Children not allowed squash in school !

vicisthebest said:
School dinners are not allowed to be pizza/chips all the time. Pizza bases must be wholewheat. They are allowed to serve oven chips once a week and can only serve potato-based carbs twice a week. There must be two portions of vegetables and most schools also serve salad. School dinners are not allowed salt to be added to the recipes. They can't have ketchup unless it is home-made.
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In your school perhaps. This is not true of all schools. All three schools on my sons schools campus serve Heinz Ketchup everyday,Sausages rolls, Cornish Pasties, Bacon Sarnies and Chips are available in the canteen everyday (except Friday)...they also have salad and healthy options available every day as well....they have coke machines, vending machines with crisps, chocolate etc freely available have no policy on allowing or disallowing children to visit the chip shop or newsagent next door either.

Hence he takes a packed lunch and express instructions that if we find out he has left the school grounds at lunch time without good reason then he will lose privileges.

The only thing my sons school enforces (not the other two) is meat free Friday, where the canteen serves only vegetarian options.
 
gublok said:
i had this with my kids
apparently it ok for to buy enagey drink at brecfeast club though
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Totally different kettle of fish... In my opinion these drinks should be no where near kids! its pretty dim sign when you see 8 year olds walking to school supping on a can of rockstar.
 
Same in my boys school and another that I know a teacher from.
We've continued to send him with a drink that he likes, sugar free squash.

Stupid rule that we will not be adhering to.
 
Castiel said:
In your school perhaps. This is not true of all schools. All three schools on my sons schools campus serve Heinz Ketchup everyday,Sausages rolls, Cornish Pasties, Bacon Sarnies and Chips are available in the canteen everyday (except Friday)...they also have salad and healthy options available every day as well....they have coke machines, vending machines with crisps, chocolate etc freely available have no policy on allowing or disallowing children to visit the chip shop or newsagent next door either.

The only thing my sons school enforces (not the other two) is meat free Friday, where the canteen serves only vegetarian options.
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Is one of the schools a primary school? Secondary school menus are less rigid as the pupils are given more independence to make choices for themselves.

The rules I spoke about are for all primary schools in our local authority. I assumed they were nationwide rules; perhaps not it seems.
 
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FoxEye said:
Punters are just as stupid tho.

Every year there's a new "super food" that gets hyped up on TV. A while back it was pomegranates or something else beginning with P :p

And for a while the local supermarket has them prominently on display and you see all the the easily led masses filling up their baskets with false hope.

Then after the fad dies down everyone sobers up and begins to realise that no, a pomegranate shake every day will not make you miraculously feel younger, fitter, healthier. And so they go back to crisps and pop.

I imagine there's good money to be made with these fads.
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yeah the world is full of idiots ;)
 
rotters said:
Totally different kettle of fish... In my opinion these drinks should be no where near kids! its pretty dim sign when you see 8 year olds walking to school supping on a can of rockstar.
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On that I will happily agree for you.

Pop and fuzzy drinks are not grand for kids (though again in moderation no real harm) it is an unreal site when you drive past a school like I did this morning and see a kid who looked no older than 11-12 with a huge weight problem (I couldn't guess the kids weight but he was like a beachball) with a can of rockstar in one hand and a mars bar in the other at 830am :eek:
 
vicisthebest said:
Squash is coloured.
When spilt, squash is sticky (as is flavoured water) and it stains/marks clothing, work, carpets etc. If a bit of water is spilt on a school carpet it dries. If squash/juice is, then it is much harder to clean up.
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That would be a reasonable excuse for the rule, however I bet that is not what is said by the staff. My boys school claim anything other than water is unhealthy for children of his age (8), which frankly is a load of crap.
 
No1newts said:
OP has said nothing of excessive drinking. I hardly think a drink of squash on a lunchtime of a school day is excessive nor bad for you.

Please provide evidence otherwise if you have it.
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OP has emphasised his reluctance to abuse his child by way of plain water.... so I'll leave OP to deliver the facts of exactly how much squash his child drinks.

Blooming squash drinkers.... I'm off to make one for myself :D
 
vicisthebest said:
But I'm assuming that the OP is talking about the water bottle his son has on his desk in the classroom - correct me if I'm wrong OP.
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so why are they pouring it away? Shouldn't they just say "you can only have that at dinner time"

same as colleges/workplaces that say you can have plain water at your desk (for spillage reasons), but you can drink whatever you like in the canteen.
 
I drink loads of squash. The Sainsbury's Lemon No added sugar squash tells me that a 250ml glass of juice diluted 9:1 has 0.2g of sugar and only trace amounts of everything else. I would argue that even drinking this all day long (as I do) wouldn't be an issue.
 
Burnsy2023 said:
I drink loads of squash. The Sainsbury's Lemon No added sugar squash tells me that a 250ml glass of juice diluted 9:1 has 0.2g of sugar and only trace amounts of everything else. I would argue that even drinking this all day long (as I do) wouldn't be an issue.
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You're clearly a Sainsburys shill!
 
There shouldn't be much spillage even if knocked over, all the children need to have proper drinks bottles so it's not like the whole contents will spill any where.
 
vicisthebest said:
Squash is coloured.
When spilt, squash is sticky (as is flavoured water) and it stains/marks clothing, work, carpets etc. If a bit of water is spilt on a school carpet it dries. If squash/juice is, then it is much harder to clean up.
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Ribena maybe, that's has loads of sugar in it and is far too sweet for me, but anything that is no added sugar doesn't leave much if any residue if spilt.
 
vicisthebest said:
Is one of the schools a primary school? Secondary school menus are less rigid as the pupils are given more independence to make choices for themselves.
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No they aren't. I didn't realise you were only referring to Primary schools...my son is now 14 and it is a secondary school campus.

To be honest, the school menus (and the vending machines especially) are pretty disgraceful....a school shouldn't dictate to a Parent what food they give to their child unduly, but at the same time they shouldn't undermine them by making such foods easily accessible (at a profit no doubt) either.

This has gone too far in my opinion....if there is a concern for a child's health (say he/she is obese and coming to school packed out with junk) then some kind of intervention should be made possible, but other than that Schools should educate, not dictate.
 
I stopped this nonsense by walking into the heads office and demanding he tell me what authority he has to dictate what my child eats. I also pointed out that there was nothing of health on the school menu and he should keep his nose out of my parental responsibility.

Clearly I am a terrible parent.
 
Burnsy2023 said:
Ribena maybe, that's has loads of sugar in it and is far too sweet for me, but anything that is no added sugar doesn't leave much if any residue if spilt.
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We used to get ribena (as an option) as a treat at school if we'd done well heh (we had some merit card thing that could be stamped each day of the week), otherwise there was the options of water, orange juice or blackcurrant.
 
Tefal said:
so why are they pouring it away? Shouldn't they just say "you can only have that at dinner time"

same as colleges/workplaces that say you can have plain water at your desk (for spillage reasons), but you can drink whatever you like in the canteen.
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Yes, they should. I am in agreement with you there. Don't know what the rules are for lunchtime drinks at this particular school, it is so varied. Some schools are far too militant about packed lunches. Our only rule is no fizzy drinks (again, the sticky/staining if spilt reason).

Though sometimes when I see children eating chocolate spread sandwiches, followed by chocolate biscuit and crisps, I wish we did have a general rule such as having one piece of fruit in lunchbox - it wouldn't affect most parents in the slightest but the daily Nutella eaters' parents clearly don't know how to feed them a decent lunch and may need some pointers.

But hey ho.
 
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