Notes for Parents and Girls

The headings below are brief reminders of the important details concerning your trip to Germany.

Documents
Passport, EHIC card, medical information, School Code of Conduct

Pocket money
£70 (€80) should be sufficient. Please take Euros as there will not be a lot of time to go to the bank. Responsibility lies with each pupil

Valuables
Please do not take expensive items of jewellery, watches etc, especially if of sentimental value

Mobile Phones / iPods / mp3 Players
May be taken for the journey, but not to be used during visits and certainly not when in the company of host family

Cameras
Please be sure that you know how to use it

Clothing
Take casual, comfortable, warm but respectable clothing, please. Shoes – will they still be comfortable after 6 hours of walking?! The weather in the middle of March can be changeable – make sure you have a warm, waterproof coat / jacket. Please remember to bring a towel.

Luggage
1 suitcase (medium sized) + 1 piece of hand luggage
N.B. Handbag or shoulder bag / rucksack should have zip pockets for purses etc, and will have to be carried on day trips. It will have to be big enough to carry your packed lunch

Remember to pack your passport in your hand luggage!

Families
Addresses will be distributed around 10 days before departure. Every effort is made to comply with our requests for accommodation, but please be flexible.

Phone calls to host families should be made only in cases of emergency, and girls should remember that they are guests in somebody’s house, and refrain from asking permission to phone England. After day excursions you are guests of the family. This is the time to get to know your hosts and speak as much German as possible.

Food
Meals provided by families, including packed lunches on day trips. Please try the food, especially the things you don’t know!

N.B: Journey out from England – please take enough food to last for a day. (Restaurants/ cafeterias at the stations may be expensive.) Take some extra Euros for use at service stations.
On the journey home – some English money will be needed for drinks/ snacks during the journey.

Behaviour
Read and sign the code of conduct. We expect girls to be self-disciplined, mature and courteous, so that everybody will enjoy the visit. No girl may arrange to go out on her own, or with friends. There is to be no smoking or drinking of alcohol.

Illness
In case of illness between now and departure, please inform staff in writing of the nature of the illness and any medication prescribed.

Emergency phone number
Please inform staff of an emergency contact number if you are going to be away from home or work during our visit and if this is going to be different from the one given on the consent form.

Advice to Students
Please make sure you have read the leaflet and the code of conduct and that you take both of them with you on the trip.