schools opening when it has snowed!

daisiegg

toshkininny wrote: »

No, I just THOUGHT they were the norm, I was guessing. If it isn't normal I feel sorry for the kids.

There have been lockers in every school I have taught in so I must admit I too thought it was the norm, I'm a bit shocked to hear that it isn't....I can't imagine how difficult it must be for pupils at schools where there are none!

daisiegg

gregg1 wrote: »

Same at our local school no lockers, coats have to be lugged around. Result, kids don't wear coats.

Every pupil at my school has a nice, spacious locker, yet they still don't wear coats even when it is -5 outside!

poet123

daisiegg wrote: »

Every pupil at my school has a nice, spacious locker, yet they still don't wear coats even when it is -5 outside!

My son has three coats in his wardrobe.....rarely does he wear one. He does have a locker but in a large school it can be miles from where your last/first lesson is and they are to lazy to walk there and back to get their coats!!

pollypenny

I was just about to post the same thing.

The lockers are usually near the tutor group base. However, last lesson could be on the other side of a large site. Trekking back to the locker might even mean missing the school bus.

Once past Y8 lockers become decidedly ' uncool' anyway.

gregg1

74jax wrote: »

I do know what you're saying, it's just we had a snow drift along our street and she was walking in quite deep snow. I just thought wellies to school would be ok, and change at school. To be fair, the school rules don't state what can be worn to and from school, just during school.

I don't think I'm over ruling schools, however in this bad snow, I think the kids should be allowed to wear wellies to walk to school. But like I say that's just what I 'think'.

Our school is another without lockers, they carry their PE kit etc with them throughout the day. She's in secondary school and can have quite a lots of books, bags, and a coat etc. i didn't realise lockers in a school was the norm.

It is not a case of over ruling the school. You have a very valid reason for asking the school to be more lenient in this case. I think the school should back down on this one and you have every right to be annoyed about the detention.

trevorsminted

The kids at my sons school do not get out at playtimes if not wearing, wellies, hat, scarf, gloves and appropriate blazer and overcoat, they have a double peg (ie. 2 pegs each) and a wire basket cage things for other accessories.

The school has NEVER closed in all weathers!

And as for this "we couldnt get there roads, pavements, streets to icy" i ask one question, how does the snow plough drivers get to work?

georgiesmum

johnnyl wrote: »

rather strangely, everyone else in the country can manage to get into work.

Yes, that puzzles me as well.

gregg1

georgiesmum wrote: »

Yes, that puzzles me as well.

I beg to differ.

My hospital appointment was cancelled because of staff shortages due to the weather ( that is the reason I was given anyway).

coolcait

The weather isn't generally uniformly bad (or good) over the whole country. Or even over a whole county.

None of the schools within a couple of hundred miles of here were closed when this thread first started. Of course, this part of the country didn't have snow at that point.

Our local primary schools rarely close, because we rarely have snow which lies for any length of time, or to any real depth.

However, the secondary schools might close, as they have a larger catchment area, which includes areas which are more likely to get snow.

Travel from those areas involves using country roads - there are no alternatives. Local radio carries police advice not to travel unless absolutely essential.

So, the secondary schools, and some local businesses might be closed as a result.

Other schools, and other businesses might be open in other parts of the country, but the weather and transport conditions there might be very different.

dibuzz

toshkininny wrote: »

That's ridiculous, do they not even have lockers?

No they don't, when my eldest started there they did but they got rid of them a few years ago as most of them were broken.