Social Science Really crap school excursions

[SweetLeftFoot]

Keep em coming. Genuinely LOLing at some of these.

 

[Tormented Tiger]

Remember being dragged to St Moritz for ice skating. Hated ice skating.

 

[Xtreme]

I remember doing Sovereign Hill during primary school, don't remember every activity.... but i doubt i'd find it exciting today .

Got to visit the cricket a few times, multiple shield and ODI appearances throughout primary and high school. Some were wrecked by the weather. Also the MCG tour is fine the first time, maybe even a second time to see stuff you may have missed..... but having been on the tour 4324709 times, it gets a little old (/runs away from the lynch mob).

Went to a roller skating place once, at that time a lot of people were not thrilled with going around in circles.... many people wound up being sick during that trip. While the group i was in, chose to play a variation of sports (attempted soccer ) while wearing the rollerskates.


I didn't actually attend many school camps, knew that they were a waste of time. I remember hearing and seeing video of one such camp in year 9, made famous by one of Jim Stynes' early appearances with REACH. It didn't go down well with the majority of students .

Also in year 9, we got to go see Men in Black at the Village cinema at Crown. Movie was ok (funnily enough i got sick of it not long after the vhs/dvd came out ), being stuck with everyone + the shonky teachers was an annoyance. As a side note we got to go get something to eat.... not knowing the time - most of us (including myself) didn't have time to actually eat ALL of what we had purchased before we were told that it was time to go back . Most people still snuck their food on the bus, but i was busted and along with a few others had to throw what we had in the bin. Despite the protests (throwing away $$ spent on buying it), we still had to.

Because we were reading the diary of Anne Frank in school, the entire year level went to visit and hear some people who grew up around that time talk about their experiences. Being a touchy subject, everyone was expected to be on their best behavior, it didn't stop a fight breaking out before we entered the building, and at the very end of the trip.


As a side note, one subject i had at school was more on recreational sports - we'd be at a location once a week to a fortnight. Did everything from indoor rock climbing, played pool at a pool hall, swimming, ice skating, laser skirmish (zone 3 - those were the days!!) - our final trip was spent in Time Zone of all places .

 

[LarryBrown24]

Went on a field trip to a university and instead of hanging around where the hot chicks were (which was pretty much everywhere) we were stuck below ground level checking out the university's air conditioning system

 

[Dont be a lemon]

Went to the box factory once. Was really boring so I wandered off into the neighbouring TV studios. Met a clown and got me a job

 

[Viva la Mattner]

Year 7 camp to Victor Harbor was terrible, didn't get to do anything interesting.
The 2 main things i remember is that me and 4 mates had to share a room with 5 others, a door divided it into 2 rooms, one the guys in my room decided to spray half a can of lynx under the door and one of the kids next door had an ashtma attack, we got a bollocking from the teachers!

also one of my classmates was given $5 to run naked through the caravan park and go in the pool (which nobody was allowed to go in because no teachers had lifesaving certs) considering the pool was pretty damn shallow we were all pissed off big time.

 

[pepsi]

I didn't actually attend many school camps, knew that they were a waste of time.

Really? I always looked forward to school camps, always one of the highlights of the school year and was something good to look forward to. I remember having great fun on camps in both Primary and Secondary school. Might have had something to do with the fact that my family hardly ever went on holidays or trips. Best camps for me:

Year 11 ski camp to Mt Buller - First trip to the snow was awesome.

Year 8 camp to Tasmania - Great place, cadbury factory a highlight, as well as about 15 students chucking on the double decker bus afterwards. Port Arthur night tour was great also.

Year 7 camp to ACT/Sydney - First time for me out of the state for me so it was always going to be memorable. The cable car down the blue mountains, ferry through the harbour to Manly, the AIS, Government house, Nth Narabeen beach all highlights.

The thing with school camps, always a great time to hang out with mates and play practical jokes and stay up for as late as possible eating junk. School camps was one of the better things about school.

 

[Embers]

I got food poisoning at both my primary school and high school camps. Buggered if i know how I got food poisoning at my high school camp. I DIDNT EVEN EAT ANY BLOODY MEAT!!!!!

 

[Kerrby]

Went to the box factory once. Was really boring so I wandered off into the neighbouring TV studios. Met a clown and got me a job

God, you're annoying.

 

[Knife Wrench]

CERES, some greenie w***ers shithole in East Brunswick with drop dunnies. Went there TWICE

Hey me too, didnt happen to be Plenty Valley?

