th form over 16) then it was curtailed |
Some 
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Kids today are soo lucky aren't they? My kids had been to America, France, Germany, Austria all before leaving school. They now expect to do at least one trip with friends abroad every year as Uni students, not to mention skiing with us still (all paid for I hasten to add).
The trouble is: me saying all this makes me sound old, just like my parents would have said "we didn't have that in our day, you don't know how lucky you are!", am I turning into my mother? 
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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I didn't realise until recently, but my mum visited the Alps with school - must have been in the late 1950's and my grandparents couldn't be described as at all wealthy.
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Poster: A snowHead
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boredsurfin She was on here today briefly. They are kinda online, but have to sort out some probs on Monday. I shall let her know that you miss her 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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My High School did annual ski trips to Andalo, Italy-I went twice (late 1980's)
Really hoping they still do ski holidays as our Daughter will (hopefully!) be going to that school next year!
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Yes, my secondary school did, mainly because a couple of boys in my year begged one of the sports teachers to run a trip (he had previously organised the trips run by the local education authority). The first of these trips were in 1979 (my first skiing experience, also to Andalo like net_masters) and were still very popular when I left in 1984.
I feel incredibly frortunate that not only was I sent skiing once, but my parents paid for me to go another three times. Looking back I realise now how much of a finacial struggle that must have been.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Good god no. My school barely provided tables and chairs. Left in 1971 IIRC.
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nope.if they did would not have been able to go .
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They did but I never got to go - I think it might have made a big difference to my life had I gone though, I certainly would have worked in a ski resort. Its something I will make sure that my kids get the opportunity to do.
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My kids have hardly been on any school trips at their comprehensive. The recently retired headmaster would not let art students visit galleries or anything either, not just skiing trips. The eldest went on an exchange visit to France, but that was all. Our youngest (now nearly 17) is going away for 3 days to London at half term, apparently scholl trips are back, as they are having a History trip to Germany in Feb, and another art trip to Barcelona or Paris later in the year.
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Nope - no ski trips. Did go on a school cruise in the Med, an outdoor activity week in Buxton and, in the VI form, a coach trip through Eastern Europe and Russia - I was only one from our school to go on that but it was a great experience.
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We had a school trip to Fai della Paganella in the Dolomites when I was in school.
Being a Welsh school, assignment to lesson ability groups was done based on rugby performance. And I was always the last to be picked for rugby 
Thinking about it, I'd love to go back - primarily because we spent most of the week on one run.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I went on a couple of German exchanges, but that was in the summer, and a round Heidelberg - which sports no ski runs.
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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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I remember going on two trips, school was is Shepperton Middlesex, first time to Chamonix - leather boots and lanyards!! I think we skied Les Houches rather than the main Chamonix areas. Second trip was to Mayhoffen, we stayed in a hotel that had it's own small drag lift - we all got soaked after collecting our hire skis and trying them out without putting on our ski clothing. The hotel was miles out of 'town' so it took ages to walk back in the evenings after getting the cable car down.
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Yup, Grammar school ran a ski trip every year I was there 'til I left in 92. I went twice, both times in the 6th form.
I also had a French trip in the second year and another watersports trip to France in the 4th form. I missed out on trips to Germany and Russia though, not a bad haul though really, parents saved like mad to let me & my sister do stuff like that.
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You know it makes sense.
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Yes Royal Grammar High Wycombe - one teacher in particular ran it all. train from HW -> London -> Dover -> Ferry Calais, train overnight through to Landek (? Sp) in Austria. Skied Nauders, 4 year running. There was a TO: Schools Abroad I think they were called, that did the organising, but IIRC they got into a bit of trouble.
As per all the above posts , leather boots, cable based bindings, pyjamas to give warmth under some fairly odd legging things. Ski length of outstretched arm above head, with hand curled over. Lessons all day with 1/2 hour packed lunch break. Free-skiing? - don't be silly- Would you let a bunch of 14 year olds out on their own?!!
But it was Fan-bloody-tastic.
£60 the first year (I think '72 or 3 ish) all in, £5 pocket money for the week. Amazingly only one person hurt - broke his finger in the pub skittle alley leaning on a ball when the return ball came back and squashed it.
Last trip, 4 years later was £115 (I remember because I cashed in one of those 'man from the Pru' door-to-door saleman insurance policy thingys that my grandmother had been contributing to weekly, to pay for it) Nowdays, that barely covers the bar bill on a good night out...
I believe they still go, but to Eastern US / Canada now, as better vfm.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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I went to Valloire with my school as a first-timer and experienced the best conditions i have ever seen. Hooked ever since
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Poster: A snowHead
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Our school did 2 trips I think over the course of the 5 years I was there, never went tho.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| PhillipStanton wrote: |
| Being a Welsh school, assignment to lesson ability groups was done based on rugby performance. |
 That's very familiar! Curiously I got selected more quickly for rugby after discovering I was quite good at skiing!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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My sister was banned from going on the school ski trip because she was good at other sports!!
She wouldn't run in a school cross country race that was taking place on a weekend (she had other commitments, pony to look after) and the games teacher blackmailed her on the grounds that she was letting the rest of the school down, no race = no ski trip. My parents were furious and nearly pulled me from the trip as well. It was another 10 years before she finally got to ski.
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FenlandSkier, that's very similar to Laundrette #2: pulled three ways between pony, skiing and hockey.
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She stuck with the ponies for years, 7 days a week up at the stables (straight there after school and all day at the weekends)and never a complaint about missing out on other things. The ski trip would have been a very rare exception to that.
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Our school did but I never went - parents could not afford it
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I don't recall hearing the word skiing at any time during my schooldays. We had a trip to a little town on the Rhine when I was 13, the first time I'd ever been "abroad". We went by train, boat and train. Cost my parents an arm and a leg. There was a girls' school trip staying in the same hotel and the Beatles' "Twist and Shout" had just been released  I didn't go "abroad" again until I was 26, when I presented a paper at a conference in Budapest.
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Yep, my school did/does. Left this year, but am returning for future trips - have been helping organise them for a couple of years now. We've even got a website! www.cryptschoolskitrips.co.uk
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and ski you will
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