School trip planning guides
Checklists and routines for the parts of a school trip that go wrong when nobody plans them: the overnight, the head count, the chaperones and the medical forms.
- Overnight school trip checklistA checklist for an overnight school trip, in the order things come up: roster and medical details, rooms, buses, chaperones, families, luggage tags, bed checks and the trip home.
- How to do a head count on a field tripA head count routine for field trips: a number for every rider on each bus, one shared list for every chaperone, a count at every stop, and one message to staff with the names of anyone missing.
- What to tell your chaperones before a school tripA short briefing for school trip chaperones: getting into the trip app, knowing their group, taking attendance, what to do when a student is missing, where to meet, and how students reach the adults.
- Student medical information on a school trip: what to collect and who sees itWhat medical and emergency information to collect for a school trip, which adults should see it, how to have it with you when there is no signal, and when to delete it.
Looking for how to do something in the app? The help center has step-by-step articles for organizers, chaperones and families.