General Chat

Yes the changes are not good are they?

When we came back to Scotland and I was at school two towns away..... I had a FREE BUS PASS.
Lets face it, it was about 50 years ago, but I'm awfully glad I don't have Children at school today!

You must have a dreadful time of it.
The necessities are so expensive, and then there is the peer pressure in regards to clothing, toys, computers.... anything really.

You do a good job girls and boys .

Deanna X

Mind you, I have to admit, I didn't start school till 1989. We were still getting milk at our morning break time then, but only while we were in the infant years.

No fortunately no bus fares as yet Deanna as I drive them in. (we are out of catchment)

£18.50 is for two of them but I still think it's a lot to find really if some days they are only given an apple for pudding !!!!

That's pretty much all the family allowance per month spent up on that alone !! xx

£18.50???????????

My God.... That is almost restaurant prices.

mine rarely had school dinners, I was at home so they were able to come home for their dinner. then they had a tea at night.
I can't get over that!! Do you have bus fares too??

Deanna X

Kate I don't recall any of this sort of thing when I was at school. We had milk mid morning or we went without !

We had a cup of water with our school dinner or packed lunch and we ate either what our mothers packed us, or the dinner put in front of us.If we left it. Then it was assumed we just weren't hungry !!! lol.

If we were thirsty through the day at anytime we had to drink out of the water fountains !! We weren't allowed even to bring our own drinks in !! xx

Kate the reverse is now happening with the flasks.....................our school won't allow them with cups................but they allow the bottles they can drink straight out of.

Sandwiches have to be eaten first too.

xx

You reminded me of being small, Muffy. If we had anything that could be classed as sweets in school, they were taken off us. (I remember going to school the day after Bonfire Night, finding some left over Smarties in my pocket from when I went to the display and eating them furtively in the corner of the playground when no one was looking so I wouldn't be caught with them.)

The big thing in our primary school was the flask issue. We weren't allowed cans, we could have cartons with straws but if we brought flasks we had to have a cup with it to pour the juice into. I had a cycle bottle (with one of those spouts to drink from) and when I took it in, I think I was given a plastic cup to pour the juice into and told not to bring the cycle bottle in again.

Then I went to high school and was bewildered that the fifth years would be put on sweet-selling duty at breaks. On our visit day it seemed so strange that sweets weren't prohibited.

Another thing I remember picking up on was that, at primary school, we were almost conditioned to eat our sandwiches first, before anything else.

The school dinners here are really good, oven baked chips no more than once a week & everything cooked within school.
On the downside, a portion served to a 4 year old tot is the same as that served to an 11 year old who could be bigger than me!

Am a lunch time supervisor.. new name for dinner lady.....don't know where my pay rise went then!!!!!

To be honest my children wound'nt have eaten the dinners here..Last week cut up a burger for a y1 and was amazed to see peas and baked beans dished up on same plate..
Pasta and potatos together as well.

Pat

I pay £8.50 a week for my daughters school dinners she loves them and will eat almost anything but chips, but the dinnerladys know that and will offer her a baked potato or mash, chips only on the menu twice a week now.

They were 1/- when I started school, which is approx £1 in todays money, but I think they were subsidised as well.

I was paying £4.40p for my children to stay school dinners which my 2 eldest say are totally rubbish.

Lisa

OH is a teacher and well in with the catering staff and it seems they have to healthy things up, like putting banana in the choc pud and such like.

yeah remember that song well!
My school did the best roast potatoes ever, bet they're not allowed often now!

im gonna sing my song now that we (me and pals) used to sing

my school dinners
my school dinners
mushy peas mushy peas
cold semolina cold semolina
doctor quick
i feel sick
your too late
its on my plate pukkkeeeee

Rosex

Muffy,
Round here the miner used to take jam sarnies in their bait as everything else tasted bland underground!
I have my kids on packed lunch. 2 youngest went for school dinners for the 1st half of last year but didn't like them very much and were coming home ravenous. At least this way I know what they're eating. I often put a peeled carrot in for a change, philly on crackers is another fave of theirs.
eldest has took packed lunch for years as she's very picky.
I have a friend who was a school cook and she said if she ever met Jamie Oliver she wouldn't be responsible for her actions. She left to find a better paid, much less strssful job.

some dinner ladies seem to think they r the bees knees!! They have no right to tell a child wot they can or cant eat. That is up to the parents.
The only thing i say to a few of the yr 7s is that they are only allowed to use 1 hole on their dinner ticket a day (£1.50) Bcos altho they r yr 7 they still can be bullied into 'buying' food for other kids so i make sure that its for them & no1 else.
(But im not nasty! Honest!!) lol

There are certanily some over zealous dinner ladies out there. My friends son fell foul to them when he had ............ Wait for it............. JAM in his sandwiches!!! What a crime !!! My Dad lived on Jam or dripping sandwiches when he was kid. Was the way of the world then and he's as fit as an ox.

But try telling that to the lunchbox police. Give somebody little a bit of power and they invariably abuse it.

Not suggesting all dinner ladies are like it. But there are the odd bad apples that spoil it for others xx

Shymo lol like it.
Patricia my friend did go in the school and complain she told them she aint stupid and wouldnt give her children out of date food .
but our dinnerladies are soo un kool no one likes em my friend has since change her children to dinners
Rosex

u should try & get together with the other mums & complain about the cost. I know fresh food costs more but the only people that gain out of it is the actual catering company. It certainly doesnt reflect in dinner ladies wages!!!
I work in a senior school so its a bit different.
What i tend to do for the few pupils that have free dinner tickets, is give them more than wot the tickets worth cos ours are only worth £1.50 & that wont get u much in my school.
Good luck xx