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dd just started reception,i've had a letter that says....

17 replies

motherbeyond · 23/09/2010 13:08

...please provide a named water bottle for your child,this will be sent home half termly to be washed.

do you think this mean that this is the ONLY time the bottles will be washed?
if so,aibu to think, eeeeyw,that is fucking gross,and no i will not provide one?!

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sfxmum · 23/09/2010 13:09

ask ours we take home everyday unless dd forgets, don't really trust school to wash them properly

onepieceoflollipop · 23/09/2010 13:10

Ours is sent home weekly (rinsed and refilled daily from what I can make out). Once a week it really needs doing imo.

Can you not just ask your dd to bring it home every Friday?

paisleyleaf · 23/09/2010 13:11

One school I went to look around for a open evening must have done this. There were 30 bottles all on the draining board, been washed up in the class at the end of the day.

Hassled · 23/09/2010 13:11

I think they probably mean you can pick it up any day you like, or every day, to be washed, but the school will make damn sure they're all washed at half-term regardless. Some kids do just leave the water bottle there all the time, and don't actually drink from it - I'm surprised life hasn't evolved in some of those bottles. One day they'll have a slurp and there will be tadpole-type things :o.

Chil1234 · 23/09/2010 13:14

YABU to not send a water bottle ... Dehydration is a big problem for little kids packed in stuffy classrooms all day.

emptyshell · 23/09/2010 13:14

Just take it home whenever you want to - they'll probably be washing them out in school at the end of each day anyway by the sounds of things (mainly because it's a heck of a lot easier for a TA to empty/fill bottles than the kids to try to get the tops off some of them - I've broken so many nails opening waterbottles myself and I'm an adult).

Sounds like they send them home half termly just along with PE kits etc but have something going on in-school on a day-to-day basis, just slightly badly worded.

I can understand why they're not sending them home every day though - I've spent so many mornings drying off the contents of bookbags where water bottles have leaked on the way into school. If you want it home every day, or every week to shove in the dishwasher then do it - but please do the "named" bit! Nowt worse than when half the girls in the class have the same pink one and none have names on.

thisisyesterday · 23/09/2010 13:16

that is beyond manky!!!!!

there is no way i would only wash it half-termly. how disgusting.

and i say this as someone who is not anal about cleanliness at all! lol

i would give her one to take in each day and make sure you take it home each afternoon, that's what ds1's school does

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motherbeyond · 23/09/2010 13:31

hmmmmm,we're not allowed into the school (the parents have to stand behind a white line on the playground-i often wonder what would happen should one of us dare to cross it!i imagine there are sniprs on the roof Grin)
i would have to rely on dd remembering to bring it out.
i remember hearing a woman speak on the radio about how gym bods should boil or put their bottles in a dishwasher,rather than rinsing and re-filling.it was something about the dead skin from your lips left around th opening..either mites or bacteria ..grim whichever

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Chil1234 · 23/09/2010 13:35

Not as grim as all the other things your DD is much more likely to be exposed to in the typical classroom. 4 year-olds are walking petrie dishes. She'll survive a few dead skin cells.

PfftTheMagicDragon · 23/09/2010 13:52

ha! This is not the only school I have heard of that does this.

DS brings his home every day

NordicPrincess · 23/09/2010 13:56

thats disgusting if they dont wash them. I take my sons home everyday wash it and refill it the next to be taken to school

LesbianMummy1 · 23/09/2010 14:00

ours get put in dishwasher and kept at school lids are replaced as necessary

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motherbeyond · 23/09/2010 18:03

gah,had put a longwinded reply on here but it's disappeared (the bastard)

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ragged · 23/09/2010 18:06

DC bring theirs home daily but I only very rarely wash them (maybe once every 2 months).

And... nothing is growing inside or out, DC don't get sick from them, no harm done at all.... except the faff of having to remember to bring them back every day . I would much rather DC just left them in the classroom and someone else refilled them daily.

Gigantaur · 23/09/2010 18:14

no they rinse them out when the re fill them daily. but they send them home for a good scrub along with PE kits etc at half term.

YABU if you don't send a water bottle in. litle kids dehydrate very quickly and it is evidenced that children are able to concentrate better when well hydrated.

CardyMow · 23/09/2010 18:17

Bleurgh! my DS's school sends them home daily, I wash them up evry night, and sterilise them in milton once a week. How many germs would be in/on the bottle by the time 6 weeks have passed? I suppose I would assume ask that they are washed out daily in the school.

olderandwider · 23/09/2010 18:37

Kids do not need water bottles imo They will not come to any harm having to wait until break/lunchtime for a drink from a fountain or jug. The school obviously should provide these.

Do other countries share this obsession with school children and water?

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