Field trip permission slip template v0.1.0
Field trip:
What we'll do:
Please send:
Questions? Contact . Please return the slip below by .
I give permission for to go on the trip to on .
Allergies, medicine or anything we should know:
- I have enclosed the cost, or I have talked to the teacher about it.
- I can help as a chaperone on the day.
A one-page field trip permission slip: the trip details at the top for families to keep, and a slip at the bottom to sign and send back, with a phone number for the day, health notes and a box to volunteer. Print the blank to fill in, copy the words to type your own, or read the filled example first.
A filled example
The same field trip permission slip with every blank filled in, so you can see how it reads. The names, school and details are invented.
Field trip: Riverside Nature Center
What we'll do: A guided walk by the pond, a talk about the animals that live there, and lunch at the picnic tables.
Please send: a packed lunch, a water bottle and a jacket. Wear shoes that can get muddy.
Questions? Contact Ms. Rivera at rivera@example.org. Please return the slip below by Friday 16 October.
I give permission for Sam Lee to go on the trip to Riverside Nature Center on 23 October.
Allergies, medicine or anything we should know: Sam has a mild bee sting allergy; no medicine needed on the trip.
- I have enclosed the cost, or I have talked to the teacher about it.
- I can help as a chaperone on the day.
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How to use it
- Fill in the trip details at the top, by hand or after copying the words into a document.
- Print one for each child and send it home at least a week before the trip.
- Collect the signed slips, and take them on the trip with the phone numbers for the day.
Ideas for class
- Give the exact times you leave and return, and how you are travelling.
- Say what to send: lunch, water, a jacket, the right shoes.
- Make the cost clear, and say quietly that cost will never keep a child at school.
- Ask for a phone number for the day itself, not just the one on file.
- Ask about allergies and medicine on the slip, and take the slips with you.
- Add a box for chaperones, and say how many you need.
- Set a return date a few days before the trip, so there is time to chase missing slips.
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Questions
What should a field trip permission slip include?
Where you are going, the date, the times you leave and return, how you are travelling, the cost, what to bring, and a contact. The returned slip needs the child's name, a signature, a phone number for the day and room for health notes.
Do I still need my district's form?
Check first. Many districts require their own permission or medical form for trips; use this as the letter home that goes with it, or in place of it only where your school allows.
What if a family can't pay?
Say on the slip that the cost should never keep a child at school and that families can talk to you privately. Most schools have a fund for trips.
When should permission slips go home?
At least a week before, with a return date a few days before the trip. That leaves time to remind the families whose slips are missing.
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