I can’t believe that trip was 2 years ago! We just had a repeat, this time to Piha, and over a number of days the entire school took part.

I went with my daughter’s class - 8-9 year olds. They did several activities and inbetween were taken up onto the beach for instruction (and a head count?) while the parents broke ranks and went body surfing.

At the end we let the kids wander up and get changed while we snuck off with the boogie boards and took an extra 10 minutes for some surfing.

Some parents were dubious about their own involvement at first but afterwards we all had big, silly grins on our faces. This has to be the best school trip on the calendar!