to be really cross with school

[luciemule]

yesterday, DD (8) came home with a really flushed face and said she felt funny.
At teatime, she looked at the meal and said she couldn't eat any and was going to be sick. I went upstairs where she had been sick and was then sleeping naked in bed, feeling awful. Last year I had heat stroke and recognised the same symptoms she was having. I asked her whether she had been in the sun that afternoon at school. She said the TA had made her sit against the south facing school wall (with no hat as I forgot to send it ) all afternoon watching football (she couldn't play due to poorly foot). I asked her "are you sure you weren't sitting under the canopy areas?" and she said no, she made me sit on a chair against the sunny wall.
How stupid was that??? I feel bad about forgetting to give her the hat yesterday but surely anyone with common sense wouldn't have sat her in full afternoon sun, seeing that she wasn't wearing a hat! I'm fuming today.
As well as that, DS (5) came home with 2 raw burn marks on his neck from skipping ropes. Apparently he'd been playing tug of war and had pulled the rope over his shoulder. They're not supposed to be allowed to even play tug of war so goodness knows how that happened!

That's awful of the school to let your DD sit out like that. Did you keep DD off today? Hope both your DD and Ds are okay

thank you phoenix - no, she felt okay this morning and I sent her hat, told her to stay out I started off being assertive with the school but they are very good at making paretns feel like children and neurotic and are quite unapproachable.

DH emailed me said I should have kept her off - the army (DH is in the army) take heat stroke really seriously and he was really cross with school. He said it can get worse each time you have it and she should have gone to the GP. I said I'd monitor her.

Did she make any comment to the teacher or TA about being hot?

I do think it is unreasonable of the school and the TA - but do check they were fully aware of where she was, for how long and that it was a very hot location. And then do follow it up.

And make sure DD is able to tell the TA or teacher when she is sat in full sun like that in future.

Glad she is feeling better now.

Could she have moved perhaps?

In your case Luciemule, I think the school were in the wrong and need to change their behaviour immediately.

In my case, I don't know what to suggest should happen....DS (6) was out in the sun for two hours yesterday afternoon for PE. His face and neck were burned last night.

I once asked the HT what arrangements she had in place for sun protection and she said children could come to school wearing sun cream (in a way that made me want to juts accept her answer). It sort makes sense but I didn't know it was going to be so hot yesterday and I didn't know they were going to be outside all afternoon and anyway sun tan cream wears off, doesn't it?

Sun cream doesn't stop you getting heat stroke; only stops you burning.
That's not good - your son burning like that though. I haven't got a clue why schools make the kids stay out in summer so long. Apparently the 'stay in the shade between 12 and 3 rule' doesn't apply to schools!

Orm - she's 8 - she probably didn't think to say anything and to be honest, when I had heat stroke last year, I would never have guessed as I had literally sat in partial sun for an hour in warm, not hot, weather. So my body wasn't telling me it was too hot etc.