when you were at school did you

[Samcro]

drink water?
was reading a thread about it and it made me think.
back in the 70's when I was at school, I think we just had a drink at lunch time and that was it.

Was at primary school in the early 90s and I specifically recall we weren’t allowed to have more than two small cups of water at lunch. Asked my mum about this the other day and she said she remembers it too, parents were specifically told it was to minimise the risk of ‘accidents’. Can’t believe that nowadays.

Was at primary school in the early 90s and I specifically recall we weren’t allowed to have more than two small cups of water at lunch. Asked my mum about this the other day and she said she remembers it too, parents were specifically told it was to minimise the risk of ‘accidents’. Can’t believe that nowadays.

Nope! School from late 80s to 2000 and I don't ever remember having drinks other than milk at primary school and then water at lunchtime.

Nope.
Never drank a thing.
In primary we used to get a carton of milk to drink in the morning.
Then maybe half a glass of fluid at lunch and then nothing til I got home.
Same in high school. Only drank at lunch, and even then only a few sips. Maybe I just dont need a lot of fluids.

Primary school mid 1980s. As others have said, we had drinks either in our lunch boxes or with school dinners, but I don't remember drinking at other times. There were water fountains, but don't think they were used much.

My mum did bring a flask of home-made squash with her when she collected me, which I remember gulping down, so I think I was thirsty at the end of the day. One time she didn't bring it with her as she'd come straight from the shops, so broke off the end of a cucumber for me to have instead .

In primary, early to late 80s we had lovely clean powerful water fountains. I often used them they were lovely and ice cold.
At secondary there were water fountains but they were dirty and water dribbled out of them. Most people took drinks, used the can machine or nipped to the canteen or snuck out of school to the shops at lunchtime, this was in the days when school grounds were open.

It’s a recent thing, I started school in the late 90s and we had a water fountain per every two classrooms plus a water jug at lunch. When I was in my final couple of years at school we got a filtered water dispenser per classroom and our own cups which we were encouraged to fill up every couple of hours but before that it wasn’t common at my school.

I was thinking this the other day. We didn't get thirsty either and I don't remember drinking water from the jugs on the table at lunch.

Although I do remember my Snoopy flask in my lunchbox, but that probably didn't have anything in it.

We only had milk in the first year of infants (Thatcher). I remember at primary school, at lunchtime you could buy a cup of squash for 8p, and there were water fountains which I remember using quite a lot - there were long queues out of the school for the fountains on hot days, and in the fourth year juniors you got to be a "water monitor" and stand by the fountain counting "one two three...stop!" to keep the queue moving. I probably took a flask of squash in as well, vaguely remember that. The cool kids took Capri Sun.
Secondary on the other hand I don't have any memories of drinking. I suppose again that I took a flask since I had packed lunch but no memory of what it looked like or what was in it. I think in the canteen there were metal jugs of water on the tables and you could have cups of water, but I didn't often eat in the canteen, usually in the classroom (illegal!) or outside. There was a machine dispensing plastic cups of tea, coffee and squash and I do remember using that sometimes, and then later we got a machine with cans of Coke - exciting.
Anyway in conclusion I think I drank a reasonable amount. But secondary school, because it was an hour journey each way, if I had only drunk at home I would have not had anything between 7.30am and 4.45/5pm.

People just don't need to drink that much. If you drink a lot then your body seems to crave it, I have never been as thirsty as when I made a conscious effort to drink more!

I can't remember being able to have a drink of water at school. 1950's
We had milk provided, but I don't like milk, it makes me sick, so guess I never had a drink at school !

I started school in 1959. We had the horrible milk which I avoided where possible, this was still available, although voluntary, at secondary school btw. For school dinners there was water from a metallic tasting beaker which I also avoided. If you had a packed lunch you would have a bottle of squash. In the 6th form only prefects had access to tea and coffee making but my friend and I were allowed to boil a kettle in the art room (not many did Art A level).

Now I drink cups of tea or herb tea but not much water although I've been drinking cordial in the hot weather. I believe one of the early pieces of research about drinking lots of water was sponsored by a bottled water company and the recommended fluid intake also includes food. I appreciate that people aren't having much soup or stew in this weather but normally it would count.

Same 80s/90s school. Squash at lunchtime in my flask. I'd have had a small cup of tea before school and the same with a biscuit when I got home from school. I don't remember being thirsty. All of my younger colleagues are obsessed with drinking as much water as possible but I'd be peeing constantly if I drank like that. You do not need 8 large glasses of water per day. You eat quite a lot of water in your food anyway!

Play school was a bottle of milk for mid morning carpet time. Not sure if I had dinners there but if I did a small bottle of juice or something, primary school one drink in packed lunch box, did have water fountains in the toilets but I never used them. I can't drink out of the same bottle as someone not even family members so why would I want to put my mouth anywhere near a manky looming water fountain. Plus the water was warm inside it and tasted that it had filtered through the toilet. Secondary school, would buy one from tuc shop in a morning, depending on where I went for dinner either shop for a drink. Those little plastic cup drinks with a straw in them were cheap so we'd get a couple or a glass of juice or cup of tea at a friends house. Again water fountain that I never touched. I managed to survive on just a few drinks during school time. Even now at work I'm often going 6-7 hours without a drink at all

Lunchtime only.

Milk at break time, there were water fountains around the school, I remember using them occasionally. And water jugs at lunchtime, except sometimes we'd get strawberry milkshake if it was iced buns (I think) for pudding. The excitement of primary school! This was in the 80s.

School in 60s. Milk, often warm and in the hottest weather, sometimes off and undrinkable, at morning break and that was it. Water not even available at lunch.

Started school in 1960. Milk at break (including in secondary) and jugs of water with thick glasses on the tables at lunchtime. In hot weather we used to beg the dinner ladies to refill the jugs and sometimes they would - I remember her saying that she couldn't understand why we wanted to drink so much water, she could understand if it were pop!

Then nothing in the afternoon (and we finished a 4 o'clock) then a half an hour walk home before we could get a drink. Except for in hot weather I don't recall being thirsty and we were certainly never dehydrated.

Milk at break, cup of water from a jug at lunch and water fountains if you were still thirsty. This was in the 70s.

Nope. I started school in 1985 and we only had a small flask of squash at lunchtime. I can remember being so thirsty that I’d ask to go to the toilet and use my hands to scoop water from the tap I’m sure this wasn’t unusual either.

I'm sure a lot of it was to do with preventing accidents and limiting toilet trips. I remember even as a 4/5 year old in my first year of school we were only aloud to go to the loo at break times. Unfortunately a lot of schools still operate like that, whilst encouraging kids to drink litres of water all day

*allowed

Secondary I was in the ME and we all had water bottles all the time, filled every recess

At primary here though, late 80s it was whatever was in our packed lunch, usually Um Bongo carton or a flask of squash.

Nobody drank from the water from the drinking fountains!

I also grew up not being allowed water with meals. She still won't allow water on the table.

I don't drink and eat at the same time, it feels odd, although I put water out for visitors. When there is wine with a meal I tend to sip it between courses rather than between mouthfuls.