Newhaven primary school hit by mystery illness (From The Argus)

sensible action taken by the school, these drinking fountains sound unhygenic to me,we always hope the children use them properly but there is always an element that they don't,i would stay clear.

Rubbish report - what are the symptoms? Also make sense of the statement 'as a precaution they switched off the drinking fountains to stop the spread of infection. There is no suggestion that the water is contaminated'. If the water is pure why turn it off?

as a parent who has a child who attends this school i have overheard mothers talking about there children having sickness and diarrhoea and still sending them to school without waiting the timescale needed which has not helped the situation.

prettykitty says...
11:21am Sat 30 Jun 12

as a parent who has a child who attends this school i have overheard mothers talking about there children having sickness and diarrhoea and still sending them to school without waiting the timescale needed which has not helped the situation.
Yes - too many parents regard schools as a child minding service. Somewhere to dump their kids whilst they go out to work.

Fretlessbass are you joking? Children 'have' to go to school.

Also parents contacting the argus website??? Why? And that will solve what?
If the water was contaminated at the school then so would half of newhavens households!! Imbasils....

Instead of going to the media support your school. I agree with dcsussex. Children have to go to school and parents have to go to work it is not a childminding service they are learning, what do you think children are doing at school fretlessbass??? People need to think about what they are saying before they spread mindless gossip that hasn't even been thought through. At least the school is doing something about it.

fretlessbass wrote:
Rubbish report - what are the symptoms? Also make sense of the statement 'as a precaution they switched off the drinking fountains to stop the spread of infection. There is no suggestion that the water is contaminated'. If the water is pure why turn it off?

Exactly what I was thinking - the symptoms of this illness seem to be a mystery as well!!

fretlessbass wrote:
Rubbish report - what are the symptoms? Also make sense of the statement 'as a precaution they switched off the drinking fountains to stop the spread of infection. There is no suggestion that the water is contaminated'. If the water is pure why turn it off?

Exactly what I was thinking - the symptoms of this illness seem to be a mystery as well!!

If it is d+v, the kids need to be off for 48 hours after the last bout of sickness. That is is rule at our school and parents should be ashamed of themselves if they are sending their children into school whilst the child is ill. It is not fair on the child, the others and the teachers. Use your common sense, if you have any!

longman wrote:
If it is d+v, the kids need to be off for 48 hours after the last bout of sickness. That is is rule at our school and parents should be ashamed of themselves if they are sending their children into school whilst the child is ill. It is not fair on the child, the others and the teachers. Use your common sense, if you have any!

Excuse me when people phone to say their kid is sick they don't believe you and make you feel bad for not sending them take it you haven't rung schools to pull a sicki !

No I havent rung school to lie to them and, no, I havent taken mine out of school during term time to take them on holiday! I value education, but I happen to have enough common sense to keep my children off when they are sick! d+v spreads extremely quickly through schools and teachers dont thank those parents who send their kids in when they are throwing up left, right and centre. If your school makes you feel that bad about keeping your child off when they are sick, perhaps you are taking them out of school too often for 'phantom' illnesses or for mid-term holidays!

Parents are sending their children back to school to soon after they have had the bug and therefore spreading the infection. If the water supply was to blame then every teacher would have been affected along with loads more of the children and the nursery. The school is taking all the right precautions and is protecting the children from further outbreaks, parents need to do the same! It is not just this school having problems with this bug either, several other schools in the town are suffering from this bug but there parents haven't gone running to the press!! If parents take some responsibility and follow the 48hr rule then the problem wouldn't be so great!

longman wrote:
No I havent rung school to lie to them and, no, I havent taken mine out of school during term time to take them on holiday! I value education, but I happen to have enough common sense to keep my children off when they are sick! d+v spreads extremely quickly through schools and teachers dont thank those parents who send their kids in when they are throwing up left, right and centre. If your school makes you feel that bad about keeping your child off when they are sick, perhaps you are taking them out of school too often for 'phantom' illnesses or for mid-term holidays!

No acutely we don't !

