Field Trip Guidelines for Volunteers
Field trips are an important aspect of your child’s Montessori school experience. We appreciate your interest and willingness to accompany us on these trips. Without you, they would not be possible!
Below are some guidelines we have developed to help ensure the trip goes smoothly and safely:
Supply insurance provider information form at least one day prior to field trip. Submit this form to your child’s Room Parent or classroom teacher.
Supply cellular phone number to teacher or room parent, if available, and keep phone with you and powered on throughout the field trip, unless otherwise required by field trip location (ie. theatres).
Arrive by the time specified so departure can be unhurried and orderly.
Review the guidelines and ask questions if you are uncertain of the details.
All children must be in seat belts, so you will only be assigned as many as you can accommodate in belts. No child can sit in the front seat if there is an airbag in the passenger side of the vehicle. Children under 8 years of age (unless they are over 80 pounds in weight) must be seated in an approved car seat or booster seat.
You will be provided with a list of the children for whom you are responsible. Keep it with you. Do a head count before departing the school and again before departing the field trip location. Use a walking line and have buddies hold hands. Special care must be taken in public parking lots. Be sure children stay in the car until you are ready to supervise them outside of the car.
The teacher may ask you to oversee the group during the activity. Be aware of safety hazards and supervise the children accordingly.
If the teacher (or assistant) is attending, be sure he/she has arrived before letting the children out of the vehicle and into the field trip location.
Follow the directions to your field trip destination. It is important that all drivers follow the same route. DO NOT: detour from this route, take children to any other destination, or leave children unattended in a vehicle.
Do not smoke while on the field trip. If you are transporting children, other than your own, do not smoke during the drive to and from the field trip destination.
Remember to have fun and share the joy and enrichment that field trips provide.
Please be sure to notify the teacher and teaching assistant for any inappropriate behavior or if a child has gone with someone else (parent, etc.).
THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!!
