School trip

[Tartan Blaster]

Ok my school has just brought into place a new intiative scheme where pupils get stamps and stamps convert to day outs etc etc so what I am looking to go and do is try and get them to make paintball an option for those days off.
Now I've already organized one school trip paintballing and managed to get 70 people from half of a year so I'm pretty sure I can convince them that it is an effective reward but at that time all the pupils were footing it out of there own pockets so if I'm going to get the (state) school to foot the bill I will need to cut down the price to a level where the pupil only needs to pay a bit extra.
so what I was hoping to say to my local site owner to try and get prices down would be
bout 300 punters 3 times a year
during the schoolday and during spring autumn winter (not the busiest of times)
we'll give out leaflets to 1000 kids from mainly upper middle class homes who all want to have the coolest birthday parties
and that the lower the price the more people will come.

Now I was also thinking to add to that the teachers who come along (I think there has to be 1 per 20 kids) could fill in for marshals as I thought that insurance wise it only reuires one reliable person with first aid training per 15 punters (as long as theres still enough marshals to explain the rules and safety etc.) but does anyone know if this would be allowed?

So basically does anyone know if thats correct, whether you think it would work in getting a few quid of the cost per person and do you have any other ideas for trying to get money off the price?

Oh and also I want to also try and promote tournament paintball as much as possible so will be there full gear with ego and will see if I can get the site owner to get a sup air field up. But also wanted to be running videos to advertise the trips and on the day to show people tournament paintball but most paintball videos will have one of the following cheating, babes or alchol and I doubt these would be appreciated so what is the cleanest most virtuous paintball vids out there?

 

[lemonadeX]

I doubt the site would allow teachers to pose as marshalls - *If* something were to happen to one of the kids then the site owner will be liable, not the teachers.

Don't mean to be pessimistic, but it sounds a hellova job for 1 schoolboy to organise/coordinate (don't mean to be patronising either, but you can see what I mean).

A good idea though - To promote paintball more

-Will

 

[Sid_Clan]

Okay problem with this is simple, if a site is staying within the boundaries of the law they must have 1 marshal to 15 players, personally I use 1 in 5-10 max, asking three people to run 45 kids is just stupid. On my site I would have min 4/5 staff on this out on the field. As for teachers taking up marshals positions again this should not happen on the site, the teachers have no training within a paintball site and where they may be sensible and level headed would they know what to do if say a marker runs out of co2, or a ball jams, or someone picks up paint, you get my drift? Your insurance is in place and covers groups, if teachers are effectively working for the site this opens up a whole can of worms.

We run alot of school groups through our site from all over, local and not so local, also charity groups. I think it is unproffessional to have members of the party marshal, regardless of stature.

Good thinking behind it, but I think maybe speaking to whichever site you use would be the best bet before you take this any further.

Sid

 

[Ollz - Jnr]

my school goes on paintball trips liek 3 times a year no lie

 

[stevenrules]

where do you go to school ollz

 

[Tartan Blaster]

Well what I was thinking was that I can't fill out their insurance requirements since I'm too young yet would know enough about all the required elements to do the job so me plus teacher would count for a marshal. Yet if you think its a bad idea then the site will probably say no so I will scratch that idea (it was abit optimistic to begin with) and I will be speaking with the site in abit just don't want to start by asking questions that will be dismissed out of hand which would increase the chance of the entire idea being dismissed out of hand.
Also don't worry lemonade no offense took but I managed to do it once before with reasonable sucess (and there it was dealing with the coach company that was the real pain) but hopefully I only need to organize it once and will then have all the dates, permission slips, information letters and prices all sorted out which would make it easier.
Finally ollz do you have to pay for your trip, ias it a state or private school, how many people go out of how many pupils and how far away is the site? (if its not too much trouble )

 

[lemonadeX]

Congratz on doing it before and not saying it can't be done again, just won't be easy with so many people involved

Again though, I doubt even somebody with good paintball knowledge such as yourself would be allowed to marshall if you don't actually work there.

-Will

 

[Sid_Clan]

Well what I was thinking was that I can't fill out their insurance requirements since I'm too young yet would know enough about all the required elements to do the job so me plus teacher would count for a marshal. Yet if you think its a bad idea then the site will probably say no so I will scratch that idea (it was abit optimistic to begin with) and I will be speaking with the site in abit just don't want to start by asking questions that will be dismissed out of hand which would increase the chance of the entire idea being dismissed out of hand.
Also don't worry lemonade no offense took but I managed to do it once before with reasonable sucess (and there it was dealing with the coach company that was the real pain) but hopefully I only need to organize it once and will then have all the dates, permission slips, information letters and prices all sorted out which would make it easier.
Finally ollz do you have to pay for your trip, ias it a state or private school, how many people go out of how many pupils and how far away is the site? (if its not too much trouble )

You have to 16+ to marshal......it's the law

Sid

 

[trenzo]

we get school groups in and they have a name list of everyone who is in the party left behind the counter. then you put a tally next to the persons name who has just got paint of you then the teacher responsible for all of the students pays for everything (nice and easy for the site) and then the school sort it out amongst them selves by billing the kids later on. also its good news for the site as the kids pretty much have unlimited paint so dont care how much they shoot
the schools pay the walkons and the kids buy their paint.
i dont think many kids are gonna say no to that, it's either a day at a paintball site shooting there friends or a day in a classroom listening to teachers...
and if your gonna promote tourny ball i would simply take a copy of pgi with you and then on the bus journy home chat to people and show them there is more to paintball. they will be more likly to listen to you then as they will be full of it, wanting more, everyone telling you they took out 20 guys out in one swift move. ahhh

 

[Ollz - Jnr]

where do you go to school ollz

fairfax