Primary school bans ALL drinks except water from kids’ packed lunches

A PRIMARY school has banned ALL drinks except water from kids' packed lunches - with one mum threatening to pull her kids out over the diktat.

St Andrew's Primary School in Hull, Yorks., sparked outrage from parents when it extended the 15-year-old classroom ban on sugary drinks to packed lunches this year.

One mum raged to the : "Our kid's headteacher at primary has now not only issued a ban on juice during the day but now only water with kids' packed lunches due to allergies and dairy allergies.

"He won't put the allergy sufferers in a different room saying it's penalising them but it's also penalising the children without allergies.

"There is absolute uproar about it. It's not nice to have a child with allergies but instead of upsetting everyone, and like he says it's life-threatening, he needs to make sure the kids who have these life-threatening allergies are in their own safe area to eat what they want.

"We as parents are absolutely enraged. We give our children school compliant juices for their dinners as a lot of our children don't like water.

"It's like we are back at school ourselves, there's always some daft rule in place."

Headteacher Graham Huckstep said he had received just three negative emails about the policy - out of a school with 600 pupils.

He said: "St Andrew's like most schools are developing our 'Healthy Bodies/Healthy Minds' approach.

"Reducing sugary drinks and improving attitudes towards healthy bodies is a national project, as you are aware.