To ask what you think to this school new rule?

unless they have an illness i dont understand the need for it all day

they have a break at 11 dontg they

Exactly this. We are all capable of going a couple of hours without a drink.

I agree, there’s no need to have access to water continuously unless there is a medical need. When I went to school we had milk at morning break, a drink at lunchtime and that was it til going home! We all survived.

I agree with this rule.

Medical exceptions, as illustrated on this thread - no problem. Everyone else - it will be a good thing.

Having been a teacher, I can tell you that a class full of water bottles does not aid anyone’s concentration! Quite the opposite!

Exactly this. Children don't need to be constantly slurping water, and they should only be going to the loo at breaks, not during lessons. It worked perfectly well for decades.

There's no evidence that persistent access to a water bottle "improves concentration".

On the contrary, a class of children regularly disrupting a lesson to get up and wander over to their water bottle/go to the toilet - THAT reduces concentration.

When my stepson (now 31) was at school they introduced it as it improves concentration

I think that you should ask the school if this is true and what this means in practice.

Assuming that y1 have free access to water, I think that your response should depend on how often y2 would get water (if they want)

If you worked in school, as I have, as a teaching assistant for over 20 years, you would understand the reason for this new rule . The constant interruptions that occur because of claims of needing a drink are absolutely unbelievable. It’s disruptive for everyone - the child wanting the drink, the teaching/ support staff and very often the rest of the class as someone ( or even multiple children) is getting up and wandering around the classroom etc. I have been teaching small groups of children where on some occasions as many as 60% leave what you’re doing in order to fetch a water bottle & drink. By Year 2 they should be able to manage the gaps between periods which are considered to be learning times without being desperately in need of water, unless of course there is a clear medical need.

Where has this obsession with kids having water in school suddenly come from? I can’t remember my 2 having water bottles and I know I certainly didn’t. I genuinely don’t understand what people think will happen if kids have to wait until lunch or break times to have a drink? I’d hate to be a teacher with them faffing around every two minutes and having constant interruptions because someone always wants a drink.

I would really like to see some actual scientific evidence-not sponsored by a bottled water company, which the initial 3 litre a day idea was-about the amount of water we need and what happens to us if we go a couple of hours without drinking.

I would be telling my kids to ignore that particular rule, and to drink, and go to the loo when they need to

I agree with limiting access to water bottles, no need to be drinking every 5 minutes but I really don't agree with limiting toilet access, kids going in to year 2 are 6 years old, far too young to be making them wait a long time.

Why do kids need water bottles attached to them though? I don't get it. We never took a water bottle anywhere, I never even owned one as a kid and now I send one everywhere my kids go! This rule would be fine by me.

Perfectly sensible. I think it's daft they take water bottles in at all. Water fountain available in breaks and jugs on the table at lunch would be much better

Some children spend half the lesson getting up for a drink and then going to the toilet.

having to wait half an hour for a drink until the lesson finishes isn’t going to harm anyone.

I think it’s a poorly thought out rule.

Since dd has specific instructions from her neurologist to consume a certain amount of water each day, I would message them and get them to issue a note so dd could keep her water bottle.

Depends if they allow exceptions for medical circumstances- DD has to drink tons because she suffers with bowel issues and if she doesn’t drink loads she gets constipated and then she gets bowel leakage which is awful
for everyone. Her school is constantly trying to get her drinking!

Presumably they also make exceptions in extreme heat. But for a healthy child in average weather conditions it’s fine I think.

Sounds sensible to me, children often use it as an avoidance technique so much better to have certain times they can refill. They won't dehydrate if they have a drink at break and lunch.

Yeah. I hear ya,

Ridiculous. If they had access to a toilet anytime there wouldn't be any accidents.

Primary school so guessing say start at nine break at 1030 lunch at say 12 until 1 then another break at 2 then home at 3.
How long will they be without their water? Hour and half at the longest?
What's the issue?

When I was at school drinking during lessons was unheard of, have bodies changed so much that they now can't survive ?