Water - did you drink in school?

I agree Jess. We had water and glasses on the lunch table s but I can't remember even having a drink then. Nor do I remember fountains!

My daughters all gave a water, or very weak ribena, on the go all the time - the boys don't seem to do the same. I still rarely drink between meals unless DH makes and am aware that I should drink more.

Water jugs and plastic beakers on the table at lunch time, drinks provided at half-time during matches, milk at break in the morning. No water fountains. At primary school, we had a metal cup on a chain attached to a tap. No-one brought drinks including the packed lunch pupils. And we used to set the tables for lunch and clear away. This included putting up the heavy folding tables.

We had water at lunch time, milk mid morning (those little 1/3 bottles which warmed up as the morning progressed - yuk) but I don't remember anything being available in the afternoon. At home there was only water, milk or tea - squash was for high days and holidays only. I wasn't allowed to drink from water fountains either - germs!
My gc's all drink lots of water and always have a water bottle with them. In Oz there are water 'bubblers' everywhere which the gc's use.
I try to drink as much water as possible during the day. I tend to have a glass after going to the loo ( a natural reminder!) to replace what I have just got rid of!

In my junior school we weren't allowed to bring food or drink certainly not sweets to school except for packed lunch. I remember queuing at the fountain at break time.
I don't remember there being fountains at senior school. We certainly were not allowed to drink in class as they are encouraged to do now. Even when DGS was in pre school they were asked to bring a drink each session.
At home mum and dad had a cuppa with their evening meal. My brother and I had squash when we wanted it.

Water was available on the lunch tables. I can't remember if I ever drank any – a little perhaps, occasionally. At home I drank milk but probably not as much as a pint a day. My mother was opposed to water-drinking at meal times because she thought it diluted the digestive acids !!

There were no water fountains at my school.

Never crossed our minds to drink in school but my sisters and I went home for lunch and there would be water on the table then.

Remember the little bottles of milk. Sitting on the radiators in winter to de-ice. We did have access to the milk all day so usually had more than one bottle. We had water at lunch time also but don't remember water fountains.

For some inexplicable reason I was not allowed to drink water until the 'soup' course had been finished - strange man my Dad! Likewise, when of an age to partake of alcohol, wine was not allowed during the pudding course . I soon put him right on that one...........

I do remember drinking fountains - I would always let the water run a bit in the vain belief that it would wash away residual germs. We had our little bottles of mik too. I am very ambivalent on these ubiquitous water bottles. Is it that snacks and junk food contain more salt or because indoor temperatures are higher than in our childhood? On the plus side water can help keep you alert. I am doing exam invigilation which is OK but once you have read the exam paper and dished out the odd tissue, continuation sheet and treasury tag, can also be mind numbing and a quick swig of water helps me not to nod off especially when it is warm!!

I remember plastic beakers on the lunch tables. They always smelled of milk. I also remember "drinking down" the food, ie swallowing large lumps of meat because I hated it so and the awful dinner ladies made us eat it! I remember drinking fountains too. But no, no plastic bottles, or the need for them.

"soup course"?! At home?! Wow! Another world.

I remember water jugs on the dinner tables at school, but I don't think I bothered. I had the odd swig at a bubbler, and drank the milk, unless it was warm, yuk!
I hardly ever drink water, but I drink lots of tea. Who wants to cart a bottle of water around? Not me.

I am finding fizzy water to be a good dieting aid.

I think it's reasonable to carry water bottles in hot climates but here! People seem to think they'll get dehydrated watching a film or sitting in the theatre. It must be a nuisance carrying a bottle with you everywhere.

Jugs of water on the school lunch table and those French Duralex glasses which were liable to shatter for no reason at all.

At boarding school there were big bottles of Tango from the tuck shop and cold Coke from the revolutionary new machine outside it.

And after a certain age slipping off to country pubs....

I also had a Dad with strange ideas. We were not allowed drinks with our meals because he said it lead to "swilling, which is what pigs do".

Squash was for birthdays and other parties and milk was only for tea - we didn't even have cereals. It was water and tea at home and water fountains, yucky milk in little bottles and metal jugs of water with plastic beakers for lunchtime at school. We survived and were very active so obviously got enough liquid!

No school I went to had a water fountain [only in the parks]. No water coolers either. Jugs of water and glasses on the table at lunchtimes, and milk in the mornings[ frozen solid in Winter.] No, we didn't get dehydrated did we?I don't understand this need to cart bottles of water all over the place.

Never had a drink during the day at school. Not allowed fluids at dinner as we would fill ourselves up and not eat the meal, father's rule. Afternoon tea was a cup of weak tea. We could have had milk at bedtime but as we didn't have a fridge I always refused.

We always drank from the large stone fountain in the courtyard ast break time- and always had water with our lunch at home- and always dran water from another large stone fountain on the way home or when playing out. We lived in limestone country, and fresh water was avaialble everwhere- each village having many many of those fountain, one in every street.

Grumpa you were certainly spoilt at boarding school! We only had water, milk, weak cocoa and tea. I seem to remember having squash if it was your birthday but definitely nothing fizzy. I don't think I had a fizzy drink until I was in my teens

In my teens I thought it was clever to not drink water and it would eep me thin so it's no wonder I suffered from headaches and used to faint sometimes. Can't remember what I drank when I was a child.

I wonder if many schools are overheated nowadays so that kids feel thirstier? I certainly always found Minibags's primary school too warm.

Cubs run around a lot and quite often, ten minutes before they are due to go home, half or more of them start clamouring for a drink. I'm usually thirsty at that stage too but I manage to survive until I get home. I really don't see why they can't last a couple of hours (I'm including time to get to cubs and time to go home after the one and a half hour session) without a drink. We used to provide squash but several of them always spilled it and we got fed up of having to get the mop out so stopped. I think they should swill their hot faces with cold water from the tap and have a slurp while they're at it.

We had water fountains at both schools that I attended and there was, of course, jugs of water and glasses on the dining tables at lunch time for those who stayed for school meals; little bottles of milk or squash in the morning and little bottles of squash in the afternoon.

My mother frowned upon drinking anything with a meal (and she still does) and any drinks we were allowed couldn't be drunk until the meal was finished.

I was a water freak long, long before it became fashionable anyway: as a child and then teenager, I disliked tea, wasn't allowed coffee, never liked fizzy drinks (and still don't) but I would occasionally drink squash. My mother, thinking she was funny, made me a cup of hot water on a cold, winter day and I loved hit and drank it for the following 30+ years - then I was diagnosed with flabby kidneys and told to cut back on drinking so much water! I had to learn to like tea and coffee.

I remember a skit on tv about the water fad: it was set in an office and one worker picked up her small bottle of water and drank from the bottle, the woman next to her picked up a litre bottle and drank from that and on it went along the row of workers until it got to the woman at the end who picked up one of those enormous bottles that sit on communal drinking machines and she drank out of that - quite funny at the time.