School Tour Memories

Big Nasty · 19-05-2011 08:15PM #1

Never really had an inspiring school tour, the ones that stick out in my mind most are Newgrange and Glendalough. Didn't really get a chance to get up to any shenanigans unfortunately but I'm sure some did.........

Tubsandtiles · 19-05-2011 08:16PM

I got the shift on my 6th class school tour

KeithM89_old · 19-05-2011 08:18PM

Remember going bowling in 5th or 6th class up in Blanchardstown, and someone got left behind. No one noticed on the bus trip home, and the teachers only realised when his mam asked where he was.

byhookorbycrook · 19-05-2011 08:18PM

Having to share swimming togs on Inch beach as another girl forgot here. Worse still, she wore them first, ever tried to put wet togs on on a windy open beach!!

Micilin Muc · 19-05-2011 08:20PM

Give that man a can of Coke!

El Weirdo · 19-05-2011 08:20PM

Thought of this straight away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90XLNQXN_74

holystungun9 · 19-05-2011 08:20PM

School trip to France in 1994, oh the memories. In paris ,most of us (14 year olds) had bought these chessy 70's style porno playing cards. When it came to leaving the city, me and my pals convinced the nerdy loser kids that the teachers were going to check our bags and that we would get rid of the cards for them. Ha Ha. Nerdy loser kids.

Big Nasty · 19-05-2011 08:20PM

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

Having to share swimming togs on Inch beach as another girl forgot here. Worse still, she wore them first, ever tried to put wet togs on on a windy open beach!!

Hope it wasn't rag week! :eek::eek::eek:

BroomBurner · 19-05-2011 08:20PM

We were brought on a tour of Mountjoy mens prison. I think the prisoners enjoyed trying, and succeeding, to scare us all by shouting random girls names (we were an all-girls school) and throwing packets of jam at us.

clikityclak · 19-05-2011 08:21PM

Been from the West, Dublin Zoo was always a memorable one this side of the country. Ceide fields stands out as something that was boring and ****e as a child but would probably be interesting now!
Always got an hour of shopping in when you'd buy the cheapest and tackiest of pressies for the mammy aka plastic bird ornament, and a mood ring for myself!!

El Guapo! · 19-05-2011 08:21PM

Went to some "retreat" place in 3rd year, (it was basically a huge field) and the bitch of a teacher fell into the electric fence and screamed like she'd just been shot. I couldn't stop laughin for about an hour.

Big Nasty · 19-05-2011 08:22PM

Tubsandtiles wrote: »

I got the shift on my 6th class school tour

Your first shift? That deserves a thread of its own!

super_furry · 19-05-2011 08:23PM

BroomBurner wrote: »

We were brought on a tour of Mountjoy mens prison. I think the prisoners enjoyed trying, and succeeding, to scare us all by shouting random girls names (we were an all-girls school) and throwing packets of jam at us.

What the....where did you go to school, an American talk show?

Captain_Generic · 19-05-2011 08:24PM

"Remember you're representing your school....."

*Cock in mouth gesture to EVERY pedestrian out the bus window*

admiralofthefleet · 19-05-2011 08:24PM

in 5th class we flew from dublin to shannon, went to cragganowen and bunratty castle then got the train back up, it was brilliant

in 6th class we went to coolure house for a week.

my primary school teacher was one cool bloke

Alter-Ego · 19-05-2011 08:25PM

Two words: Clara Lara

lord lucan · 19-05-2011 08:25PM

Remember going to Clara Lara sometime in the mid-80's. The changing rooms were basically a big shed divided in 2 by a 8 foot high wall. Hop up on a bench,get a boost from my mate and i'm peering over at all the girls getting changed.

Pity we didn't know the art of subtlety,we were caught straight away and had to leg it when they all started shrieking! Great times.:)

holystungun9 · 19-05-2011 08:26PM

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

Having to share swimming togs on Inch beach as another girl forgot here. Worse still, she wore them first, ever tried to put wet togs on on a windy open beach!!

