The schools have signed up to an initiative backed by Cancer Research UK, aimed at protecting vulnerable young skin from harmful rays.
The local authority has given its blessing.
It's a policy that the mother of eight-year-old Joseph Marshall must regard with some envy. She sent him to his Bristol primary school with a bottle of factor 60 sun block to protect his pale, freckly skin from sunburn. Staff promptly confiscated it.
Head teacher Norma Watson said pupils were not allowed medication at school because of the risk to other children. She said teachers encouraged them to wear long-sleeved clothing and hats instead. Bristol council supports the head's policy.
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