A report about the Malacca trip by The History Society of SMK Semerah

On 24 August 2008, The History Society of SMK Semerah has conducted an educational trip to Malacca. This trip is joined by 30 students and 3 teachers. Malacca is known as The Historical Town of Malaysia. It is a good opportunity to bring the students to know more about the historical places at Malacca. The purpose of the trio is to visit the historical places and to gain awareness besides appreciating the the value of the historical places. Among the places that we visited is the Kota A.Famosa, Muzium Samudera, and other historical places around Malacca town. This included Muzium Baba dan Nyonya, Taman Portugis, dan Fort Cornwalles. This trip is conducted on 24 and 25 August 2008. It is a 2 days and 1 night trip. This trip is conducted during school holidays. During night, the students are overnight at the hotel. For this trip, we are gone by bus. 1 Bus is enough to take us along the journey. The participation for this trip is about 30 students. This include the club members, the committee, and the non members of the club that interested to join the trip. This trip also joined by 3 teachers, Mr. Lim as the trip leader, Mr. Hassan , and Mrs. Lina. Mr. Hassan is accompanying the boys while Mrs Lina accompanying the girls student. For this trip, each students has to pay RM 30. This include the transport and hotel. During the trip, the problem occurred is lack of participant. This is because the trip is held on school holiday. Many student say that they has an own trip of holiday. The school not help to promote and encourage students about this trip. The benefits of this trip is the students can get knowledge about the historical places. Besides the students also learn about the history and to preserve the historical places.

This education trip is a good activity. All the historical places bring student to learn about the history that has happened to our country long ago. Student also get the lots of valuable knowledge of aged culture ago. In my personal opinion,I hope the trip like this must be continued for every years. On behalf of the history society,I would like to thanks to our teacher and fellow students for all their support and co-operation given during this whole activities.

Objective of the Trip:

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Detail Plan:
a) Nature of trip, Regular Curricular and Extra-Curricular. b) Trip destination and duration. c) Dates for trip- they should not clash with important activities of the school or events of national or social importance like religious festival etc. d) Necessary approvals, form school authorities, parents. Writing letter to parents regarding planed trip. e) Mode of transport , ticketing/ advance booking. f) Meals and lodging facility at destination. g) Formation of student group and appointing senior student / staff member as a supervisor. h) Preparing the list of students participating in trip with emergency contact detail and relevant medical details of students. i) Preparing the budget for the trip. Considering all expected expenditures and accordingly deciding the amount to be collected for participating students. (sample available) j) Charting the detail itinerary and sharing with all participating students and providing them the copy. (sample available). k) First aid medical kit. l) Preparing the check list for all activities (sample available).

FIELD TRIP PLANNING GUIDE

The following areas are recommended for consideration when planning field trips: Program: Relate the field program to the classroom program Outline the purpose and objectives of the trip Provide a brief summary of the educational activities involved in the field trip People Involved: Number of students, staff and other adults Dates and Times: Departure and return Location(s) for departure and return Phone chain plan notification of delays, changes, etc Regular School Program: Coverage of regular classes and other duties for teacher on the trip Appropriate program for students not on the trip Arrangement for students who miss regular classes due to participation in the trip Finances:

 Expenses: transportation, accommodation, meals, rentals, admission fees, and miscellaneous Revenue: fund raising, student charge, board support Advise parents of all costs Safety Procedures: Medical facilities in the area Medical qualifications of staff First aid kits inspected Staff qualifications for high risk activities On site safety procedures Complete awareness of student health information Appropriate health insurance if out of Manitoba Appropriate assistance if special needs students on the trip Communication system in place cellular phone, radio, minimum daily check in place such as an airplane fly over in the wilderness area Trip Itinerary: Accommodation: date/location/telephone numbers Meals Mode of transportation and route Special arrangements/attractions/events Students Personal Needs: Appropriate clothing/toiletries Consent Form: Consent and medical forms must be collected before students depart on the trip. If leaving Canada, be certain that any students born overseas have proper forms with them. Prior to Departure: Final list of participating students left in school office Trip supervisor has master list of all student information

Impact on the student

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Problem faced in trip

Meals It was difficult to arrange food which was acceptable to all. Some were strict vegetarian and some wanted non veg in all their meals. Some had preference for fast food and some had choice for full meal. Local travel in local travel in city it was difficult to find local conveyance to move as number of students were could not be accommodated in 2- or 3 taxies / autos.

Managing the time schedule- students were spending more than schedule time at any place. It was really to difficult to adhere to the time schedule of the day.

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