To be worried about DD in this heat at school tomorrow?

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I'm probably being terribly pfb, and I also suffer a little with anxiety, but aibu to worry about DD in the heat tomorrow?
She's in reception. They have 3 break times a day, the longest one being lunchtime where they're all herded onto the playing field (No shade) to eat lunch and run around. For an hour and a half.
We're encouraged to cover them in sun cream before school, but they're not allowed to take any to reapply during the day. Teachers aren't allowed to either.
It's looking like it's going to be 30 degrees here tomorrow, and I'm just concerned about her getting too hot. Is it just me?

All I have is Boots Soltan factor 50 at the moment. Will smother her in it and send it with her. And am sourcing p20 online as we speak! Pricey but worth It, it seems.

National Union of Teachers has the following guidance:
"NUT policy, therefore, as agreed at Annual Conference 2007, is that 26°C should be the absolute maximum temperature in which teachers should be expected to work, other than for very short periods."

www.teachers.org.uk/files/high-classroom-temperatures_0.doc

Try not to worry.

When I taught in an infant school, we were very vigilant about the amount of time children were allowed out in full sunshine when it was very hot. Children were sent to sit down if they had been running around and were hot and sweaty and were also made to drink plenty of water.

Slather your DC in all day suncream and give them a bottle to take in to school to top up. Ensure they have a cap (preferably with a neck protector) and give them an extra bottle of water (maybe one that has been frozen).

Whaaaaat?!! See this silly lame union crap is exactly why I wasn't in a union when I was a teacher. 26 degrees?! My sitting room is about that when I have the heating on in winter!
Are they seriously suggesting that when the weather hits the mid twenties we should all go home
and stick our bikinis on as it's too hot to teach?!
And if I go to teach orphans in Sudan, or impoverished children in Nepal, actually my working conditions would just be too much to cope with and perhaps they should be providing us with AC? Seriously ffs.

itsjustaphase I walked out of a civil service job I'd been in for just 7 weeks on Friday because after 20 years in the private sector, I just couldn't cope with the political correctness of the civil service. It's lunacy.

You're definitely being PFB, sorry. It really isn't that bad.

Weird they don't allow suncream though - our DC were told to take suncream and sun hats in their bags over the summer term!

OP try to get hold of Calypso all day sun block. Much cheaper. My DC have never burnt on it, I use factor 30 and they sell it in Aldi.

Our classroom is primarily glass, can't wait for tomorrow.

Even without shade, hats and sunscreen should do the job. As we don't often get this weather, school budgets are spent on other things. All those complaining, I hope you didn't vote Tory!

Giddy if you are working in a glass oven tomorrow you have my every sympathy. That was indeed a ridiculous design for a classroom.

We use Piz Buin once a day cream, I've just restocked, two 200ml bottles of SPF30 for £15 from Superdrug. They do free delivery too. They keep a hat in their book bags and if their water bottles run low they fill them from the tap at school. In my day you got water at lunch time only and we all survived. Try not to over think it, it's just summer!

Well edwin, It has one long, glass wal , floor to ceiling, which faces the sun all morning and a roof light which cannot be opened! I love architects don't you?

In the Good Old Days we all got burnt in summers

That is true. A lot of us have had endless preventable mole removals and cancer worries as a result.

Oh my gosh Giddy it's going to have trapped the heat all weekend. Can you take the children outside somewhere shady to learn? And you will be in your feet all day. I'm all for British stiff upper lip but that sounds awful.

Do you honestly think the school will just send them all out to get sun stroke without a thought?

An hour and a half lunch break, plus two others? Do they spend any time learning anything at all?

I'm a TA but am sure the teacher will make allowances. The children can drink anytime and they are all pretty good at applying sun block. They usually miss half their break applying it! We are lucky enough to have lots of trees on our grounds. It's the hottest room in the school and I hate it. Even in the winter it's too bright for me. I like a dingy corner.

Yes, it's an hour and a half for lunch for reception. I think it's on account of them all taking so long to eat their lunch! It also means they have the lunch queue to themselves before the big kids start to line up. Morning breaks are shorter, obviously. Plenty of time for learning.

We are currently in hospital with my 3 year old due to not handling the heat we have been here a day n not looking to get out for another 4 at least so its not just over the top to worry about these things

I work in Reception and we make sure children have hats on (when outside) and if they have brought in sun cream we guide the children in applying it. We also encourage children to drink regularly and are very happy to refill water bottles. In our unit we have 2 industrial fans and with the doors open we get a pleasant breeze.

Lonely, hope your 3 year old gets better soon .

Just wanted to say a good word for schools. Dropped DD1 off this morning. Class teacher came out to me, checked she had her suncream and hat and reminded her to reapply and told me the school had already had discussions about what to do re. sun safety in this weather. Also said they had a 5 minute gap before breaktime to supervise children with suncream.

My son's school will apply sun cream. Every year we get a letter asking us to send suncream and a hat. We just sign a consent form - either giving them permission to do so or saying that the child must not uses any suncream (allergies).

YANBU OP,

As a child I got sunstroke very easily every fucking year until I was an older teen and taking care of myself. I burn easily and quickly and no amount of hats and water stop me hallucinating and vomiting after being in the sun for a while.

I will NOT allow my kids to be forced out into the sun for long periods of time and I give not one shit what the school say about it.

I usually keep them off for sports day for this very reason, apart from DS2 who loves sports day, in which case I take him home straight after his race.

Mt dds school has told me that they probably won't spend any longe than 10 mins outside today in this heat, it's 31 here today (SE) And they are allowed to take sun cream to school to apply to themselves, I think it's wrong that the school doesn't allow that, My 2 have gone in smothered in cream, with plenty of water and their sun hats.