Sending your child to London

Can you not take her yourself next time we have a game on in London.

Yes have done that before. She was really into Egyptian history when they did it at school, so we went to Arsenal away and stopped over so I could take her to the British Museum as they have loads of Egyptian stuff.

It was the novelty of going with her mates rather than me that she was keen on.
 


Yes have done that before. She was really into Egyptian history when they did it at school, so we went to Arsenal away and stopped over so I could take her to the British Museum as they have loads of Egyptian stuff.

It was the novelty of going with her mates rather than me that she was keen on.

It also gives them the feeling of independence and starting the process of becoming adult enough to be trusted to do stuff without worried parents. They do not know you will worry about them whatever their age. Not until they are in similar position years down the line.
 
I've done this trip for the last two years. We take 80 year 7 pupils and 8 members of staff, on 2 coaches. We don't use the tube purely for the logistics of getting 80 kids on and off, the coach gets us as close as we can to our destination then we walk them.

We set off from stockport early morning, arrive just after dinner, go to a museum, pizza express then a west end show in the evening.

Off to a hotel for around 11.30pm, the kids are sent straight to bed in groups of 3's or 4's. They are under strict instructions not to leave their rooms unless its an emergency, they are given the room numbers of staff. They are also given the mobile numbers of 2 school mobiles which staff carry in case they need to get in touch.

The next day is a tour of the globe theatre then Harry Potter world before getting back to school about 9pm.

After the Westminster attack a couple of years ago there were some parents who took their kids off the trip and got a refund, however there were enough on a waiting list to take their place and get it back up to 80.

To go to London with the school for 2 nights. I wouldn't entrust my 10 year old to teachers to look after them overnight in London.
Wonder what the teacher / kid ratio is
10:1
 
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Don't know if it's still there but didn't the scouts HQ used to be around the corner from Euston?
Don’t know about their hq but they had a hostel in sarf ken when I worked there about 30 yrs ago.

We went in the first year comp, one day the teachers dropped us off at Richmond or some f***ing place and said meet us back here at 4 before disappearing into the pub..

We found some outdoor/fishing store and stocked up on black widow catapults and flick knives and shit. Spent the rest of the day running riot until we met the coach back to MC at 4 o'clock. We found some wasteland with an oil drum and shot fuck out of that while others went on a shoplifting frenzy. It was f***ing mental looking back....

Imagine that now man with their yellow hats and bibs :lol:
Do shops ap Norff have “no more than two schoolchildren at a time” signs in them?

Years ago i played on the same fire brigade team as him when we had an inter station tournament. He'll have been in his 40's while we were all in our 20's.

You could tell he still had It, f***ing great player..

However we got knocked out in the group stages, unfortunately he couldn't calibrate his magnificent footballing brain to our level of shitness so we drew 2 and lost one...



Bastard squads...
Me dad reckoned we brought four top class players through then. Todd, Tueart, Stronach and Park. Two lost too injury. Charlton rated him anarl he reckoned.
 
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I hate to interrupt the standard Sunderland-bashing on here but a cursory google reveals that cancelling school trips to London (and elsewhere) because of terrorism fears is a nationwide problem
i'll add the context of a sunderland football club based message board... i could have said newcastle\north east\england\great britian...

the subtle bashing i was aiming for were the wearside daily mail reading brexit voters - our own basket of deplorables.
 
I go there regularly with work and spend a fair bit of time down there (Kings Cross / Euston) area. It's completely run down with rubbish and litter everywhere, homeless and drunk/derelict people every 10 yards. The tube is crazy busy and dated with ignorant arseholes charging around barging people out of the way everywhere they go. There's a real danger of being mugged, assaulted, robbed or ran over on the streets. Other than that it's fine. In my opinion t's no place for a 10 year old from 300 miles away to go without their parents, but i understand that's just my opinion and that others (as this thread has shown) will have no problems sending their kids. I wouldn't try to change your mind and you wont change mine.

Bit like any other ‘world city’

Walked from Kings Cross to Euston last night and it didn’t look run down to me in fact it’s improved a lot over the years.

Apart from me I didn’t notice any other drunks every ten yards .. and didn’t feel in any danger of being mugged.

There was the odd homeless person, not half as noticeable as there are in Newcastle. Have you been there?

Changed trains from Sunderland after the Birmingham game and went for a pint near Central the drunks and homeless every ten yards were a Lot more noticeable than Kings Cross
 
There were Muslims singing in Glasgow cathedral yesterday. Their harmonies were spot on and it was amazing to listen to. The utter bastards!
 
I go there regularly with work and spend a fair bit of time down there (Kings Cross / Euston) area. It's completely run down with rubbish and litter everywhere, homeless and drunk/derelict people every 10 yards. The tube is crazy busy and dated with ignorant arseholes charging around barging people out of the way everywhere they go. There's a real danger of being mugged, assaulted, robbed or ran over on the streets. Other than that it's fine. In my opinion t's no place for a 10 year old from 300 miles away to go without their parents, but i understand that's just my opinion and that others (as this thread has shown) will have no problems sending their kids. I wouldn't try to change your mind and you wont change mine.
This is one of the biggest loads of shit I've ever read on here. Which is quite something.
 
why?

It's a Youth Hostel set up for school use with their own secured corridor. It has rooms and bathrooms for all the children and teachers. Once they're in on a night, the corridor door will be locked so nobody can get in and nobody can walk off. Seems safer than a Premier Inn to me.
Only thing would bother me would be locked corridors. If there was a fire you are not meant to be locked in.

Chilly mornings?
:lol:
 

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