‘What was the most bizarre school trip you ever went on?’ – 23 excursions that were more eccentric than educational

13.

‘I also went on a school trip to my own house because we lived by a river where you could see a lock. I had to travel to school, then walk home with my whole class, then walk back to school with my whole class, and then walk back home after school. The next day at school, I had to write my mum a thank you letter for letting me visit my own house!’
–crypticspanner

14.

‘We went on a geography trip to a local town. We counted the cars that went into a Sainsbury’s.’
–Temporary_Eye_9758

15.

‘This was the 80s. Head teacher took just five of us to see a canal (during a half term no less). He took us in his car and as I was the smallest, I had to go in the boot there and back. Didn’t think too much of it back then, as an 8/9 year old, but it’s crazy to think something like that happened, even back then.’
–FearlessBanana81

16.

‘I went to Diwali when I was in Year 5 (back in the late 90’s) which was about 30 minutes away from our small COE village school. The whole thing was such a culture shock for all of us as there was literally 60 kids in our entire school (there was six in my entire year) but I absolutely loved it. I don’t remember much from when I was young but I remember a lot of that day. The temple, the sights, sounds and smells. Happy memories.’
–ImSoFookinGreat

17.

‘Bible World in Edinburgh. At one point we climbed through a hatch into a time travel simulator. We all had seatbelts on and I was ready for a terrifying Universal Studios style ride.

All that happened was they played a VHS (on a small TV) about Jesus.’
–The_Final_Barse

18.

‘Cat D prison for sociology and psychology A Level students. It was such an odd experience it now feels like a fever dream.’
–daria90

19.

‘Went to a museum, teacher disappeared, and we spent 40 minutes in the gift shop because she was on the phone sorting her MOT.’
–Footbe4rd

20.

‘Whitby for an ‘revision’ trip before Y6 SATs. We were all staying in a run down, freezing cold B&B with a creepy old woman owner. The teachers took us on a, frankly, terrifying Dracula walk one night and spent the rest of the night dealing with traumatised 10 year olds. One of the lads had sourced a set of false vampire teeth and was making rounds of the dorms. Chaos.’
–cockerspannerell

21.

‘We got the ferry over to Calais and went to look at a big concrete bunker. It was just a bunker with no information or lights or anything ‘historical’ inside. The man spoke French for about 15 mins, shrugged and then left us.

We got back on the coach and went to a hyper market instead. I bought a massive Babybel the size of my head.’
–lookhereisay

22.

‘When I was in the Brownies we visited a newly built prison. This was in the early 1970s and I was amazed that there was a telly in every cell. I told my parents that, and my dad moaned about it to anyone that listened.’
–WoodSteelStone

23.

‘I’ll never forget one school trip where we went to the Commonwealth museum in London, one particularly resourceful child bought a pair of chopsticks in the gift shop and set about lifting banknotes from the donations box. He got caught and the teachers went crazy as expected.’
–broadarrow39

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