Education is one of the most important things in life and every parent strives to ensure their child is given the best education available. Schools around the country welcome children in each year to teach them reading, writing and arithmetic, but these days children need to be taught more about life skills and what’s ahead of them when they finish school.

Encouraging a healthy lifestyle is one of the key topics in schools at the moment, with childhood obesity on the rise, it’s never been more important to teach children about health and eating well. Teaching kids about the health benefits of water can be easily done especially with the dominance of school drinking fountains around the classrooms and halls.

Having water fountains and encouraging children to drink from them instead of having sugary drinks will help decrease obesity levels and increase awareness of healthy living. It’s also vital to teach children about dehydration and the effects it can have such as headaches, drowsiness and even loss of conscienceness.

Teaching them to drink out of the school drinking fountains regularly and often will help keep them hydrated, hydrated and happy. It’s also vital to ensure all the water fountains at the school are maintained to avoid bacteria contamination. The fountains will need to be sanitised regularly to keep them clean.

For more information on the range of fountains from Drinking Water Fountains please contact us on 0845 500 4455 or email us on contact@drinkingwaterfountains.co.uk.

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There’s often stories in the news about how school water fountains are contaminated with germs and the school water pipes are a bacterial minefield so it’s high time schools started cleaning up their act before all the school drinking fountains are taken out from the halls!

The latest news story was from Oregan in the United States where a student was so adamant that the school drinking fountains were more dirty than the school toilets that he conducted a series of tests to prove his theory correct. For his English assignment he collected swabs from four of the school’s water fountains and one of the toilets to test the bacteria content. The tests came back in favour of the toilet water, with all results from the water fountains coming back infused with bacteria.  

His classmates and teachers were shocked at the results and it quickly spurred on the decision makers in the school to replace the old water fountains with sparkling new ones which will be sanitised on a much more regular basis. Now the results of this test would never come back in favour of the toilet water in any of the schools around here, if you keep your water fountains sanitised regularly you will never have this problem.

If you know your school is in dire need of a new drinking fountain please feel free to contact Drinking Water Fountains and they will be more than happy to provide you with bacteria free fountains for your school!

For any information on drinking water fountains or to speak to someone about having a water fountain installed please contact us on contact@drinkingwaterfountains.co.uk or 0845 500 4455.

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A recent study conducted by the Journal of Paediatrics shows that it is possible to reduce children becoming overweight by introducing drinking water fountains throughout the school; handing out water bottles to the children in class and having teachers use lesson plans that included messages about healthy water consumption.  

The study was conducted on 32 elementary schools in socially deprived areas of two German cities. The average age of each child in the study was eight years old. The study separated the schools into two groups, an intervention group and a control group. In the intervention group schools drinking water fountains were installed and teachers presented lessons to the children to encourage water intake. The control group did not receive any water fountains or any lessons on healthy water consumption.

The results showed that the risk of children becoming overweight in the intervention group was reduced by 31% compared with the control group and water consumption increased by 1.1 glasses per day in the intervention group.

The conclusion of the study was, “Our environmental and educational, school-based intervention proved to be effective in the prevention of overweight among children in elementary school, even in a population from socially deprived areas.”

If having more drinking water fountains installed in schools can make this much of a difference to the prevention of obesity, it would make sense to encourage every school to have a sensible number of drinking water fountains installed and to monitor the number of current fountains to ensure there are enough for the number of children who attend the school. It is also important to ensure the current water fountains are maintained and replaced if faulty for health and safety reasons. It’s vital to ensure children are taught about how to stay healthy with regular water intake from an early age so they are equipped with the knowledge for the rest of their lives.

For any information on drinking water fountains or to speak to someone about having a water fountain installed please contact us on contact@drinkingwaterfountains.co.uk or 0845 500 4455.

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Last week we saw a surge of enquiries from primary schools – strangely though, this was not related to the fine weather that has heralded the start of summer. Both  enquiries were related to the water is cool in school initiative which has received wide spread praise from Uk Ofsted inspectors. We thought it may be interesting to lay out in detail some of the needs and considerations that these enquiries brought to light.

The first was from a school in Lincoln who are looking to be able to provide drinking water for all children in each classroom. The Victorian primary school was looking to replace aged sinks in each classroom with a simple wall mounted fountain sink. This simple unit has very small dimensions and simply has a bubbler for children to drink from.

With wall mounted sinks the drinking water comes straight from the mains supply, is passed through a water filter if required and comes out of the bubbler when a simple button us depressed. The basic form of wall mounted sink has no chilling unit and therefore the water comes out of the bubbler at mains water temperature.

The second enquiry was for an outdoor freestanding water fountain for the centre of a childrens playground. This area of a primary school was being redeveloped and the contractor in charge of works was able to make provision for mains-fed water and waste to be taken to a central area under the main asphalt area.

There are a number of fountains built in the UK that are suited to high usage external environments. We were able to source three specific fountains that fitted the remit including one that has been specifically developed for a primary school where the drinking area is at 800mm rather than the more standard 1 metre suited to adults.

We were able to provide the contractor with detailed installation information in advance of the construction detail being completed within a one hour framework.

For more detail on our drinking water solutions for schools and the wider education sector please call us or email contact@drinkingwaterfountains.co.uk.

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Ideal for primary schools. These junior drinking water fountains have a small footprint, and are very rugged and durable. They are available as floor standing or wall-mounted and the compact size makes them  ideal for use with younger children.

The Mini Drinking Water Fountain is available in black as illustrated, and the Mini Plus Drinking Water Fountain is available in stainless steel.

The Mini can dispense up to 18 litres of chilled drinking water an hour, while the Mini Plus can dispense up to 30 litres an hour.

There are two Mini drinking water fountains available – both of which use a Direct Chill coil technology cooling system which reduces running costs and increases efficiency. It only cools the water you use providing customers with a very cost effective solution in comparison with typical industry fountains. The lower capacity fountain can dispense 18 litres of chilled water per hour, the higher capacity model dispenses up to 30 litres per hour.

• Rugged steel construction
• Stainless steel sink top
• Coil on coil refrigerated cooling system
• Low maintenance
• Easy installation
• Environmentally friendly CFC Free Refrigerant R134a
• Compact, stylish, economical
• Optional internal filtration system.
• 12 month warranty
• Optional lever-activated cup filler
• Optional push-button cup filler
• Optional pumped waste system where no immediate drainage is available
• Optional wall mounting bracket for extra sturdiness
• Optional vandal resistant security screws
• Optional Counter Top Basin/Wall Mounted Basin
• Optional Cup Filler/Push Back Glass Filler//Bubbler
• Water supply and drainage required
• Dimensions: Height: 610 mm - Width: 307 mm - Depth: 307 mm

The Mini and Mini Plus Drinking Water Fountains are both available for rental and purchase from us. Drinking Water Fountains provide customers with a full installation service where required. Please use our contact form to make an enquiry.

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