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.

Our school field has no shade. Last year 3 children fainted despite hats and water. They were sat out all afternoon in direct sun. People who live in hot countries are far better at working around the heat when organising and running events.

Only mad dogs and Englishmen!

As ours was cancelled the other week because of safety issues -it had rained overnight and the grass was a bit "slippy "! - I find it ridiculous that in a country which has seen a massive increase in melanoma that too much sun isn't considered a "safety issue" - and I do have first hand knowledge and know the facts having a relative with stage 4 incurable melanoma.

No shade at all on our village field which the school uses.
Our junior sports day went ahead this morning as planned - with a reduced schedule to ensure kids didnt overhead.
The infant sports afternoon was cancelled due to temp of over 28...
Sensible i thought....the littlies would have been too hot, plus by 1pm probably sweated all their suncream off us mums had dutifully applied before school!

@PatriarchyPersonified ODFOD

I’m sure the kids will be fine, but definitely wish ours would be! I have to drag my 4 month old out into the midday heat for 3 hours tomorrow where there isn’t any shade. Would gladly leave it for another week if I could.

DS’s was today. They wore sun hats throughout, had water bottles and school had put up 2 big gazebos for shade between races. They were all fine.

DS was in an athletics championship this afternoon which went ahead. Temperatures of around 27 or so I think. There was shade there when they weren’t running and was fine (I was watching). Races of up to 1,500m plus field events

I wouldn't go!

Heat exhaustion then, I do apologise. 🙄 He was shaking, shivering, feeling sick, crying and the heat was radiating out of him. I was pointing out that sometimes with the best will in the world, hats, shade and hydration- standing around in, for this country, unusually high temperatures for several hours can have adverse effects on a fucking 4 year old. Not sure why people are being such cunts about it

So many posters saying they've had theirs, plenty of water and gazebos and kids were all fine. Well yes, but so many are held on playing fields with no shade, no gazebos for 3 to 4 hours. Ours was longer with a picnic at half time. With no shade. That's the issue we had with hot sports days

Four hours around midday sat out in the sun with no shade and no gazebo at my kids old school. 31 degrees. Kids got burnt and kids had asthma attacks.
Upper Juniors are running fairly long races with laps.

Mine are in secondary now and DC2 took part in seven long races last year as other kids in form didn't want to do it.
No way would I let them do it in this heat.

kathmacc I’m sorry to hear about your relative. Melanoma is a hideous disease. My dad died from it at 65. It originated in a mole on his back, acquired in late middle age but believed to have been caused by sunburn in childhood. The melanoma was removed and all was well for a few years. But it turns out it was silently doing what melanoma does, so insidiously, and creeping through his otherwise extremely healthy body, until it reached his brain. It was hideous and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone, especially as it can be so easily prevented by just not spending too long in the sun! 😩

I grew up in a place with very hot summers. Because we were used to it, we knew how to deal with it and minimise the risk of heat/sunstroke - I.e. cancelling Sports Day in extreme heat. It’s not some competition to prove you aren’t raising snowflakes.

DC’s primary school here had no shade or gazebos in their playing fields. Fortunately being in Scotland, it never got above 23ish on any of their Sports Days.

Ours is now being held at 9.30 instead of 1.30.

Not sure why they can't have ours in the morning. 30 degrees today.

DD in bed, had a paracetamol for headache and conked out. I'm in vest and shorts - my face is red, my chest is red and my lower arms are red. In spite of constant application of factor 50. If you are sitting for 3 hours in the sun then you are going to burn - you can even feel yourself burn regardless of what creams you have on. Short of holding an umbrella in front of your face there has been no avoiding the sun today.
Oh well, hello an extra 100 freckles.

Everyone see thread about how helpless people are

Mine did theirs today

Water lots
A gaszebo for the kids to sit under older ones sat at the trees

Jesus wept

My parents are from the Caribbean and they had sports day and somehow managed

And to think people say that kids these days are ridiculously mollycoddled and wrapped in cotton wool.

How could they possibly get that idea? ...

It got to 32 degrees here, far too hot to run no matter how short a distance!

More posters talking about sitting under gazebos and trees. Those of us who are complaining of the heat don't have the luxury of gazebos and trees. Imagine tolerating the full heat of the midday and afternoon sun for 4 hours with no shade . That's what some find intolerable. Most of us would be fine, with some shade. But it's having no shade that's a problem

Dear lord no wonder children in India and auch are doing better

I wonder if children in South America
Caribbean
Indea and Cuba cope ffs get a bloody grip