[ben_w]

> One time I recall seeing a group of school children, presumably on their way back home to the Isle of Wight after a day of school on the mainland

Depending on when this was, I might have been one of those kids. Back in… 1995?[0] My school in Havant sent us there for a week to some activity centre whose name I forget, where I was knocked unconscious by a trampoline.

[0] Such a nerd that I am, the week containing Wednesday 29 March 1995, which I remember because of which episode of TNG my dad recorded for me to watch later.

[swores]

You've misread the type of children they saw - an awful lot of schools, like yours, did (do?) trips to Isle of Wight and that activity centre, but the comment you replied to was talking about seeing kids who lived on the IoW doing their daily (presumably) commute back from their school on the mainland.

[n4r9]

I know that PGS students sometimes travel over from the IoW, but is that mainly because it's one of the only private schools in the area? Do state school students make the journey as well?

[ginko]

>Such a nerd that I am, the week containing Wednesday 29 March 1995, which I remember because of which episode of TNG my dad recorded for me to watch later.

But TNG ended in 1994..

[ben_w]

UK air dates were about 3 years later than US air dates:

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Power_Play_(episode)

[Geisterde]

Sounds like a cool dad.