education provided on any trip that takes place outside school hours if it is part of the National Curriculum, or part of a syllabus for a prescribed public examination that the pupil is being prepared for at the school, or part of the school’s basic curriculum for religious education; supply teachers to cover for those teachers who are absent from school accompanying pupils on a residential trip; transport provided in connection with an educational trip. * If a pupil fails, without good reason, to meet any examination requirement for a syllabus a charge will be made. Activities for which charges may be made: Activities outside school hours Non-residential activities (other than those listed in 3.1 above) which take place outside school hours, but only if the majority of the time spent on that activity takes place outside school hours (time spent on travel counts in this calculation if the travel itself occurs during school hours). Residential activities Board and lodging costs (but only those costs) of residential trips deemed to take place during school time. However, pupils whose parents are in receipt of certain benefits (see point 3 below) may not be charged for board and lodging costs. Residential trips deemed to take place outside school time (other than for those activities listed above). Is a residential trip in or out of school time? If the number of school sessions on a residential trip is equal to or greater than 50 percent of the number of half days spent on the trip it is deemed to have taken place during school hours (even if some activities take place late in the evening). Whatever the starting and finishing times of the school day, regulations require that the school day is divided into two sessions. A day” means any period of 12 hours ending with noon or midnight on any “half day. When any trip is arranged parents will be notified of the policy for allocating places
education provided on any trip that takes place outside school hours if it is part of the National Curriculum, or part of a syllabus for a prescribed public examination that the pupil is being prepared for at the school, or part of the school’s basic curriculum for religious education; supply teachers to cover for those teachers who are absent from school accompanying pupils on a residential trip; transport provided in connection with an educational trip. * If a pupil fails, without good reason, to meet any examination requirement for a syllabus a charge will be made. Activities for which charges may be made: Activities outside school hours Non-residential activities (other than those listed in 3.1 above) which take place outside school hours, but only if the majority of the time spent on that activity takes place outside school hours (time spent on travel counts in this calculation if the travel itself occurs during school hours). Residential activities Board and lodging costs (but only those costs) of residential trips deemed to take place during school time. However, pupils whose parents are in receipt of certain benefits (see point 3 below) may not be charged for board and lodging costs. Residential trips deemed to take place outside school time (other than for those activities listed above). Is a residential trip in or out of school time? If the number of school sessions on a residential trip is equal to or greater than 50 percent of the number of half days spent on the trip it is deemed to have taken place during school hours (even if some activities take place late in the evening). Whatever the starting and finishing times of the school day, regulations require that the school day is divided into two sessions. A “half day” means any period of 12 hours ending with noon or midnight on any day. When any trip is arranged parents will be notified of the policy for allocating places