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?

Air con in classrooms would make a massive difference. Allow everyone to cool down a lot, and could have it set to a slightly higher temperature than freezing if a modern system. As it stands the classrooms are far hotter than outside, and shade is limited outdoors too.

Dd has air con in her computing and drama rooms and said it's the only rooms they got a proper amount of work done. In the others, especially in the afternoon when it got hotter, everyone was more sluggish and slow at doing their work.

I had one DS in a school with air con today, came home happy also said they all stayed in at lunchtime.
Other DS no air con and he had a massive meltdown and is still noticeably hotter. Makes a massive difference to them but appreciate it's not cost effective.
We were lucky, new outside wooden classrooms were built so I guess they had to have air con.

Don't see why school won't let them apply their own suncream. Our primary school allows them to take in cream and apply at break and lunch. The nivea? ones with roller balls seem popular with parents and children.

An hour and a half for lunch?!

Do they have brandy and cigars?? LOL

When did we become such a nation of wimps?

I really hate that schools aren't allowed to apply sunscreen especially to children of such a young age .... however I'm pretty sure we just applied it once a day in the morn when I was little. In my son's school they have sunscreen around the school and they can reapply themselves during the day. He's not perfect at it yet but he gives it a good go.

When we started putting up stupid buildings. Proper design in the UK shouldn't need aircon. Same as old buildings don't.

Yabu. Good grief. However I agree about the daft design of school buildings nowadays. I went to school in old Victorian schools where the windows were high up so you couldn't gaze out of them but it kept the heat off us. We were never kept in on hot days, never wore sun cream at school and never wore hats. And I was a bit ginger as a child.

I'm blonde and I remember getting burnt at school in the 80s, not long after my uncle died of skin cancer. Our school were supposed to be having sports day tomorrow and it has been postponed on LEA advice.

At my school,no one wore sun cream, but we had lots and lots of shady areas. Lots of playgrounds now don't.

Both my children are blonde, blue eyes and pale also with eczema and we use a once a day cream so hopefully it lasts all day, but I do worry that it may not (or that I've missed abit when applying it). DD1 has a condition that means we must protect the skin. Sports day tomorrow so also worried about the heat and sun, in the past they have used gazebos for the kids but I'm also not looking forward to sitting in a field all afternoon with no shade as I also burn easily and dont tolerate heat well. It amazes me that teachers cant remind the pupils to wear a hat and take a drink outside with them.

We're in Scotland so rarely get the heat you're all experiencing but when we have the schools have been great at offering water (donated by local Asda) during breaks even ice lollies etc. They have water fights too. Kids take in their own suncream tho and apply as necessary. On days when it has peaked 30 they stayed indoors but still with frozen lollies and extra water. I was amazed at the effort they put in as I remember sweltering heat (se England) and sunburn and sucking it up.

Another one in the ME who thinks it's all a bit hysterical in the UK. Yes we have A/C to escape from the heat (but the OP was concerned about the time outside, not inside), and my 3 (all primary age) were out at break time today in almost 50 running around playing football. Sunscreen, a hat and plenty of water are all that's needed and short bursts outside won't do any harm.

Itsjustaphase2016 "Erm..massive over reaction!!" I don;t think so, it is very hot.

"My kids were running about in the garden playing all day today! They seemed fine..they are 4,3 and 1." Hope they had loads of suncream on, it's very dangerous for babies to get burnt.

"You guys surely don't have your kids stuck in doors all day because it's a bit hot?" My kids love being outside but it is too hot! I hate it.

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

It is where we are and I've lived in Australia and Singapore. It's toooooo hot.

YANBU and all children are precious.

I use Boots once suncream! Lasts up to 6 hours so covers the lunch time my kids have never burnt from it even abroad ! And make sure she has hat and drink!

It's not fair to say OP is being PFB. Yes, the risks of sun and heat are easily managed. It's not rocket science. However the school is not allowing her to manage those risks sensibly by letting the child reapply suncream, have the option of going indoors for shade etc.

In hot climates children know how to manage the heat and sun. UK kids don't have this experience and need to be taught.

I seem to be especially sensitive to heat; but I'd still bet that if ambient temperatures shot up by the equivalent of 20 degrees for random weeks throughout the year (once you factor in humidity), then quite a few places would have issues.

Especially if they didn't have air conditioning or a society build around it.

I've never understood the "I'm fine so you should be too" mentality.

I'm with Fmeitshot - it's all very well to say I'm in X at 47 degrees and it's fine, but (i) people acclimatise to heat and (ii) cities that are set up for heat do it much better than all UK cities which aren't. If you are suffering you have my sympathies!

See, this whole 'I'm in the ME so get over yourself' argument, does my head in. Yes, the kids do play outside there in 40+ degrees (presumably with shaded areas, knowledge of how to apply suncreen and good access to water) but when they come INSIDE they have the relief of cooling down in aircon, so that they dont spend all day overheating with no respite in stuffy hot classrooms. Also, there is built in aircon at home and residential pools for afterschool cool down in many cases. Children who live in the ME are better acclimated (although obviously not infallible) and more adjusted to constant heat also, I just dont think you can compare. Its kind of like telling someone who has come here from a very hot climate, that they are being a wimp by wearing wooly hat/scarf etc in 7-10 degrees just because the rest of us are used to it!

The problem we tend to have here I think, is the sudden changes in temperature. 1 day you can be contemplating putting the heating on and sat with a blanket here, and the next day its 30 frikkin degrees. No one can adjust to significant temperature differentials like that, quickly or easily imho.
If I go on holiday to a hot climate, it always takes me about 2-3 days to adjust before I start to get used to and enjoy it. Here, it takes just as long in sudden heat, but by day 3 its usually bloody freezing again!

I don't think it's an over reaction. We live in Brazil, Brazilians are very sun safety aware. Air con is rare, I don't know anyone who has it, only in the cars.
While homes are built to withstand the heat people also wouldn't allow children to play outside in direct sun, all schools are required by law to have a covered playground. In the summer people go outside in the morning and then after 3 or 4pm. On the beach everyone is under an umbrella. It's neither pfb or unreasonable to keep your child safe in the sun. You have my sympathy too.

I'm very concerned about my DD.. she fainted in the dinner line last week after running around outside for 10 minutes and had to come home to recover... I've been waiting all day so far for a call to say it's happened again 😦