To be fuming that dd has sunstroke and both dd`s are sunburnt after school sports !

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DD 2 is 12 and it was her first sports day.
She is obviously sufferring from sunstroke and had to miss a music concert shes been practising for for months. Ive had to give her rehydrate and paracetamol.
She only came in for lunch all day.
dd2 is 15 and whie she hasnt got sunstroke because she know to drink gallons she is burnt !
I have always been proud that despite dd1 living on a boat and sailing around the world fgs from 4-12 she never once got burnt.Yet i send her to school and she is raw.
Apparently they went to sit under the tree and were told to come back onto the center field.There was no shade and no fluids readily available.
I know i should have smothered them in sun block, but i didn`t realise at 7am that it was going to be 27 degrees and they would be on the sports field from 9 30 until 3.

no I'm not overly keen on the sun - at least not in the UK (see my thread I started yesterday )

Only quick and havent read more than a couple of messages.
Lots and lots of the kids were off today app.
DD1 is fine but burnt.
dd2 hadnt passed urine for 18 hours so ended up needing a couple of litres of iv fluids. As for the comment how it was daft that all working mums should be able to watch the weather that is very shallow. I was working all day, came home at 7 and got called outat 7 40 to a home delivery. I then stayed up all night and had to continue straight through and work all the next day because the nhs expect us to and cant provide adequate cover .Yes i could refuse but then what do i say to the mum who has waited all these months for a home birth. When i get in i check to make sure nothing major has happened and write notes to dh who will be in at some point late that night when we are all in bed. I do not actually think , oh id better check the weather forecast in case there is going to be a heat wave tomorrow ! FGS i have a bath and a cuddle with dc and start organising the next 24 hours and making sandwiches and washing and feeding animals and myself.
So my dd is 12 an should take full responsibility for ensuring she doesnt get dehydrated when asked to remain on a field in direct sun with no shade for an extended period of time ? She is not allowed back into school to fill up her drink bottle. She is not allowed to sit under the tree because it is too far away from the field. Yes she should have stood up to the teachers and said she needed to get out of the sun. but unfortunately in this instance my daughter has been brought up to respect adults and do as shes told.
So is 12 the age at which thay are big enough to look after themselves.
IMO some 12 yr olds prob can but
I am proud to say that my 12 year old, and many of her friends, still play with their dolls,and are just entirely enjoying being children.
Both my dds have travelled the world.DD1 didnt even attend school until she was about 8 because she was sailing in the med.Yet she never once gotton sunburn.Noone ever denied her water shade and fluids.Yet i send them to school here and this happens.
I am NOT apportioning blame.I just feel that she was let down by me and partly the school too.
They happily cancel the sports day for rain and imo if the weather is too hot and they cannot provide fluids and shade they should consider this just as detrimental.
Thanks to all the posters on here who agree that the school hold some responsibility.This is not just blame-its basic common sense where CHILDREN , not adults are involved.If we cant protect our children its very sad.Its a good job every mother doesnt have the same attitude-just shrug ur shoulders and turn away saying its the parents fault for not anticipating this !
Nothing to do with the school >
All the 12 year old fault ?
mmm
Absolutely no need in any high school for a policy on this then.

It's easy enough as a working mum to forget about events (I've done it myself) but I do think that in the summer it is sensible to have a bottle or can of sunblock and a hat permanently in school bags. So I would blame myself for the burning (and really you can't get mad at people who have no idea of your personal circumstances, or expect the school to be aware and make allowances for them either - unless you tell them). The dehydration/heat stroke is another matter, and I would indeed take that up with the school. It may be that your dds were exaggerating about what they were and weren't allowed to do, and I guess if dd1 knew to drink lots of water then dd2 should also, but yes if the school chooses to go ahead with sports day on such a hot day then they should be making sure that children were reminded to drink, providing shade and ensuring that there were breaks. But the level at which different people get affected by the sum is very variable. I get heat exhaustion very quickly (I am also very pale skinned and burn easily) but my parents and siblings don't. I know I have to be careful, but when I was younger if I was with a bunch of friends who were lying in the sun I would have found it very hard not to do the same.