do schools allow non-milk drinks in for snack times?

[misdee]

dd4 is a long way off school atm, as not even 2, and know she could outgrow her milk allergy by the time she starts school.

the girls school offer milk in keystage 1. i was wondering how dairy allergic children deal with this? do parents send in little carons of non-milk alternatives? i have seen some oat/soya/rice milks in cartons with straws. was wondering if schools allowed these in, as most i've seen tend to be flavoured rather than plain.

I'm not sure. I know in our school the children who don't like milk get a glass of water so allergic children would probably get the same.

dd1 (in reception) has a friend whose mum brings in little cartons of rice milk for her dairy allergic ds to have at snack time.

dd was very jealous that he had chocolate milk, so they obviously don't mind flavours.

my dd primary school was a no no-so she has to have water and each year when she has gone back in september she moans about how unfair it is!!

DS (Now in yr1) had a friend who was allowed to bring in soya milk in a little sippy cup.

But for a child who had problems with soya too the choice was just water

TBH I am having the same worries as DD (2.7) is severely intolerant to dairy, soya & oats.

I am hoping they will allow some of her neocate in a sippy cup

Oooh where can you get cartons of rice milk???

That might be an alternative for DD

ah my mistake, the little cartonms of oat milk, was actually oat cream

provamel do small cartons simpson. think they do a rice one.

Most schools allow non-milk drinks but the policy (and enforcement thereof) varies wildly by school even within the same Council area. Talking to the school is the only answer.