Also, parliament house when i was only in primary wasn't so good...the whole year level ended up being so rowdy due to boredom we were banned from all excursions for the rest of the year... i really wanted that playground excursion too..

 

[Plugger35]

Really? I always looked forward to school camps, always one of the highlights of the school year and was something good to look forward to. I remember having great fun on camps in both Primary and Secondary school. Might have had something to do with the fact that my family hardly ever went on holidays or trips. Best camps for me:

Year 11 ski camp to Mt Buller - First trip to the snow was awesome.

Year 8 camp to Tasmania - Great place, cadbury factory a highlight, as well as about 15 students chucking on the double decker bus afterwards. Port Arthur night tour was great also.

Year 7 camp to ACT/Sydney - First time for me out of the state for me so it was always going to be memorable. The cable car down the blue mountains, ferry through the harbour to Manly, the AIS, Government house, Nth Narabeen beach all highlights.

The thing with school camps, always a great time to hang out with mates and play practical jokes and stay up for as late as possible eating junk. School camps was one of the better things about school.

You went on some pretty good camps compared to me. Our Year 7 camp involved going down to Bussleton, about 3 hours south of Perth, which I'd already been to plenty of times before and since so wasn't that exciting. Our Year 8 camp just involved going up to Sorrento which is basically just a northern suburb of Perth.

Unfortunately there aren't many options when you live in Perth as it's so bloody far away from everywhere. Going interstate is a major trip that costs thousands of dollars for flights and accomodation. In Year 11 one of our teachers organised a ski trip to Mt Buller but only about a dozen or so rich kids could afford it as it was a couple of grand, I wasn't one of them.

 

[darsh!]

Had to see Mean Girls at the cinema for Drama or something, could have killed myself i was that bored, heard someone got diarrhea from eating in the food court so that was lol worthy.

Also in year 12 we had our camp to central Australia canceled because it was the same year as all the religious young people came to Australia (youth week or something) so the ******s in control decided that we should go to sydney for that, turned out only like 2 students were aloud to go so we were all pissed we lost our last camp together. An excuse the school gave was it was too much of a distraction for VCE....

 

[pepsi]

In Year 11 one of our teachers organised a ski trip to Mt Buller but only about a dozen or so rich kids could afford it as it was a couple of grand, I wasn't one of them.

The Buller trip was not cheap, but I remember I didn't go on the year 10 camp so that I could afford to go. I remember saving money from my part time job to go to that camp, but was worth it. I think it was about $600 for the 4 days we went.

 

[SweetLeftFoot]

Had to see Mean Girls at the cinema for Drama or something, could have killed myself i was that bored,

Apart from the fact that its got a shit hot script written by Tina Fey, at what point can you get bored with Mean Girls even if the volume is turned down?

 

[Syrah]

For Melburnians of my age (school in 70s and 80s), Old Melb Jail, Polly Woodside and Captain Cook's Cottage were regulars. And Sovereign Hill of course - best part was eating the big bag of boiled lollies on the way home in the bus.

 

[kaysee]

In the 80s I recall 2 crappy excursions:

Exhibit A)... for Science we went to a Sewage Treatment Plant... suffice to say it smelt like shit.

Exhibit B)... again for Science we went to Penrice Saltpans... huge area in Northern suburbs of Adelaide where they harvest salt from the seawater. Boring as anything I can think of.

 

[Shell]

I work at a high school so I still have to endure these crappy excursions!!!

The one that stands out is, again as it has been metioned already, lol, Werribee "Water Treatment" plant, I think its called. Soooo dull. And yes it stank.


When I myself was at high school the camps were by far the worst. All we would do is go camping and go bushwalking and thats it. ****ing boring. . Primary school camps were heaps better, doing stuff like horse riding, archery, ropes courses, etc etc...

Cant really recall any other really terrible stuff.. at another school I worked at, they had end of year excursions which were AWESOME!!! We got to pick and choose what we wanted to do; things like Luna Park, Bowling, movies, etc.

 

[Jonesy10]

Another one, not as bad as some of the other ones mentioned in this thread, but we went on an excursion to Monash Uni last year. When we got off the bus the teachers gave us all maps of the place, then said cya later and they all went off, probably to go have coffee somewhere. It wasn't too bad, but we were there for 2 hours so it got pretty boring just wondering around...

But on the upside we did get to go surfing one day, and to the Game On exhibition at Fed Square.

 

[wce_all_da_way]

On a school camp to Rottnest Island, we were made to check out the sewage facilities there. There was ****ing tanks of open shit and you had to walk along railways past it. Girls were vomiting and the head teacher was telling people to toughen up, as it was just a bit of smell. Pricks.

