To ask what you think to this school new rule?

[Redsatin109]

Just heard from other parents that apparently they’ll be reducing the amount of water y2 and upwards can have next year. So limiting the amount of times they can access their water bottle. This is because they’re only allowed to go to the toilets at breaks/lunch and it’s to limit toileting accidents in the classroom.

https://theconversation.com/hydration-is-really-important-for-learning-how-much-do-kids-need-to-drink-231485

There's plenty of articles on it, this is one example.

Sorry think this is a better one from NHS

https://www.highfive.scot.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/10244-DRINKING-WATER-GUIDANCE.pdf

’Hydration’ is ‘really important’ says esteemed, peer-reviewed, empirical, evidence-based unheard-of website, ‘The Conversation’. 🤣🤣🤣

Quite apart from the small matter that the views expressed are opinion got up as fact.

I remember we never had such things as water bottles when I was at school and we survived perfectly well. I think nowadays there is an obsession about people having water bottles on them all the time when it’s really not needed.

Seems sensible to me.

Me too! Although was talking with a friend today, reminiscing of our school days, and I did used to suffer from chronic headaches 😅They are much better now that I'm not constantly dehydrated 🤦‍♀️

Exactly. I don't advocate Draconian measures as a rule, but I have broadly 'good kids' and water bottles are still a major distraction, as are loo breaks.

There is a huge correlation between the children who can't sit still, who need go to the toilet every lesson and who ask to fill up their bottles regularly. It's almost funny that I can't recall any of the top performing children in my class EVER going to the loo or being up to get a drink.

I don't allow refills in lessons; I will allow a drink. I restrict toilets and getting up to drink during the teaching time (except for children with medical conditions). During independent work I'm more relaxed about it.

Another thing that irritates me as a class teacher (year 6) is the look on their faces when, after a 1 hour break with unlimited opportunities to refill their water bottles, they ask to leave the class to refill their bottles 30 seconds after they start of the afternoon session.

To many children in this day and age not getting their own way immediately is an act of injustice and this attitude shines through in their demands (and I use that word deliberately) around water bottles.

If you read to the end you will find this “1The Health, Hydration, and Nutrition Science Department, Danone Research, Palaiseau, France, provided research funding and water for the study.”
In case anyone doesn’t know, Danone is a “French multinational food-products corporation headquartered in Paris, known for its fresh dairy products, bottled water, and specialized nutrition products. “

This website recommends 3/4 glasses of water in a day. So before school, break, lunch and after school should cover that nicely.

How did we all go to school and survive without constantly drinking from bottles of water ?

As it did, for countless generations.

Specialist doctors will tell you that constant sipping on water isn’t good for kidneys. Having a larger drink of water at break and lunch is better.

Kids (and adults) need plenty of water to be healthy. This is verging on abuse.

Agree with you. We were not allowed to drink in class, only at break times. You were allowed "to be excused" if you really needed the loo.

‘Just heard from other parents’ makes me question the accuracy.

Vynalbob

The first article you posted states that it’s not recommended for children to be sipping water during the day. Instead they should be taking a larger drink at intervals.

This fits in perfectly with having a good swig from the water bottle on arrival, breaks, lunch & home time.

The article also states that too many children don’t drink enough before school. Which is surprising if so many of them need to be permanently attached to water bottles during lessons 🤔

This is complete bs no way would i allow a school to enforce this on my child!

Why? Presumably as your child has a life threatening condition that requires constant drinking the school would be happy to accommodate them. What makes you think theyd ignore medical advice?

Kids should have access to a drink whenever they want! Being thirsty isnt on a schedule

But as plenty of teachers have attested they are playing with bottles, fiddling and taking tiny sips for the sake of it.

Bottles in schools altogether is unnecessary and a pointless distraction. They only go short times between breaks anyway. It's ridiculous to think they need absolutely constant access to water

To enforce what?
An hour and a half without water?
What do you think will happen?

Constantly sipping from water bottles has become a habit now, for adults and children, but it isn’t necessary. I’m old enough to have gone through all my schooling before water bottles were a thing. Literally nobody had one. I don’t even remember drinking from the water fountain at break time. I had a small drink with my lunch and that was it. I don’t remember being thirsty, even in hot weather. I still don’t drink a lot, as I never formed the habit. It doesn’t appear to have done me any harm.

I'd be amazed if the same kids are drinking as frequently at home as some of the parents of her think they should at school.

If my child was asking for a proper drink every hour or less, I'd be concerned and worry about diabetes.