Volunteers

Guidance for Volunteers for School Trips

If you have any questions about a school trip, please see the class teacher. We do appreciate your help on school trips – it would be difficult to organise visits outside school without parent volunteers. Please see below some guidance for parent volunteers in relation to helping to support school trips.

• Parents may not always have their own child in their group.
• Mobile phones and cameras are not permitted to be used.
• All children need to be treated equally e.g. your own child cannot be given food/sweets.
• The teacher will give parent helpers a list of children for whom they are responsible.
• All children are told that they must stay with their group and the group adult at all times.
• If the trip involves a coach journey, please help the children in your group to put on and fit their seatbelts. Children are not allowed to eat or drink on the coaches. The class teacher has sick buckets/bags, if needed.
• The class teacher is responsible for ALL first aid and medication. The class teacher leads the rules, routines and expectations for the day. Please help the teacher by ensuring your group follows all instructions e.g. when to eat and drink.
• If there is a medical or other emergency, let the class teacher know immediately. The class teacher is responsible for contacting the school in emergency situations.
• If you need to leave your group for any reason, please inform another adult.
• If appropriate, children will be permitted to bring their own money on the trip. This should not be supplemented in any way nor gifts bought for individual children or groups.
• Parent volunteers are asked to keep the same degree of confidentiality as in school. If you have any queries or problems concerning the trip, please direct these in the first instance to the class teacher, or if you would rather, the Headteacher on return from the trip.

Thank you!

In case we forget to say, please be assured that we really do appreciate your help. If you have any worries, queries or good ideas on how we can improve something, please let us know – we are always willing to listen.