this isnt a moan ..but a question

[stoppinattwo]

was thinking about asking the school to provide a fridge for the children on packed lunch to store their lunches.. DD quite often has yoghurt drings or cheese sandwiches, cucumber in her packed lunch. It sits on a table outside their class room till lunch time (some 3 hour)..........it must be vile

Do you think it is a good idea, what do other schools do??

I'm not sure the school's budget will stretch to this - also might not have room?

You could put an ice pack in, or freeze a juice thingy and put it in, will be drinkable by lunchtime and also will keep things cool.

ours don;t but i got some of those mini ice packs to put in his lunch box

Freeze a juice thingy.

Warm yoghurt is one of the things I remember about school... good character buildin stuff

Aww Lulumama - that's such a sweet thing to do!

Asda have fridegs in at the moment for £59,

you could always ask if they have budget for it.

ahhh good idea didnt think of that, there would be room though...if they move the table that they currently put the packed lunches on

I put a freezer block in

Ours had a fridge for packed lunches to go in.
It's an excellent thing for the PTA to fundraise for.
Check it out with the Headteacher, and ask him/her to approach the chair of the parent's committee.

How big is the school?

With the size of children's lunch bags one fridge wouldn't be enough would it?

Ours sit on a shelf above their coat hooks. I put ds's lunch in an insulated lunchbag and pop a small ice block in. Sometimes I pop in a bottle of ice/water too (put half bottle water in freezer the night before, then remove in the morning and fill with water so ice slowly melts), and for yogurts I freeze those squeezy tube yogurts and pop it in frozen in the morning. He tells me it has melted by lunchtime. BTW, dses bag has 2 compartments so I put the stuff that needs to be kept cool in a separate section to anything else.

i would ask! its only £59!

im sure the teachers have a fridge in the staff room

the school has about 200 kids, there are about 20 on packed lunches

Really, wow, so many on hot dinners!

well a lot of them get free school meals i think, there are only a very small proportion who have packed lunch

thay have to do lunch in 2 sittings

sorry Kitty

Im going to ask our PTA about it, Im also a school governor so im sure i can assert som authority, but only if it is in the schools and kids best interests of course

I'd get little icepacks tbh.

Off-topic but DS1 took some cooking stuff in a couple of weeks ago, and his box got crushed and broken cos everyone else just shoved theirs on top.

They could ask if anyone has one spare for donation to the school - one of the parents or even freecycle. We never had one when I was at school - just had warm sandwiches

lol, soz that was such a stroppy thing to say

its just ive posted a few things lately directly to people to help them out an theyve just skipped right past me! lol

hmm yes thinking about it if i put an icepack in DD would only try and eat it bless her "but muuum you told te to eat alllllll my dinner!"

... no its not that!

See if one of the parents can donate? Put a note in the newsletter. One might be rich, or have a spare?

dont be sorry kitty, i kept meaning to reply and scrolling down you had waited v patiently after telling me twice ..............XX