Sports days in the heat being cancelled

[LovelyBath77]

Kind of wish ours was. It's meant to be really hot this week and it will be at 1.30pm. Poor kids.

How do kids in hot countries cope FFS?

Ironically, at least in part the answer is 'they aren't stupid enough to run around pointlessly in the hottest and sunniest hours of the day'

Oh phew, just reading the rest of the comments and see I'm not alone and don't need to run away.
We are creating a generation of people who have never faced even mild discomfort in their entire lives.
Yes to this.

I do fear for the future of this country if our young people of today are wrapped up in cotyon wool as many of these posts and posts on similar threads suggest is happening.

Absobloodylutely!!

How do kids in hot countries cope FFS?

Ironically, at least in part the answer is 'they aren't stupid enough to run around pointlessly in the hottest and sunniest hours of the day' 

And, and... they are acclimatised to the heat! When I lived in Singapore, after a couple of weeks I adjusted. My son adjusted. The chemistry of the blood changes. DS1 coped living in Sing but doesn't cope outside on a day like today.

A lot of pp s don't seem to understand that suncream and water is not going to protect kids from heat stroke or heat exhaustion! If there isn't enough shade for everyone, then it should definitely be cancelled. If I sat in the sun for 3 hours today, I would get heat stroke. Regardless of what I wore and what I drank.

I had my sons in KS1 sports day yesterday afternoon and everyone was fine. Kids had constant water on them, wore hats and sun screen. Kept them in the shade or took them inside for a break. Water cooler in the canteen for the parents.

Ours was at 9am this morning but both parents and kids sat under canopies. Drinks were available for kids but not parents. It was very hot but came well armed with sunglasses, hat and suncream and drink. Kids were only in sun for max of 5 mins per race (only 2 races). Kids weren't bothered and no-one collapsed (in London).

Ffs. How precious we all are! They’ll be fine

How do kids in hot countries cope FFS?

I went to school in Malta and during summer school finished at 1pm. We certainly wouldn't have been so stupid as to have a sports day at 1.30pm.

How do kids in hot countries cope FFS?

Ironically, at least in part the answer is 'they aren't stupid enough to run around pointlessly in the hottest and sunniest hours of the day' grin

Tell that to the school my kids went to in California, 35C and still chucked outside for playtime each day. But they were dressed for it, only thing asked was no open toe sandals, so they'd have those ones with bits across the toe or trainers. Not many wore hats, but water play was encouraged. Sprinklers got turned on, kids got wet, no one cared, they dry off quick and lots of water to drink.

They should turn on the sprinklers and let the kids have some fun.
Dd's is tomorrow, in a large arena, no shade, she'll be fine in shorts and teeshirt, lots of water and some sun lotion.

I don’t think the sun upsets small children as much as it does their parents.

Kids in foreign countries sit in the shade. Stay I doors o really hot days. Exercise morning or evening.
Or in air conditioned halls.
There is that myth busted.
Your Welcome

I once taught on an island in the middle of the South Pacific. Turned up one day and there were no pupils or teachers to be seen anywhere. The next day I was told it was because it was raining, like it was obvious they wouldn’t go to school in the rain. So, it works both ways!

MN hates sports days. Fact. It's one of the days in the year athletic kids get a chance to shine. Plenty of gazebos, hats and water. Bob's your uncle.

Well DS (4) had his this morning, had sunhat, sun cream, access to shade and drinks and has come home crying and shaking with heat stroke so I think actually sometimes perhaps it's not just mollycoddling but sensible to be concerned

Lordy, in the long, hot summer of 1976 I did nothing BUT run around all day as did all my friends. We survived.

Wish ours was cancelled tomorrow but it's blooming well going ahead. Not bothered about the kids - they'll be fine with suncream, hats, water bottles etc... but the idea of standing on a school field in this heat (I'm not good with hot weather) is bloody horrendous for ME!

We've just had ours and had to call an ambulance for collapsed students. It's not sensible.

Mine won’t be attending this year. Every year I send the eldest, and every year I regret it. They’re both fair-skinned redheads, and for the last three years the eldest has either had sunstroke, or been badly burned, or both - and I’m done. I put sucream on him, and a hat, and the school puts up a gazebo and has ice-pops, but it’s not enough. My four-year-old was sent home today, lavishly puking, and I’m sure it’s the heat. I’m not sure that there’s anything particularly impressive or heroic about being able to withstand high temperatures, btw. The cast of ‘Love Island’ seem to manage it, and there’s not a one of them I’d want next to me in the trenches if the balloon goes up.

Are you seriously comparing school sports day with SAS selection?

Of course not, merely pointing out to the user that said about heat and fighting a war, that heat can also be deadly if not managed correctly.

We have managed to prosecute wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, hardly countries known for their frigid climate...

i dont think i ran around @WhatATimeToBeAlive but i do remember being sat in a bucket of water in the back yard in 1976

It goes on for too bastard long, that’s why. House races in the morning, then the parents bring up a picnic and they go on for another two hours. Not this year. Nah.

Its not that hot.

I used to live somewhere which got up to 44 degrees and 95% humidity and the DC still played out.

Sunscreen, bottle of water, hat and loose clothing is what they need.

FYI we should all start putting aircon in our bedrooms as the UK is getting hotter and hotter.

It’s the one day of the year athletic kids get to shine?!? That’s priceless, that is. Because sporty kids are always at the bottom of the popularity pyramid, for sure: have you even watched a high school film made in the last fifty years? The day my kids’ primary has a day-long Spelling Bee when the dads all take the day off, and the mums run refreshment stalls . . .

Our school is desperately trying to find enough people with gazebos to donate for the afternoon to keep the kids in the shade, otherwise it will be cancelled.