Loud Music from school, what are the rules?

p00hsticks

Norman_Castle said:

Presumably "wet play" is for young children.

I'm pretty sure that by 'wet play' the OP means that the children have to stay inside over their lunch hour because the weather is bad rather than play outside. 

TELLIT01

How far from the school is your house? 

neilmcl

You buy a house near a school then of course it's going to be noisy at lunch and break times, again I don't think this would constitute a public nuisance. 

Norman_Castle

neilmcl said:

You buy a house near a school then of course it's going to be noisy at lunch and break times, again I don't think this would constitute a public nuisance. 

Schools are noisy but that doesn't excuse adding amplified music outside. If a business or other organisation did this regularly they would be subject to restrictions. A school is no different.

Davesnave

neilmcl said:

You buy a house near a school then of course it's going to be noisy at lunch and break times, again I don't think this would constitute a public nuisance. 

Whether the school plays music or not, lunch time in the playground is bound to be noisy. It's the nature of the beast and any complaint will be seen in this context.

I live in the country a mile from the local school and I can hear the playground noise if the wind is in the right quarter. I can also hear the (louder) church bells when those are rung. No doubt those living in the town hear these things much more, but they don't have the huge tractors we experience that fire up at 5am, or the noisy cattle locked in barns over the winter.

At the first school I visited as a trainee teacher in 1970, the head held a disco for the children most lunch hours, outdoors rather than in if the weather allowed. There was also volleyball in a different part of the playground area. He felt these activities gave the longer break times more focus, so there would be fewer bored children rushing about screaming and similar purposeless activities. Maybe this is a reincarnation of that idea. In any event, it's a temporary noise much like the others I've mentioned.

Jackmydad

Davesnave said:

I live in the country a mile from the local school and I can hear the playground noise if the wind is in the right quarter. I can also hear the (louder) church bells when those are rung. No doubt those living in the town hear these things much more, but they don't have the huge tractors we experience that fire up at 5am, or the noisy cattle locked in barns over the winter.

Ah the silence of the rural idyll!
Or rather not!
Like you we're about a mile from the village school, and that can be heard clearly at times.
Music sometimes if people have parties and so on.
Noise from the nearby caravan site
Building noise from the people about a quarter of a mile away who seemingly never stop building work.
Tractors, the song of  the de-stoning thing they occasionally use here is wonderful to hear at 6 am on a Spring morning. 
And that's if the local band of feral corvids aren't drowning it all out!

The point being that there is noise of some sort everywhere. If it's for a limited time it's not too bad IMHO.    

Davesnave

Jackmydad said:

The point being that there is noise of some sort everywhere. If it's for a limited time it's not too bad IMHO.    

Ah yes, I forgot the de-stoner. Bit of a misnomer, because they seem to use it every year and find more stones! It can go all day sometimes. The tractors that pull this stuff also sound more like aircraft. However, I recognise my own traditional methods of production aren't going to put cheap food on anyone's plate.

The rookery I couldn't stand at any price, though many of the posh houses in the village are beside it. I can't afford that problem.

An hour a day would indeed  be fine if we could fill it with the machinery, the barking dogs, the smell of the manure or silage and the dust from the threshing. I'd even allow the occasional rook.

Jackmydad

  
It's a bit different from where I lived in the Black Country when I was a kid.
We lived by the cut, and more or less between a fairly large shunting yard and the local gasworks, alongside various other industries. It used to be quiet in the evenings though, with just the "scroink, clank" of the gasworks, and the occasional whistle of the locos. 
I find those sort of sounds quite nostalgic now. 

To come back on topic a bit, anything can drive you mad if you let it.
If it's not a really intense racket all the time though, the best thing is to try and ignore it.
Easily said of course.

GDB2222

Ear defenders- sorry that they hurt your head. Maybe try different ones? I wear them when doing noisy DIY, and they are comfortable enough for me. 

You can also get wax earplugs very cheaply. 

You can’t expect to completely silence all noise with them, but they certainly should reduce the noise drastically. You just need to try different solutions until you find one that works for you.

Should you have to take such measures in your own house? We could have a lengthy discussion about that, but in the meantime you are the one who is suffering, and the council are not going to sort this out for you. Nor will the school, apparently. Shift workers often wear earplugs when they sleep in the daytime, so the school noise really need not stop your son becoming a police officer. 

WeAreGhosts

If you don't want to/can't wear the standard earplugs or headphones then I recommend these: https://www.earpeace.co.uk/products/earplugs?variant=698080264201
They cut out background noise but you can still hear conversations. They might deaden the music a bit and are more comfortable and unobtrusive to wear.