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?

YANBU OP. I worry too, even about my teen!

It is very hot here, 32 on the thermometer...so I do get the 'drama' TBH.

Heatstroke and sunstroke are awful, and no, not all teachers have a plan.

DS in primary school had a lovely concrete playground where there was very little escape from the sun, but you'd find him in a corner somewhere trying to get in the shade.

UV level is 8. Advice is to stay indoors. Advice I am taking and making sure the kids do too.

Cream on before they go, sun hat and lots of water. Natural to worry, but just drum it into them about sun safety

Also, it's a level 3 health warning (top one is 4).

I always give dd a bandana for sports day.
Any hoo, does anyone on here remember The Summer of '76. Or did we all die of heat stroke and sun burn. I am not minimising either. I have had both. We are much better informed and better equipped to deal with hot weather than we were in '76.
But this is the kind of thing we get now and then in the UK.
Watch out for your elderly neighbours and keep hydrated.

The level 3 health warning is for vulnerable people. Babies,toddlers, elderly and ill people. Heat can be dangerous for people already seriously ill or with serious breathing problems.

Our school are reducing the time outside at lunch time to 15 mins. Which is quite a relief.

There's no higher risk of sunBURN in a heatwave - it's the UV waves which do the damage not the actual heat. Since having skin cancer (perhaps caused by being burned as a child when nobody cared about suncream) I've always sent my kids off to school smeared in the 8 hour stuff during the summer unless it's actually a rainy/very cloudy day. I know it doesn't last 8 hours but it's the best alternative.
Schools can be rubbish on heat though - remember helping on a school trip in a heatwave where they'd risk assessed for absolutely everything but hadn't drawn any conclusions from the weather forecast. A few parents had put in extra or frozen water. Most of the kids didn't have enough...

Keep trying , gnushoes - sadly the general level of science is that people think UV strength is connected to air temperature. The fact that we are two days from the solstice and that is why the UV is so high seems too much.

I don't think know ours will be out long today and they had a new heating system installed that includes aircon. It was lovely in their class room this morning. My son survived reception prior to the air con so I'm sure they will all be fine. I think they only installed it as they made a lot of the walls glass sliding to be able to do inside outside class rooms

Brought up in country oz, we all managed to survive school with no aircon in 40C plus heat. Though we didn't concentrate wonderfully well in it, to be fair.

sadly the general level of science is that people think UV strength is connected to air temperature

It may be more complicated than that, but I think you'll find it hard to refute the notion that you are more likely to get sunburned when it is hot. It's not as if there is no correlation between high UV and high temperature.

I'd keep mine home. They're young enough so....so what. Sun isn't a problem. Sunstroke and dehydration is. Follow your gut feeling, but don't overreact. Top to toe in factor 50 all day every day is ridiculous. We need vitamin D and children in hot countries haven't all died out. They STAY OUT OF THE HEAT 11-3! Common sense.

I still remember being very sunburned as a child in the late 70/early 80s after a trip to the beach. I wouldn't wish that on anyone.

It's been quite cloudy here today and probably people think they won't burn but it is probably perfect burning weather as there is a breeze, the sun isn't scorching hot so it's pleasant to be outside

I reckon this is a record for my car so far; 37 degrees registered after driving for a mile or so in Sheffield this afternoon, though it was full sun. Was showing higher when we first set off.
Mind, once Id turned the computers on in our computer room this afternoon it felt like that too!

Get P20 its expensive but really does last all day. I am v fair and applied yesterday morning was outside most of day and not one bit of red skin. So applying before school would cover her for tbe day

They are also v used to it and adapting lessons etc to accommodate the heat.

Seriously??? I dont think you need to worry ! As long as they have water a hat and cream on they will be ok

Worried about the heat - entirely unreasonable. It's barely warm by the standards of most European countries during summer. Kids all survive. They need to know to drink water though.

Worried about sunburn yes that's reasonable. A hat is essential but presumably they won't be forcing them all out into the blazing sun and not allowing sunscreen?!

Sun cream doesn't protect anyone from the heat.
Shade is important along with loose cotton clothing, hats and water
Sun cream is ok but it gives a false sense of security and won't stop overheating nor sun stroke.

Another in a country where it is currently 49C....

The kids only stop going out for break when it tops 40C, they HAVE to wear a hat and drink water. Granted, we have A/C in the classrooms but that actually makes it harder on their respiratory system, going from hot to freezing....

Kids will be fine. no way the school will have them out for 1.5 hours on a field with no shade.

Enjoy the relative 'cool'....

The NUT is campaigning for pupils to be sent home when the temperature reaches 26 C (which the WHO already recommends).

26? FFS, thats ridiculous.

URGH. But children are still alive.

Another 70s child here who had skin cancer due to sunburn as a child. Consequently I am very careful with my DC who are at higher risk due to my history.
I put Ultrasun Factor 50 on in the morning but my daughter has still come home pink from sunburn. I send her in with sunscreen but the teachers don't put it on or remind her to do so - my DD is 6 and I find even in year 1 they're not old enough to remember and to do it properly, especially on her face. Sent her in wearing a sun hat which she lost at some point in the day!
She has also had a heat rash on her back for the last 2 days which is really itchy.
So no YANBU to be concerned, I am too.

and still going to school.

I work in a school and we kept the kids in the shade. We had sprays so misted them and they were only out for 20 minutes max. We then kept them inside doing calm and quiet activities for rest of lunch. We didn't go out for second break either as felt it was too hot for the little ones.
Schools usually adapt to the heat the best they can.