to expect DTDs to be allowed to wear a sunhat in the playground

[SlightlyMadStilton]

Cos I have just found out that despite sending it in for the last 3-4 weeks the teachers have not allowed them to wear it .

OK to be fair - they have not let them get it out of their book bags at playtime. But still I am bloody glad we have not had a weekday like yesterday or I would have been fuming .

for you!

When dd1 was little, they wouldn't let them out without a sun hat - which I found quite annoying when I forgot her hat and it was overcast.

That doesn't sound very good. Our school is always putting reminders about sun hats/cream in the weekly newsletters.

Why have they not been allowed to wear them? I don't understand - my children had to being a hat and suncream into school last summer. (Although, they had to be able to apply the suncream unaided as staff not allowed to help!!!)

If it was on their peg I think they would have been allowed to wear it. BUT they started taking it un weeks ago - they should have been told on the first day - "yes you can get it today - but please put it on your peg tomorrow" or similar. I don't even know how I stumbled across finding out. They could have gone all summer without wearing it

Sorry - meant dd, not "children". But the older ones also had to have a sunhat when they were at primary school.

That is petty and ridiculous IMO. I would complain. How old are they?

And apparently they are not allowed to used sun 'creams'. They can use sprays but not creams (need to clarify that one though). I am going to get some 10hr protection and sort them out in themornings so that won't be an issue as I hat the sprays as I think they are far messier.

1. DP is going to 'talk' to teacher next week.

Our only saving grace is that the weather has been comparatively mild.

Sprays being so much safer for small children to use?!? No chance of it going in anyone's eyes or mouth then? I would like to see the rationale behind that.

I only have DTDs word on that one - so I reserve judgement as to weather DTDs are only telling me that so I have to go and buy a 'fun to use' spray rather than a bog standard bottle IYSWIM.

Ahh - ok. hope you sort it out - the weather is getting hotter. It has been scorching in my garden today. (My typing has been somewhat affected by the cold beer my son gave me).

I am sure that it is the fact they are not allowed to get it from their book bag - rather than the fact that they are not allowed to put it on their head IYSWIM. Still would be nice to know that so that we can ensure it is not left in their book bag IYSWIM.

6 is a bit young to remember to get stuff out of their bookbags..... I bet you've noticed this with letters from school

(and do they get a letter each, or just one between them?)

No they remember every singl letter that is in there (they always want to know it is about a trip or something nice etc.).

And yes I do get 2 of everything.

When asked who said they couldn't wear hats they said Mrs X says we are not allowed to get them out of book bags. TBH I do believe them as bookbags are kept in a communal pile - and I never thought it would be an issue.

Or do you mean it is a bit young to remember to put the hat on the peg in the morning?

I will just take it out of book bag on doorstep ready for them to put on peg.

that was what I meant, yes.

give it to them at the door and the hats may make it to the relevant pegs

I (or them) would have just like to have been told 3 weeks ago that this is what I needed to do.

A couple of letters in their bookbags would have done the trick

Still I know a group of secondary school pupils that were forced to stand in the sun (i.e. not shade) during a fire drill as punishment for misbehaviour. The rest of the class were ushered to the shade This was on an exceedingly hot day last summer. Puts my quibble into perspective .

Indeed. Telling them to put it on there pegs when they arrived would ave done the trick TBH.

The same is true of their raincoats which fold up into their book bags - although I am less concerned about that as it they really needed them they wouldn't be in the playground IYSWIM.

I shall be ensuring other parents have not fallen into the same trap.

How bizarre. At the least they should have a written policy about what WOULD be acceptable to the school and enable your children to be protected.

They sound borderline nut jobs to me. Why would cream be forbidden but spray ok? Is it because spray is easier for the little ones to apply?

I personally hate spray TBH. As I said I have to clarify that rule - and ensure they are not fabricating it for their own benefit/gain. They took cream last year in reception - and were using it.

TBH I am planning on getting 10hr cover so I know it is done properly in the morning - so that is not an issue to me personally.

Maybe spray so that teachers don't have to actually touch the children? Possibly? Not suggesting that isn't daft, just trying to work out what's going on.