It is important to have parents along on almost all primary field trips in order to ensure adequate supervision. Therefore, your child may sometimes be driven by another parent. Staff ensure that each child has a seat belt, and it is the parent's responsibility to send a booster seat if necessary. Adequate insurance must be in place on each vehicle, and no child is placed in a seat with an air bag. Parents who choose to enroll students in our school are accepting our philosophy, including our policy on safety.
Staff are very conscious of and careful about ensuring the children's safety.
Of course they are always willing to listen to and consider parents' concerns, and appreciate the addition of parents' alertness to problems. We recognize the challenge for some parents to let their children go away overnight, or to trust them in someone else's vehicle. However, having done this for many years, we know the great value of these experiences and judge that for most children, they are positive, progressive steps. After the trips, most parents agree with this. If a parent feels very strongly that there are extenuating circumstances that may prevent any trip from being positive, we are always ready to listen.