Does your dc's school have those awful water bottles

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Hi

My ds's school gives every child a named water bottle at school.

These bottles as far as I am aware are filled up with water at the start of school so that the children can have a drink whenever they want.

They are then sent home every friday for parents to wash out and then send back on a monday.

Is it just me or are these things the worst idea yet.
The bottles that my ds's school give out are just like ordinary pop bottles and you are advised not to refill them for hygiene reasons.
Also my ds chews the caps to death making them dangerous to drink from.
If you want a new one they charge us for them.
How do they know that the children are always filling them with fresh water.

We have to provide our own and fill every day which is no hassle but i do wonder if they stay as hygenic as a beaker would as you can never really thoroughy wash the fiddly bits...

ours have them - but they come home every day.
The tops are crap (ds needed to chew it to unstiffen it so he could open it!), but the bottle is alot better than the fruit shoot types.
I thought every school did it, the others near here do, identical bottles but tops in the school colour.
Incidentally, my mum read somewhere the other day that dishwashing (or just washing?) caused a chemical to be released in drinks bottles - hence why you shouldn't reuse them. No idea how true this is.

I rinse it every day and dishwasher it at least once a week.

we have to provide our own but it bugs me big time. why oh why do they need constant watering? they won't wilt and die without it will they.

Our school provides them likes OPs BUT we bring them home evryday to be washed and fill them up in to go to school but obviously the children can fill them up as and wehn in school.

think that you should be allowed to bring them home everyday .

We do get charged if we want a new one .

Dont see any problem with water bottles in school but would want it home evry night , not once a week.

more rigid bottles with sports tops provided and labelled by dd's school. A parent volunteer washes them in Milton every night and they are soaked over the weekend. No charge - replacements sponsored by local company.

DDs school has water bottles too. In P1 we had nice ones with Regional Education Authority info on it. However, dd kept chewing the cap and we had to replace it a couple of times. You could buy replacements through the School Office. The 2nd replacement was a cheaper rigid square bottle with a very narrow neck, which was difficult to fill. So, I gave up and bought her some cheap sports cap refillable water bottles from Tescos. They get washed every night and I have a spare one in case she leaves one at school by mistake.

I must say I agree with water in schools. I never used to drink water - I hated the taste of tap water. Then, when I was pregnant, I got really thirsty and I discovered bottled water. I found I really needed to keep a bottle on my desk at work. I have kept this up, and I must say that I now suffer from far fewer headaches than I used to pre-pregnancy.

But the advice not to refill bottles is a totally spurious non existent health risk to try and make sure you always buy more from the company instead of good old free tap water. If his top is totally chewed then ask for a new one.

Agree about important it is for drinking water at school . My eldest will ask for water in prefernece to squash , juice etc even when we are out !

Our school does them, but they never come home until the end of the school year (and then they're home for good) I assume that they get washed fairly often but tbh I've never really thought to ask I only know they've got them because I've seen them on the odd times that I've been in the classrooms.

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We were asked to provide our own - dd brings it home every day (susally) and i change the water every day after a wash in hot water. I soak it in baby sterilising tablet at the weekend ready for the next week. She doesnt drink much of it, but she is not a big drinker - I have to force her to have drink before school.