IJOA Field Trips

FIELD TRIPS

The School Committee recognizes that firsthand learning experiences provided by field trips are a most effective and worthwhile means of learning. It is the desire of the Committee to support field trips as part of and directly related to the total school program and curriculum.

The Superintendent will establish regulations to assure that:

1. All students have parental permission for trips.

2. All trips are properly supervised.

3. All reasonable safety precautions are observed.

4. All trips have a written description of intended outcomes for the academic or co-curricular program.

5. All trips, and arrangements for them, have advance approval of the Principal. The Principal shall not approve trips that are privately organized and run without school sanctioning. Field trips that will cost individual pupils an amount in excess of $50 shall have the prior approval of the Superintendent before any plans are communicated to pupils and parents. Those in excess of $100 cost to individual pupils must have prior approval of both the Superintendent and the School Committee before any plans are communicated to pupils or parents.

Adopted: 11/20/70

Revised: 10/13/09

Approved: 11/30/09

SOURCE: MASC

Cross Reference: JJH