to expect DS school to include him (coeliac & df)

[wangle99]

DS is 10, has been gluten/wheat/dairy free all the while he has been at his primary school and he is now in year 5. I had a conversation with his teacher two weeks ago at parents evening saying that I would always provide food if they were doing anything food based in class.

DS comes home today visibly upset.

1. Today was French food testing day, we had not been told. They had told him to 'sniff' the food. (I could have provided brioche and others things)

2. His lunch table got 'lunch table of the week' all children on it got chocolate with caramel in. Nothing available for DS. A teaching assistant took him around the other class rooms to see if anyone had anything he could eat but they didn't.

The school are well aware of DS needs, they have a care plan for him so all staff do know. They could have told me and I would have provided something. I had no idea they do '** of the week' I could have provided chocolate/sweets whatever to be kept in school.

Would you email the school to discuss this? Am I expecting too much?

Thank you.

Both my children have cows milk allergies. My sons first teacher went out of her way to ensure he didnt go without, learnt about it and bought milk free foods wherever she could. His second teacher seperated him while everyone else ate cake. In September there are 9 children with birthdays that all took cake, so he played outside on his own while the other ate cake (afternoon nursery) I then sent in 10 packs of dairy free buttons. He didnt have any.

He is now on full time school and today came out having not had anything when the others had cake for CIN. My daughter on the other hand who started school this year with his second teacher, got a pack of the chocolate buttons I had sent in last year :/ She is awaiting on confirmation shenis a coeliac

Sorry I posted too soon. I now see it was an error. Glad that has been sorted for him and he won't go without in future :)

bobblewobble that is awful. DS had a bun bake today so I made choc chip dairy/wheat/gluten/nut free cakes so he bought the cakes back lol what else can you do though?

Apparently our free from cakes were the favourites!!!

YANBU. I have a son and daughter who are peanut-allergic, and there have been several occasions when simple communication could have preempted such a situation. What really took the nut-free cake, though, was when youngest DD was excluded from a food activity because of peanut allergy. That in itself would have been bad enough, but she doesn't suffer from any allergies at all! The teacher simply assumed she did because of her older siblings (who had since left the school) and refused to believe that their youngest sister wasn't similarly afflicted! Of course, a quick phone call could have settled the matter, but that would have been far too sensible...