school milk

[Richard1978]

Re: school milk

I've often heard that many schools didn't have a fridge bit enough to keep all the milk in, so it just had to hang around until it was served, which meant in the summer it was turning into cottage cheese.

I never remember having a problem with how fresh it was, so my schools must have been able to store it chilled or it was delivered only shortly before.

[Arran]

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The only time I remember the milk being at room temp was a few days in Y2 when my class had a swimming lesson in the morning and didn't return to school until lunch time. The milk was then served late in the afternoon by which time it was warm and tasted gross. There was an Indian kid who could drink warm milk because he was used to drinking milk fresh out of a cow so he always ended up having 3 or 4 bottles that day from other kids who hated warm milk. He couldn't stand semi-skimmed.

[Trickyvee]

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I remember it being frozen on top on occasion and the crate being left by the radiators for it to thaw, but then it would get to room temp and there'd be that yucky smell. I can see how so many kids were put off milk. Luckily I never was.

[Arran]

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I can't recall any frozen milk at primary school but there would be almost no chance of that happening because it was delivered about an hour before morning break and taken inside. It was always lovely and fresh and creamy. Milk was free in nursery but almost every KS1 kid used to drink it when their parents had to pay for it each term.

[Richard1978]

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I remember the blue straws were cut at an angle at one end to poke through the lids better.

One of my friends accidently stabbed me in the face with one, it hurt a lot but didn't do any damage.

[Trickyvee]

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The straws were always blue and very thin at my primary school. I would have preferred thicker bendy straws like they use nowadays with the cartons. Kids weren't allowed to swig the milk directly out of the bottle and had to use a straw. The school had hole punchers for the straws that looked like a large plastic bottlecap with a spike on the inside.

We always had the thin blue straws too. No hole punchers though. Used to just pierce the lid with the straw.

[Twocky61]

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In England:

Infant school is reception class to Y2
Junior school is Y3 to Y6
Primary school is reception class to Y6





Separate infant and junior schools are uncommon nowadays but they still exist.

You got it Arran I remember now

[Pussywillow]

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One of my earliest memories of school milk is seeing the 1/3 pint bottles totally frozen up in one particularly bad winter. Often wonder how they de-iced them.

[Arran]

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The straws were always blue and very thin at my primary school. I would have preferred thicker bendy straws like they use nowadays with the cartons. Kids weren't allowed to swig the milk directly out of the bottle and had to use a straw. The school had hole punchers for the straws that looked like a large plastic bottlecap with a spike on the inside.

[Littlelen]

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it was always the same 2 swotty kids getting to be milk monitor at our school. One would pull the little trolley in from the corridor and the other would temporarily remove his knuckle from his nostril and stick the blue straws in the top then hand them out. I always put my hand up to be milk monitor but I'm sure they thought I was going to run off with it like some kind of milk maniac and sadly that ship has now sailed. It really smelled like plimsoles and warm sick as far as I can remember.

[darren]

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Cheers for that mate.


Well its quite a jump from just the 4 youngest getting milk to everyone in the class getting milk when i was at primary school from 79 to about 85.

darren, back in the '70s, it was called infants school and junior school. It is the truth, only the four youngest in each class got milk.

[Arran]

Re: school milk

In England:

Infant school is reception class to Y2
Junior school is Y3 to Y6
Primary school is reception class to Y6

Separate infant and junior schools are uncommon nowadays but they still exist.

[zabadak]

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Nope, infants! Post-nurseery and pre-primary

[Twocky61]

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Infant school sounds like nursery school.

Jnr school u mean primary school mate.

Yes that's right

[marc]

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Darren, back in the '70s, it was called infants school and junior school. It is the truth, only the four youngest in each class got milk.