**IJOA-R - FIELD TRIP REGULATIONS AND GUIDELINES K - 12** **Last Updated Date:** 04/29/2014 **Adoption Date:** 01/10/2006 #### Guidelines 1.         Field trips should reinforce the learning experience and must be correlated with the curriculum of a particular grade to be approved.  Thus, each field trip request will be accompanied by a clearly stated educational rationale. 2.         Care should be taken to maximize learning that can occur from a field trip by proper classroom preparation for and follow-up to the experience. 3.         Teachers should take advantage of local sites. 4.         With permission of their principals, teachers may take their classes on new trips or additional trips that are preferred for their grade level or high school course. #### Regulations 1.         Teachers will clear all field trips with their principal prior to any planning. After verbal clearance the teacher will submit a plan for final approval on Form A. (See IJOA-E-1) 2.         Final approval will be based on the educational merit of the proposed field trip as presented in Form A. 3.         Under normal circumstances all students in grades K - 6 will participate in the same field trip as selected from the reserved field trip list. 4.         Duplication of field trips should be eliminated except in the case when a particular choice offers a variety of programs. 5.         Blanket permission slips for walking trips shall be sent home for parental consent. 6.         Permission of a parent/guardian is required for a student to participate in a field trip. 7.         There will be at least one chaperone for every eight (8) students on a field trip at all grades except high school. If, in the opinion of the building principal, the nature of the field trip requires it, additional chaperones shall be used. 8.         On trips within a twenty (20) mile radius of South Hadley, students will be permitted to sit three (3) to a seat as long as the size of the students will accommodate this. For more distant trips, students will be seated two (2) to a seat. 9.         Smoking and alcoholic beverages are prohibited. * Depending upon the availability of funds.