School Dinner Times,

become a hot potato for Health & Safety,

head teacher Iain Gilmour ordered children at lunch time to whisper, as anything louder than that broke strict Health & Safety rules, Iain complained that the children’s cacophonous chatting could give staff migraines, but parents say the move was overly strict and prevented pupils at Isambard Brunel Junior School from relaxing between lessons, but Iain countered with the statement, 'in our lunch hall we had 110 children shouting, it was breaking Health & Safety laws in terms of decibels', but later he relented, 'we said to them “please talk quietly, and if you can’t talk quietly then don’t talk at all”, Health and Safety laws, quietly working for you!