To create a fuss about my son not having access to water today in school

He knows how to get his water bottle returned to him, stop fidgeting and disrupting other children's learning.
Get him told! Rather than pandering to him, educate him to sit still, listen and get on with his work.

You say your son figits a bit. Have you ever seen him in a school environment? Perhaps was constantly fiddling with his water bottle disrupting the rest if the class. Low level disruption in a class can be really destructive so making hin put the water away was probably all the teacher could do. If he was thirsty he should have drunk his fill at break time.

It sounds like your child is struggling to make the right behaviour choices and then complaining that there were consequences. I expect he was allowed to go to his bottle a couple of times during the afternoon, he's just being stroppy as he didn't like not being allowed to keep it with him. If he hadn't messed with it, disrupting and distracting the class he would've had it on the table like the others. As a parent I'd be explaining that today he needs to behave.

Maybe on this occasion try backing the teacher @Icantfeelmyface and say to your boy he needs to try not to fidget if he wants to keep his privilege of access to water outside of break and lunchtime?
teacher may like it and it may save the head some work?

I also genuinely don’t remember my DD having a water bottle in the classroom @Icantfeelmyface Big drink at breakfast, water fountains at school, lunchtime drink and then sometimes I’d meet her at school gate with a drink/ juice box on warmer days.
Water bottles in the class room sounds like a temptation and a pain for the teachers and they’re never far from a break and a drink.

So he can kick it, and so can the others at the table.

Everyone saying it didn't do you any harm.. being thirsty allt he time in the 70s and 80s when you are a small child was really shit. The dinner ladies at our school used to stop us using the fountains at break time too. Our only liquid was warm in homogenates milk which we would get into trouble for if we didn't drink it. It was awful. People used to smoke in our face then as well, is it ok for that to happen to a child now?

Don’t forget the almighty, deafening clang of a metal one bouncing off the table and onto the floor. I duck and cover every time! 😬😂

Well, you generally don't die from it twice tbf.

If I close my eyes I can still smell, and taste it now... uuuuugh.

Sorry OP, agree with PP's here, if he only had a few sips at lunchtime he was clearly not thirsty - tell him he must have a good drink at break and lunch, as well as before school. And not fidget with stuff.

To be fair, the people who did die aren't on MN ;-)

I let my class have water bottles in the classroom today - on the floor by their chairs only. I also told one of them to put his back and ask for his drinks when I spotted him squirting water all over the floor on purpose. Once when he asked me I was in the middle of giving instructions so said no. I dread to think what he told his mum - I’m expecting a summons from the EHCR in the morning. Oh well. They’re nine by the way.

OP needs to work with her son on learning coping strategies so he lessens the fidgeting

And? I grew up without water bottles and had constant 30 degree weather for months in school. This is getting ridiculous. A couple of days of hot weather and it’s like an Armageddon.

So you totally and utterly believe word for word what an eight year old told you with full context? There is one born every minute.

I have children. They aren’t always key witness reliable- you should know that.

Don’t be one of those parents. Cause frankly you are on the verge.

Children (and adults as well probably) should be drinking a whole drink roughly every 90 minutes rather than constantly sipping. A continence specialist nurse told me that she is seeing an increase in children with continence problems because they are sipping from water bottles and their bladders are tiny because they aren't drinking proper sized drinks.

Not even in the summer of 76!

God people banging on about what they used to do forty years ago is boring. We've moved on.

6 years olds fidget, it's normal. He should have had more access to water during the day like every other child. It's not a reward for not fidgeting.

The end.

You are being melodramatic. Presumably he could have had another sip between the afternoon lessons if he was thirsty.

Sorry but the teacher has 20+ other kids to educate and sounds like your DS is being disruptive. A couple of hours without water won't do him any harm and will maybe teach him there are consequences.

Even ‘few sips’ irritates me lol
Have a bloody drink fgs - down a blinking cupful , wipe your mouth on back of sleeve and crack on for a few hours! Xx

I babysat my DGC tonight - all 5 of them and the faff at bedtime of the waterbottle lugging and tiny sip faffing - also the sound of the plastic on the teeth of the two little ones drove me potty.
I took the bottles away and brought up a mug of water each and told them to have a proper drink and then go to sleep and then removed the mugs.
Bloody bottles were more of a distraction than anything discouraging actually quenching their thirst property before laying down thirst satiated and going to sleep!

by law he needs to be able to access water if he needs it. A couple of sips on a hot day which reached 32 degrees centigrade is not enough. I’d ask him not to fidget with his water and the teacher to ensure he has water access. Explain he had non today.

You could get a drink from the tap in the classroom if you asked but the water was vile. It tasted and smelled like when you leave a glass of water sitting too long and was lukewarm. I think it was stored in a water tank.

Make contact with the teacher first to get the two sides of the story.