Man, I hope you're a chick!

byhookorbycrook · 19-05-2011 08:26PM

Was just thinking of those Shannon to Dublin flights too! We went to Inishboffin, to discover the hotel had told all the local boys we would be there the wrong weekend and they had all come home-to an empty hotel!!

KeithM89_old · 19-05-2011 08:28PM

Another one was in secondary school, the German class went to visit Auschwitz, a girl asked her friend to use his phone to text someone, he says no, shes says really loudly 'Ah ya scabby jew!!'. The school got banned from ever visiting again.

byhookorbycrook · 19-05-2011 08:30PM

I worked in a two teacher school and to keep costs down all the mammies and grannies came along (cue three hours "shopping".) We all hired boats at Clara Lara and tried our best to capsize each other for the day. Got a bit wary when I saw a rat swimming alongside though

scudzilla · 19-05-2011 08:33PM

I grew up in Wales, during the last year of Primary School (Aged 10) the school, in there infinite wisdom, decided our end of year trip was gonna be to Alton Towers (Big Theme Park)

We were all sooooooo fcukin excited, till we got there, and realised that only 1 of us met the minimum height requirements for the bigger rides.

The teachers had a great time and went on everything while we had 4 hours on the feckin teacups :mad::mad:

Bastard Teachers

Br4tPr1nc3 · 19-05-2011 08:33PM

delphi in 4th year.

i also remember a lad in my class being caught rubbin one out on a school trip to paris.

good times!

BroomBurner · 19-05-2011 08:33PM

super_furry wrote: »

What the....where did you go to school, an American talk show?

They were meant to take us to the womens prison, to educate us against taking the crime route (the school wasn't actually a bad one at all), but it was undergoing refurbishment, so the mens it was! There was one prisoner sweeping the floor and chatting to another guy about how he had knifed some girl - just to freak us out. We were all about 15/16 at the time.

The best trips were primary school trips to Mosney though, let off the bus, told to do what we wanted and be back at the bus 4 or 5 hours later. Unsupervised Mosney joy. We went every year for three years.

chicken fingers · 19-05-2011 08:34PM

Wasn't that place owned and operated by a convicted pdf file?

The King of Moo · 19-05-2011 08:34PM

Was supposed to go on some manner of replica Viking boat in Athlone but as I recall it sank or got damaged before we arrived.

So our teacher regretfully informed us that we'd instead have to make do with going on...

IRELAND'S ONLY HOVERCRAFT!!!

For a 10 year old *somewhat* nerdy kid it was fantastic and the closest thing to a sci-fi vehicle in the real world at the time!!

Little did I care that the actual experience of being on a hovercraft is pretty much the same as being on a boat.

Man, f***ing hovercraft!!

Rubberlegs · 19-05-2011 08:36PM

Stinky egg sandwiches on the bus (mine:o). Singing that " every where we go..oh, the people always ask us, who we are, where do we come from?" song. The tours that I remember most are Newgrange, Kilkenny Castle, and being on Bettystown beach, Co. Louth, and Kilmainham Jail.

Chris P. Bacon · 19-05-2011 08:37PM

I vaguely remember going to some caves in Kilkenny,Dungarvan or something?

Tubsandtiles · 19-05-2011 08:37PM

MCMLXXV wrote: »

Your first shift? That deserves a thread of its own!

Don't get me started on the 4th and 5th class school tour

admiralofthefleet · 19-05-2011 08:39PM

chicken fingers wrote: »

Wasn't that place owned and operated by a convicted pdf file?

which place?

the vatican?

Aishae · 19-05-2011 08:39PM

oh - armagh observatory was fun. unusual. we didnt get proper trips most years after 1st year so that was a treat. the school budget and planning went to sports events.

i did enjoy the trip to the national heritage park in wexford. and i recall a summer camp trip (camp from my local school when i was 11) to fort lucan

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