school milk

[Arran]

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In my LEA milk is only available to kids in nursery, reception class, and KS1 in primary and infant schools. It is not available to KS2 kids in primary and junior schools.

It was possible on rare occasions for a KS2 kid in my primary school to have a bottle free of charge if a reception or KS1 class was on an all day school trip or if some other reason it wasn't attending that day because the order was set for the entire term and wasn't reduced for day to day absences.

[darren]

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Infant school sounds like nursery school.

Jnr school u mean primary school mate.

strange only the 4 youngest got a bottle.
When i was in primary school everyone got a bottle of milk everyone in every class got one.
I was a good boy i drank up everyday.:d

well i love how cold it was it kinda give me a sore head cause it was cold but just for a few seconds.

i well remember school milk. 1/3 pint bottles. In the infants school, everybody had a bottle. In junior school, only the four youngest in the class. I was one of them. What the reason was for this, i have no idea. I had a right telling off in the first year of the junior school for not drinking it one day. The problem being, i didn't always want it. Another telling off in the fourth year by the headmaster for not drinking it. The telling off got a bit hot under the collar when i told him i was not drinking it if i didn't want it. To be fair, most days i did enjoy it. It was usually cold. When i got to the comprehensive, that was the end of milk. By then, i did not miss it.

[marc]

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I well remember school milk. 1/3 pint bottles. In the infants school, everybody had a bottle. In junior school, only the four youngest in the class. I was one of them. What the reason was for this, I have no idea. I had a right telling off in the first year of the junior school for not drinking it one day. The problem being, I didn't always want it. Another telling off in the fourth year by the headmaster for not drinking it. The telling off got a bit hot under the collar when I told him I was not drinking it if I didn't want it. To be fair, most days I did enjoy it. It was usually cold. When I got to the comprehensive, that was the end of milk. By then, I did not miss it.

[Twocky61]

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Little bottles (250mil I think) & there was a nerdish class milk monitor who used to hand them out to as kids

I used to grab a second bottle

Nowadays school milk is still delevered to schools & nurseries in pint poly bottles

My brother-in law is a franchisee of Dairy Crest & he delivers these poly bottles of milk to a few nurseries but not to infant/primary schools. Perhaps it is not deemed to be needed in schools nowadays. I reckon it should still go on as kids nowadays buy fizzy drinks from Coke vending machines at school because the machine is provided free and the school makes money on each can/bottle sold

[DSCOMAN]

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Yes, Milk Monitors used to give the milk out didn't they ?

I used to drink the carton, or 'FREE' milk at school, and one time had 'seconds'......BIG mistake.
It was horrible tasting and teacher told me to go and pour it away.
I left the classroom and went to the BIG old porcelain sinks they had in primary schools (looked like horse troughs) - and poured the 'milk' out - well the sight of the curdled yellow blobs and the stench !
Put me off milk for life....never drink it now AT ALL

[zabadak]

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I was milk monitor once, back in the carton days!

[Arran]

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They still have milk in primary schools but it now comes in cartons in my area and its semi-skimmed rather than full fat. An internet search has revealed that the glass bottles were still being used in primary schools in South Tyneside and Leicester as recently as 2007, but I can't find any photos or videos of them. I have no idea where else in Britain primary schools got their milk in glass bottles after 1990 but it's possible that there were several other places.

[darren]

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I was 15 in 1990 so my school life was near over.

Maybe in some parts of the country bottles of milk where still given out.

I thought school milk in the small bottles was done away with by 1990.
School milk i assume was only available for kids in primary school.
Man i loved it so much.

[Trickyvee]

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I didn't even realise they still gave out milk in schools into the 90's and 00's. Must admit I can't remember seeing those 1/3 pint bottles much after my time in Primary school (mid 80's) so their use must have been pretty rare by then, at least in my area.

[Arran]

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They didn't have them at secondary school. Only nursery through to Y2 kids at primary school. I have spent many hours searching through loads of old photos from primary schools in my LEA on Facebook and I couldn't find a single one with the milk bottles in. Neither are there any videos of primary schools in my LEA from the 1990s apart from an odd few school plays.

[Richard1978]

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I remember 1/3 pint bottles on sale at the school canteen when I was in secondary school in 1989, but had changed to cartons by about 1992.

[Arran]

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Has anybody got any good colour photos or video clips from the 1990s of primary school kids drinking milk out of small glass bottles? All the photos I can find on the internet are black and white and must be at least 40 years old.

The milk at my primary school for morning break used to come in small third pint glass bottles with silver tops during the 1990s and they were still in use when I finished school in 2001. Some time since then (2005?) they changed to cartons. I have confirmed that the bottles were used in other schools in the same LEA during the 1990s.

[DemonEyeX]

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Mine always came in a carton, and yes - it was always warm & nasty.
I love milk, luckily I wasn't put off for life.

[sweep]

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you did not like the taste of it.

perhaps the milk you got was somehow different from what i got.
mine was gorgeous.

i always looked forward to it so much.

Warm and sour with added crusty bits yum

[darren]

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you did not like the taste of it.

perhaps the milk you got was somehow different from what i got.
mine was gorgeous.

i always looked forward to it so much.

Disgusting stuff always on the verge of turning put me off milk for life. worked as a school caretaker a few years ago and was surprised to find this torture still going on.