I have a child well 2 at this school and many mums and dads think there is more to what they are telling as the teachers have said whoever is saying there is things wrong with the water they are mistaken it it the children telling as that the teachers have said they must not drink the water as it is dirty yes parents are sending there children back to soon because they feel they have to and it is not just the children staff have been seen in there ill without leaving the right time span off i feel that the school should have been shut under investigation the school is is loosing the respect of the parents as they feel there children are at risk many are looking to move there children

slinky123 wrote:
Parents are sending their children back to school to soon after they have had the bug and therefore spreading the infection. If the water supply was to blame then every teacher would have been affected along with loads more of the children and the nursery. The school is taking all the right precautions and is protecting the children from further outbreaks, parents need to do the same! It is not just this school having problems with this bug either, several other schools in the town are suffering from this bug but there parents haven't gone running to the press!! If parents take some responsibility and follow the 48hr rule then the problem wouldn't be so great!

Maybe this is to do with other factors like the incinerater or all the crap they burn and bring in this town but anything like that will be hushed up I only hope Norman Baker will investigate I mean for god sake these are children as in SERIOUS !!!

slinky123 wrote:
Parents are sending their children back to school to soon after they have had the bug and therefore spreading the infection. If the water supply was to blame then every teacher would have been affected along with loads more of the children and the nursery. The school is taking all the right precautions and is protecting the children from further outbreaks, parents need to do the same! It is not just this school having problems with this bug either, several other schools in the town are suffering from this bug but there parents haven't gone running to the press!! If parents take some responsibility and follow the 48hr rule then the problem wouldn't be so great!

the nursery water was said to be ok and drinkable funny that only the water in infants and upper school was not drinkable and even staff was walking around with water bottles why was the kids told walter was dirty

Maybe this is to do with other factors like the incinerater or all the crap they burn and bring in this town but anything like that will be hushed up I only hope Norman Baker will investigate I mean for god sake these are children as in SERIOUS !!!

If it was the water supply then the surrounding households would be having the same problem. They have probably switched the drinking fountains off as some children put their mouths on it and therefore spread the germs. Germs spread more easily between children, I don't agree with the incinerator being here but I wouldn't of thought that it would cause this as we can see it from our house and we are not affected my child neither. This could happen in any school at least they are doing something about it. Going to the press is not helping, help your school rather than bring it down even more. Some people haven't even got a brain cell between them. Honestly!!!!

Koala7 wrote:
If it was the water supply then the surrounding households would be having the same problem. They have probably switched the drinking fountains off as some children put their mouths on it and therefore spread the germs. Germs spread more easily between children, I don't agree with the incinerator being here but I wouldn't of thought that it would cause this as we can see it from our house and we are not affected my child neither. This could happen in any school at least they are doing something about it. Going to the press is not helping, help your school rather than bring it down even more. Some people haven't even got a brain cell between them. Honestly!!!!

i quite agree my children havnt had the d and v but they have refilled there water bottles at school so it cant be the water ,also there is d+v in other newhaven schools aswell you should support your school at least the school has contacted the right people for advice to get rid of the bug so i say well done to the school !

Koala7 wrote:
If it was the water supply then the surrounding households would be having the same problem. They have probably switched the drinking fountains off as some children put their mouths on it and therefore spread the germs. Germs spread more easily between children, I don't agree with the incinerator being here but I wouldn't of thought that it would cause this as we can see it from our house and we are not affected my child neither. This could happen in any school at least they are doing something about it. Going to the press is not helping, help your school rather than bring it down even more. Some people haven't even got a brain cell between them. Honestly!!!!

This sounds like a member of staff to me ummmm I wonder???

lillylou wrote:

Koala7 wrote: If it was the water supply then the surrounding households would be having the same problem. They have probably switched the drinking fountains off as some children put their mouths on it and therefore spread the germs. Germs spread more easily between children, I don't agree with the incinerator being here but I wouldn't of thought that it would cause this as we can see it from our house and we are not affected my child neither. This could happen in any school at least they are doing something about it. Going to the press is not helping, help your school rather than bring it down even more. Some people haven't even got a brain cell between them. Honestly!!!!

This sounds like a member of staff to me ummmm I wonder???

I'm not a member of staff at the school. It's pure common sense.