Parents anger as rug pulled on school end of term treat

Parents at a Blackpool school are unhappy over the way a promised school trip to the Pleasure Beach Resort ended up with half the class being told they could not go.

- by Richard Hunt

They say the trip was proposed for the Year 6 class at Mereside Primary Academy as an end of year treat, and the children had been looking forward to it.

Parents said they understood the trip was planned on the understanding that it was a rewards-based incentive, requiring good behaviour from the pupils.

But the group of parents say the way youngsters were told at a late stage that they could not be going, while others would be allowed to, was harsh and left a bitter taste among pupils and parents.