Sunscreen...

[Pyrrah]

Is there a rule against teachers applying sunscreen?

Picked DD up today from primary school nursery and she's quite badly burnt on her face and arms - as were a lot of the other children.

Tomorrow I will be sending a bottle in, but am a bit shocked and annoyed that the staff allowed the kids to get so burnt considering the health implications from sunburn - especially at such a young age.

Was not sunny when set off for school hence I hadn't put it on this morning.

[GrimSqueaker]

At nursery they asked you to cream them up before they came in, and they kept a huge bottle of stuff in that they'd re-cream them with at lunchtime - or you could send their own in.

School and the kids apply their own under staff "direction" (it's a bit more heavily "directed" in Reception or the kids will end up looking like ghosts from the amount they put on) - I've just bought solarbuddies (Amazon or their own site sell 'em) which seems to make it much easier for my kids to apply their own in the middle of the day themselves - they're like refillable roll ons nice and chunky and child-hand shaped with a sponge part to help rub the cream in - I'm going to buy another to keep at home as I can't stand the feeling of suncream to make it easier for me to apply it at the start of the day too.

[bostonkremekrazy]

My DC came home from school on Thursday with red arms.....the first time ever that she has been sunburnt :( She is just 5.
As it was 'nice' her class teacher took every opportunity to let the class out to play, obviously most of the children had no suncream on, or 'left on' around lunch-time, or after lunch, as parents apply it around 8am, and it needs re-applying every 2 hours or so - unless your child can use the 8 hour one.....not every child can!

Friday I went into school at lunchtime to reapply suncream, and explain to the teacher that she cannot wear the 8 hour stuff, and will therefore need suncream on before going outside at lunchtime. The teacher looked at me like I was mad - until I called my child over and showed her the still red arms from the day before.....

Yes its April.....some fair children can burn in the hour lunch play in April sadly....

[HumptyD93]

School worker here....We (at our school, I cannot speak for others) are not allowed to put suncream on the children.
Children can bring a bottle in but they must put it on themselves. We dont have a spare bottle at school for those who forget.
(though we would encourage children without cream to play in the shade or limit how long they play out for)

I put the longer lasting one (like P20...think it was called "once" and was a high factor too, only needed applying once a day) on my children when they were younger, now they are able to put it on themselves they can take a bottle of regular cream in. We put a generous helping on before school and they top up at lunch time.