 

[Selective Retention]

We did plenty of camping and bushwalking at school as well. It depends where it is really. We did Freycinet and the Tasman National Park down near Port Arthur and they were both pretty good, probably because they were coastal. The Douglas Apsley sucked big time, walking for 3 days through that hell hole.

 

[Costanza_]

We did this awful bus tour of Sydney's suburbs for Geography in Year 8 (I think?). We were doing some unit about 'socioeconomic diversity' so they saw fit to load us on a hot bus and spend seven hours driving through suburban streets to supposedly give us some insight into how the paupers out West live.

 

[Damon_3388]

A few bad ones:

• On the way to our Year 4 camp at Victor Harbour (85km from Adelaide), we stopped at Polana Deer Farm. The farm consisted of some deer standing behind a fence. We spent three hours there, and as 9-10 year olds were somehow meant to be amused/entertained by this.
• During our Year 5 camp at Wellington (about 105 km from Adelaide), we went to a place called The Roundhouse, which was at Murray Bridge, about 25km from where we were staying. The Roundhouse was literally a house that was round, that was really old and had some old photos in it. We spent three hours there, and as 10-11 year olds we were somehow meant to be amused/entertained by this.
• During Year 8, we went to Parliament House here in Adelaide as part of our Studies of Society and Environment class. We got shown around the building for about two hours, then sat in on Parliament for about 2 minutes before we had to leave. We were there to learn further about how our State Government works, but it was totally pointless, because we didn't actually get anything other than some time off of school and someone talking about and showing us how old Parliament House is.
• My Year 9 camp was to Kangaroo Island. KI is decent for touristy stuff, but for 14-15 year old boys who couldn't care less about that, driving around in a hot bus (35 degree heat in the middle of November) and getting shown every single inch of the island for a week isn't exactly what you'd call a good time.
• We went on a bushwalking camp somewhere in the Adelaide Hills in Year 10. We had a choice of a bushwalking camp, canoeing camp or rockclimbing camp, and somehow this was the most attractive option to me. Anyway, it poured with rain every night, which caused all of the two-man tents to collapse at one point or another. We could only bring canned food, which we had to cook on a fire. And we had to expell this terrible canned food into a longdrop. We also went on a group bush walk where 3 or 4 people somehow got totally lost. They were out there well into the night, which led to the police being called and a search being conducted. Eventually they were found, and they each got to go home early, while the rest of us stayed and endured another few days of total boredom.

Also, it seemed like so many other people I knew from other schools went interstate and even overseas for school camps, but my primary and high schools never even left SA. Probably wouldn't have been able to afford to go interstate or overseas anyway, but it would have been nice to have at least had the option. I even went to the same camp site (at Port Elliot, 84km from Adelaide) during both Year 7 and Year 8, even though my primary school and high school weren't related.

We did this awful bus tour of Sydney's suburbs for Geography in Year 8 (I think?). We were doing some unit about 'socioeconomic diversity' so they saw fit to load us on a hot bus and spend seven hours driving through suburban streets to supposedly give us some insight into how the paupers out West live.

We drove around Adelaide's suburbs for Year 12 Geography. Wasn't too bad, but considering I'd seen it all before (travelled through all of it playing school and club sport), I learnt nothing new.

That cricket story from Simon_Nesbit was gold as well

 

[Ben the Gooner]

We went to the Supreme Court for Commerce in year 10 and got to see a murder trial.

Except that the morning we were there, Juror #6 hurt her leg and couldn't climb into the jury box, so they adjourned til the afternoon in another courthouse.

We got treated to the defence lawyer saying that his client didn't mean to break into the victim's house and shoot him in the middle of the forehead, then went back to school.

Truly riveting stuff.

 

[SweetLeftFoot]

For Melburnians of my age (school in 70s and 80s), Old Melb Jail, Polly Woodside and Captain Cook's Cottage were regulars. And Sovereign Hill of course - best part was eating the big bag of boiled lollies on the way home in the bus.

Polly Woodside! I wanted to burn that bloody thing by the end.

And Captain Cook's Cottage ... they'd also make you go ansd look at that truly awful minituare village that's also in the Fitzroy Garden.

 

[SweetLeftFoot]

Excursions to the zoo as well.

At Melbourne Zoo, they have that enclosed butterfly house thing.

One year we went and the resident radge in the class (the mad kid when ends up in jail) brought a can of Mortein and started spraying all the butterflies before being wrestled to the ground by zoo keepers.