To complain to the school.

[honeymom]

That they think it's appropriate to take children on an educational trip to the beach today, where there is very little shade and the children will be exposed to the midday sun for nearly 5 hours, even with good suncream reapplied regually I would never keep my children in the sun for that long, So why on earth would the school think it's a good idea?

It seems that if you are a school you can just ignore Every bit of sun safety information out there? should I complain or am I be unreasonable?

Well obviously Morloth Australia are totally more sun aware than many people in the UK.
The UK should take a leaf out of your book and apply it for them if they're young and let the older ones reapply.
Read an worrying article yesterday actually saying that it could be the sun creams causing free radical damage to our cells and actually causing skin cancer! Not sure about the evidence there but said they had tested urine and found people had suncream ingredients beiing absorbed into the blood stream.

Well obviously Morloth Australia are totally more sun aware than many people in the UK.
The UK should take a leaf out of your book and apply it for them if they're young and let the older ones reapply.
Read an worrying article yesterday actually saying that it could be the sun creams causing free radical damage to our cells and actually causing skin cancer! Not sure about the evidence there but said they had tested urine and found people had suncream ingredients beiing absorbed into the blood stream.

Well obviously Morloth Australia are totally more sun aware than many people in the UK.
The UK should take a leaf out of your book and apply it for them if they're young and let the older ones reapply.
Read an worrying article yesterday actually saying that it could be the sun creams causing free radical damage to our cells and actually causing skin cancer! Not sure about the evidence there but said they had tested urine and found people had suncream ingredients beiing absorbed into the blood stream.

Well obviously Morloth Australia are totally more sun aware than many people in the UK.
The UK should take a leaf out of your book and apply it for them if they're young and let the older ones reapply.
Read an worrying article yesterday actually saying that it could be the sun creams causing free radical damage to our cells and actually causing skin cancer! Not sure about the evidence there but said they had tested urine and found people had suncream ingredients beiing absorbed into the blood stream.

So sorry - haven't got a clue what I just did but now there are loads of the above post - sorry.

You clearly meant it lucie

I like to make sure people are listening.

We are in the UK luciemule.

The sun cream skin cancer thing is really simple for me. Sun cream may cause cancer, the sun does, I know which dice I am going to roll.

of course and I sent off my two with cream on this morning - was just commenting on the article.

Bah humbug. We used to love trips to the beach with school as kids, we used to go for educational reasons...educational visits etc etc, all sorts. And sports day wouldn't be the same if it wasn't a beautiful sunny day. I don't know how we managed.

We burnt!

Did you? I must be odd then, despite being a pale freckle monster, I used to manage whole summers running around on the beach for 12 hours at a stretch without burning, let alone a few hours of the school day.

I'm not trying to dismiss anyone's worries, just say that this isn't new and I'm sure it isn't all that much hotter than it was 10 yrs ago.

If the school aren't allowed reapplyal of suncream, then YANBU - at all. I'm one of those people who really suffer in hte sun and actively seek shade wherever I am. When I was younger my sister and I were both extremely prone to heatstroke, though after the first time one of us had to go to A&E my mum knew what to do so didn't bother taking us there again.

Frankly, the short notice is the other thing that bothers me here - surely schools must realise that while the majority of children will probably be fine, there will be some who cannot cope wiht being out in the sun for that long? Why on earth didn't they give parents longer to query the arrangements?

Also, what's the educational value in going toa beach in summer that you can't get in the spring or autumn? At secondary school we did a project about beaches and all trooped over to the coast in mid December. Yes, it was bloody freezing, and I'm not advocating that to primary school children, but if the trip is to learn, why do it at the height of summer? I know I can't concentrate in the heat; never could. They'd have been better off going in April.

here, here.

Jesus Christ!

Are there any old fogies over 40 year olds like me out there?

Are you all still alive after suffering the cruelty of being taken to the beach on a sunny day? What wicked teachers we had, good grief, how dare they think we might have enjoyed our trips to the seaside and not considered the perils and pitfalls of a little sunshine.

I'm amazed I'm still here to tell the tale, really I am.

I am "not allowed" to apply suncream to the children with SN I am responsible for in my job

two in particular are very, very pale and they would not be up to putting the cream on themselves properly

so I do it anyway

I am not going to watch children burn, end of story

It will probably rain anyway, don't worry

Think schools have a 'duty of care' and so could be in trouble if they let your children burn/get sunstroke.

Not just me then? I thought not!

You're absolutely not alone,s ee my earlier posts. How I managed for whole summers (same age as you Tombliboob) without burning to a crisp or getting sunstroke or whatever I don't know.

val - I'm still here! Not yet wrinkled like a prune

well seeming as skin cancer is the second biggest cancer in teenagers ? i'm suprized at the attitude well we lived so whats the harm, over exposure to the sun can be very funny,, Should I let my children smoke then seeming as there are plenty of old ppl who smoked and it never did them any harm ?? cancer uk recommend they be kept out of the sun? why do ppl see skin cancer differently to things like lung cancer?

On one hand I think your DC is lucky our school doesnt do anything much, oh they went to the toy museum in LOndon a couple of years back, yrs 1 & 2, oh and yr 6 go to Norfolk as looking at coastal erosion and stuff in october,
But then on the other hand,
Our school wont apply sun cream either, it has to be applied in the morning before school, and this is supposed to protect the children all day,
Are they taking anything like parasols, gazebo etc for the children to sit under?