How many times did you have to visit the school nurse in your school days?

[OneUmberJoker]

Just once for a headache in primary school.

Never, there wasn't one.

Ours used to let us have a nap if we felt a bit poorly (in the 90s) so I had a period where I’d go every couple of weeks if I wanted a rest.

We did not have a school nurse - I went to school in the 1970s and 1980s and none of the schools round us had a 'nurse'.

You reported to the office and they told you to go sit in a cloakroom for about 15 minutes if you had a headache, then sent you back to class. I was never sent home for being ill and don't think anyone else was. Parents were working/had no transport to collect kids. You just toughed it out in class til home time.

We used to call the school nurse ‘matron’.

A school nurse?
No such thing.

There wasn't one on site when I was at school in the UK, and I'm pretty sure France doesn't have them (although I left France at age 11). I assumed it was just an American thing?

Never had one. I’m in Ireland and was in primary in the 80’s. I don’t remember anyone caring if you felt sick or had a headache. I only remember going home once after I got hit in the face with a sliotar. The principal drove me home! Wouldn’t happen now.

Once when I was 7, I’d taken quite a tumble in the playground and had a big graze that needed patching up. Went back later that day because my arm hurt…..turns out my wrist was broken.
And then once when I was in my teens because I got caught short at school when I’d run out of sanitary pads 🫣🫣🫣🫣

I was at a big state secondary in the 90s and we had a school nurse who was a qualified nurse who we called Matron. She was very old school but always had a stream of kids, usually enjoying an hour out of lessons.

We had a nurse and medical room. People used to go there to avoid lessons they didn't like. I went once in sixth form and the nurse asked if I was new, as she'd never seen me before. I was luckily generally well, so I also didn't have a day off sick until sixth form either.

and as others have said: at primary school, we didn’t have an actual nurse, just a TA who was First Aid trained.
Cant remember if the woman in sick bay at my secondary school was an actual nurse or not

A couple of times when I fainted in class period pain. My father picked me up.

I don't think we had one so never

We didn’t have a school nurse ( 1970’s)

Yes we had one. I went to a comprehensive school in the 90s. I am not entirely sure, but I think we called her matron too.

I visited her a once or twice for grazes. There was a rumour that, whatever your ailment, Matron would give you a Rennie. Kids would say, oh did you go to Matron? Naa no point she would only give me a Rennie. Did you go see Matron? Yeah, she gave me a Rennie.

We had one in our big comprehensive school. I had terrible period pains so I was there every month, mostly just arrived at her door in time to faint. She was very kind and I'd be tucked under a blanket with a hot water bottle until my dad came to pick me up.

In primary school in the 90s I remember a day where we all queued up to be weighed measured and have our head checks for nits. I also had to go once when I did a handstand against a railing and my legs went through the metal bars I still wince thinking about that!
In secondary school I think it was as much as possible to try and get out of lessons!

Lol - what's a school nurse...

Nit nurse came round regularly to root through the hair of kids in long lines.
Remember a trolley of some description in school in the 70s
Had a lot of headaches, zero fucks given by any adults, no sympathy or empathy.
Turns out I needed glasses.

Loads in primary school as i was always falling over and grazing my knees. The nurse was lovely and mum to one of the boys in our class so everyone just called her "Josh's mum".

Never in secondary school. Matron was terrifying, i would rather take my chances!

We didn't have one, it was just the ladies in the office. Most they could give you was a plaster.

I went multiple times a month for a while faking illness so my dad would come and get me. I hated school at that point, grew out of it though.

Only had to go legitimately once when I knee'd myself in the face doing high jump and had a massive nosebleed.

This.

Never.......she was my Mum and woukd have just sent me back to class😀

I was never sent to the nurse for any illness. Once a year in secondary school (1950s) we used to be visited by what we called the "nit nurse" who would inspect our hair, ears, fingernails and appearance for general cleanliness. We were summoned by class and one time I was sent straight from the science lab. I had spilled something from an experiment down my skirt and not had an opportunity to clean it up. The nurse made some idisparaging remarks and when I told her that it had been done in class that had just left I was told off for answering back. She told me that I was "letting the school down" and that she would send for me again next day so I had better clean myself up. My grandmother was not impressed and next day she turned up at the school and had a real "go" at one of the teachers. My grandmother was a very formidable lady with a cut glass accent. Needless to say I did not have to appear in front of the "nit nurse" again that day.

I often wondered what happened to children who failed to meet the required standard. No doubt their parents got a snitty letter from the school.

Never. Not that I remember anyway.

There was a school nurse at the secondary school I went to in the late seventies and early eighties. She usually seemed to us have nothing to do. Her room was down a corridor where there were offices and meeting rooms. I remember being in a room nearby when I was in sixth form and could hear her nextdoor listening to The Archers.