WorksheetsEducational Visits Quiz
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
What is an EVC?
(a)
What is the first thing you need to consider when planning a school trip?
The cost.
How far away it is.
Why you are doing it.
How will you get there.
When completing the Risk Management Plan, what is the best way to work out the risks and hazards?
Ask the venue to carry out a risk assessment on your behalf.
Ask another school who has visited the venue.
Ask the venue for their risk assessment.
Visit the venue yourself.
Are there specific legal requirements regarding the ratio of supervising adults to children on a school trip?
No - there are only guidelines and the number of adults required will be confirmed by the EVC, taking into account a range of factors including the students, location and nature of the visit.
Yes - the ratios are stipulated by law dependent on the age of the students and the EVC can tell you what these are if you forget.
What do you do if a parent wants to collect their child from the visit venue?
The student is a sixth former and can meet their parent.
Ensure the parent has sent a copy of their ID and ask them complete the Transfer of Duty of Care form on collection.
Meet the parent with the student at an agreed location and carryon with the trip.
Advise the parent that this is not possible and the student must return to school on the coach.
How could you ensure that your group is easily recognisable?
Ask them all to wear brightly coloured clothing.
Ask them to wear yellow hats.
Provide students with a lanyard to wear.
Ask them to stay with their group leader.
How often should you carry out a headcount of the pupils?
Whenever you get on or off transport, before leaving a venue and at regular intervals during a trip.
Once before leaving the school and at least once before leaving the venue.
Every hour.
Getting on or off transport.
What information MUST you LEGALLY carry on a trip with you?
Full list of group members and the contact details of their parents/guardians.
The itinerary for the day.
The phone number of the coach driver.
A waterbottle and spare set of clothes.
A child is injured on a trip you are accompanying. Who would you inform initially?
The school med centre.
The Trip Leader.
The Head of Department at School.
The Head of Co-Curricular
What is the minimum required for First Aid during a trip?
You must carry a First Aid kit.
There must be someone in charge of First Aid and there must be a suitably stocked First Aid kit.
You must carry a First Aid kit which includes paracetamol, ibuprofen, sun lotion and treatment for bites or stings.
There must be a qualified doctor or nurse at the venue.
A student asks you for some ibuprofen for a headache. What do you do?
Give them an ibuprofen. They are lucky that you have one in your bag.
Offer them some water first and begin to monitor closely.
Tell them that the headache will pass and see how they are later in the afternoon.
Let them go to the chemist across the road to buy some ibuprofen themselves.
You are accompanying a Geograpaphy field trip and two students get into a fight. Who would you inform initially?
Pastoral
The Heads of Year
The Head of Department
The Trip Leader
Is it acceptable for students to be driven to off-site activities in private vehicles by other pupils.
No - this is not acceptable.
Yes - you must check that they have a full driving licence and have no points.
What is an EC
(a)
What must be done after a trip?
Return trip packs for shredding, delete content from phones and complete a post trip evaluation.
Throw away trip packs.
Gossip and complain about things that may have gone wrong to everyone.
Take the next day off because you deserve it.
Which fruit is most assosciated with educational visits?
Avocado Pear
Orange
Lemon
Grapefruit
