Sports days in the heat being cancelled

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

My daughter has Duke of Edinburgh hike due in this weather. She's dreading it with the heat but a hat, plenty of water, sun cream and deodorant and she will be fine. Adjust to the weather and all is well.

People do live in hot places, often without air conditioning in schools, it's really not that hot for short school sports day events (sure, I get cancelling the cross country for children that aren't acclimatised). Just make sure they have hats, water, sunscreen and occasional shade, it'll be fine.
It's so like the UK to see events cancelled for snow, for rain, and now for heat levels all of which are totally normal in other places... No wonder that by secondary school many kids have got the message that sports and activity are not important!

I think it is mollycoddling, but knowing what some parents are like I would be cancelling it if I was a Head as well.

Ours went ahead today. I'm not going to pretend I enjoyed it much at all as a spectator - it was so hot it was unpleasant to be there, shade on the school field is minimal and the kids were really struggling by the end. Kids were fine - they'd been suncreamed up to the eyeballs and all had hats and water with them - but it wasn't a particularly fun afternoon like it should have been. I personally would have preferred it swapped to the morning.

So many posters in one thread competing for the "Daily Mail Thicko Comment of the Year."

I wished they did these a but early. I've been to both my girls sports days and both times I've ended up burnt . I was annoyed when at my youngest one KS1 as no shade was provided for the children but at least at the KS2 the had shade. Before anyone mentions yes both my girls had hats, sunglasses, drinks, and sun cream but so many children didn't

how do kids in how countries cope I'm sure that's there normal so there's nothing extra for them to cope with. My dds secondary school insists all children wear their black blazers and ties on the way to school, during breaks, i between lessons but can ask to take them off during lessons. Many teachers refuse. My dd is always hot and fainted last year then came to and repeatedly vomited because she had heat stroke. She had drunk lots of water and had sun cream on.
What is it with people pretending sensible precautions is molly codling when in fact a lot of things that happened when they were young are having implications for those generations now.

Schools should make sure children are adequately protected. And adults need to do the same. Which means hats, umbrellas, etc.

We moved from UK to a tropical climate a few years ago and it takes a while to adjust to extreme heat and humidity but I wouldn't think England ever really gets THAT hot so as to be dangerous. The usual water, suncream and not over doing it should be enough. Now we have completely acclimatised so if it drops down to less than 23 degrees we are all freezing.

well mad dogs and English men and all that

Biblio That saying applies to the heat of the summer in India. In some countries people would wear jumpers in our hot days.

DD has a sports day soon and the letter home suggested bringing an umbrella to either create shade or protect from rain, they have thought of everything

God, we did sports day whatever the weather (and yep we had proper scorchio weather some summers). Our head always made sure there was plenty of juice, water and orange quarters for kids & parents. No mither.

I live in the Middle East. Sports day is in winter but still typically 25-28 degrees. We carry on regardless

Because your body has become acclimatised to the heat. It's the cooler time of the year for you.
This has been repeated several times.

Is the any difference to when they run around at break or lunchtime....🤔

My daughter has Duke of Edinburgh hike due in this weather. She's dreading it with the heat but a hat, plenty of water, sun cream and deodorant and she will be fine. Adjust to the weather and all is well.

Hopefully she'll be OK. I ended up in the ER after doing a similar hike in hot temperatures a few years ago. Uncontrollable vomiting and delirious. They rehydrated me and gave me something to stop me vomiting. I took all the right precautions - had plenty of water, suncream, hat etc.

OTOH when DH did his Duke of Edinburgh he ended up with hypothermia.

Just a light hearted comment, I even know who wrote the song
My DS had a fun run yesterday and will have a school mini olympics tomorrow. He seems to be coping fine. Is that a more appropriate comment

Is the any difference to when they run around at break or lunchtime

Do they have a 4 hour break where they're allowed no shade?

Ours was postponed a couple of years ago due to the heat, they put it on a week or 2 later when it cooled down.

Our school cancelled the team games one year due to the heat to avoid the kids being outside all day. They now have decent gazebos so it's not too bad.
Silly thing to me is that when I was at school in Australia, 26°c was a winter's day where it was cold enough to wear a coat. It's what you get used to. However, there hats and sunscreen were ingrained into the culture unlike here where they are barely needed.

Our school asked for gazebos and volunteers to put them up. All kids were sat under them with water and hats. It wasn't has hot as today, though.

We had this last year with parents complaining to the school and trying to get it cancelled. So the school ended the day earlier. These parents then stayed in the park and let their kids....you guessed it, play in the park and run around with hats on and water. It is not that hot. I grew up in the dessert. Kids play. Give them water, hat and suncream

I bet head teachers end up cursing the weather- they have to make the call whether to close the schools because of snows in winter (and then get complaints because it didn't snow in the end).

They have to guess whether the heatwave keeps up in summer and get complaints regardless of what decision they make.

IMO, the approach Sirzy's school took is the best one- aka find a decent workaround. However if there's no shade and not enough people can provide gazebos then it's absolutely sensible to cancel.

Ours was cancelled it supposed to be on Friday. Due to extreme heat, which it's not as hot here on the south coast as most other places. I'm sure when I was little our sports days were never cancelled if it was hot. But then we never wore sun cream either we were reckless in the 1980s

jwpetal My son is younger, but if he's at the park I can enforce frequent breaks to have lots to drink, insist he spends time in the shade and generally prevent him from making himself ill, schools lack the necessary staff to do this.