School dinner ladys wearing uniform in playground

[Euribia]

I work at a local primary school where I know a few parents who are dinner ladys i keep noticing they wear their uniform when dropping their own kids off and then they go home and then come back at lunchtime. Do you feel this is appropriate. Im not sure whether to mention it to our head

Yes, they're not allowed to wear their aprons outside (or too the loo) but everything else is worn all day. The same applies in our school kitchen.

They bake their own bread in your school?? Wow that's impressive

My mum was a dinner lady - she and the team got in trouble with the health inspector for exactly this. Outdoor clothes should not be worn in the kitchen (and vice versa). It's bringing all of the germs and contaminates of the outside to a food preparation and serving area (paraphrase of inspector's words).
Same reason why I feel yuk if I see a chef in his/her whites outside the back door having a fag.
OP you've been unfairly derided here I think - although whether you want to be the one who points it out to the head/kitchen/environmental health inspectors is another matter.

I don't think working a in a school kitchen is anything particular to show off about. Maybe if it was a NASA uniform or a judge's wig?

Also don't they spend the morning cooking the food? Rather than go home for any length of time?

Hygiene wise presumably they wear an apron of some sort that stays within the school kitchen, other than that I don't think it's a problem to wear the same trousers etc.

Who cares - you think they are just showing off that they are dinner ladies because it's such a coveted role! Give them a break they are working minimum wage for a couple of hours a day. You must be a right misery.

Definitely a matter of opinion, I and others have been in stitches about some of these comments. If you can't see the humour in being accused of showing off for wearing a dinner lady uniform, (and the subsequent replies) like they are prancing round the playground trilling "look everyone, look at me", then I feel a bit sorry for you........or we just don't share the same sense of humour, that's fine. We're all different, let people enjoy a giggle.

Ps name change by any chance?

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our school cook makes everything from scratch and is in from early morning baking shortbread, making bread, making pastry, chopping veg, layering lasagnes, chopping and peeling spuds, making up the salad bar etc.
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She also prepares all the fruit/milk etc for morning snack time. It's a full on job and not just a turn up a few mins before the lunch bell goes type thing and that's for a small rural primary.”

Thats remarkable. A state school?

Oh and our dinner ladies don't cook, they give out prepared meals which is the case in lots of schools so they cooking/hygiene comments may not even be relevant!

she is being derided because she said they are showing off/seeking attention

I was a “School meal supervisor” aka Dinner Lady, ‘playground division’. we wore Bright Green nylon coveralls.
The kitchen Dinner Ladies wore white cotton cover alls with green and white striped aprons, white hats with hair nets. White shoes.
The Playground division started work fifteen minutes before school lunch Time and ended fifteen minutes after so 90 minutes in total.
The Kitchen staff started at 9.00 am, prepping, preparing cooking the food, some foods were pre prepped in a central kitchen then distributed to schools to be cooked or te heated, depended on what was on the menu. They rotated, one day a group would be on the hatch, serving the food, the next they’d be in the kitchen. After lunch they cleared up, washed everything down, leave samples of the days food out for environmental health to collect for analysis for food hygiene purposes.
Food hygiene was taken very seriously. Clean overalls every day, washed at least 60 degrees.

There's not a changing area in a school kitchen though is there. Where would they get changed? The toilets?

Maybe those are the rules where you are but I know for a fact they aren't the rules in our school. They come in dressed and wear an apron. They are handing out pre-prepared meals. The op wasn't concerned about hygiene she just thought the dinner ladies were showing off by earing the uniform. I suspect they are just tight for time and so get dressed into it first thing rather than changing.

School staff room had a small changing area in the school I was in but the uniforms were coveralls worn over clothing, the coveralls were clean on every day.

Or maybe you should - I don't think you know the policy for the whole country. Definitely not a requirement for dinner ladies where my kids go to school.
Also, the op was clearly put out because she felt the dinner ladies were getting kudos for wearing their uniforms and she wanted to report this to the headteacher - she deserves every single snarky response she gets.

I had to Google what a reverse was the other day when someone mentioned it on a post (I'm so not mumsnet-clued-up yet)... But....have I found one here? OP is dinner lady and some other mum has complained that they think OP is showing off by wearing her dinner lady uniform at school drop off time? 🤔

I worked in a school kitchen briefly a couple of years ago. We absolutely had to get changed into our uniform at the school (in the kitchen toilets). No one told me about this, and decided it was a good idea to severely tell me off for it. One of the many reasons I left.

No, I'm not a sock puppet, and I have a very good sense of humour, but thank you for your interest.

I just happen to think 'letting people enjoy a giggle' at someone else's expense is immature and bitchy. Some of the posters on this thread are coming off like school playground bullies tbh. If you think it's fine to sneer at other people in the guise of a so-called 'giggle' then we definitely don't share the same sense of humour, and I'm glad of it.

And if you've really been 'in stitches' over this thread, you need to get out more.

Everyone seems to have missed that this is a primary school where children spend 50% of their time shoving their fingers into each others noses and ears. I doubt a few more germs are going to make a difference when the places are already a soup of horror.

In which case I can only assume she’s jealous because she doesn’t have a school polo shirt. As a colleague she could see this as a positive endorsement of their shared workplace.

Oh here she goes. If you are complaining about who is being immature and bitchy then maybe reread the OP's original posts (unless you wrote them). Plus you seem full of vitriol so not sure it's any of us with the problem.

I find a lot of things funny and I like being amused. Saying you have a good sense of humour doesn't really rimg true, and not a good defense in your case.

By the way I really don't care but

"And if you've really been 'in stitches' over this thread, you need to get out more"

is bitchy....and snide. I have no doubt you can't see it because, that's what bitchy, hypocritical people are usually like.

It they are kitchen staff then yes I think it's unhygienic, if they are dinner hall staff telling the children to line up and clear their plates then I wouldn't be so bothered.

I'm guessing your PFB has just started reception!

Get a real problem ffs

HNRTFT but this in a nutshell!

Thank you for acknowledging school dinner ladies hard work in helping children. School dinner halls can be a big and noisy scary place when your’e four/five, presented with food you’ve probably never seen before, sat with people you’ve only known for a short time and just want your mum.
I loved my job and even now some of my charges remember me if I’m at the shops etc.