To think closing schools or making them "optional" during the heatwave is putting pressure on working parents and is just a bit silly?

We just carry on teaching content after half term. Usually finish teaching just after Christmas. Only exams after half term are topic tests. Not sure staff would have time to write (endless) reports and do mock marking.
Can see the logic of moving up though.

I stand corrected 😊. You must have a tight turn around - we usually try and give 2 weeks ! But the tights bit is still weird (unless in Scotland where it's quite chilly I've been told).

Our students move up a year after the June half term and the new year 11s sit mocks. That’s to work out where any gaps are. Then it’s full on mocks in November with the view to finishing the curriculum by February half term.
it means the 7 weeks post half term are not wasted.

Our Y12s are in the middle of mocks. And there was that twatty head writing for the Spectator that said he had to wear uniform in the army when it was hot so the kids should too, so I can imagine they exist.

Katharine Birbalsingh surprised me by saying schools should close when hot because if kids are going to sleep at their desks, what’s the point (while making the point that Michaela is obviously better than that because they prioritise air con in the school budget).

I find this v v hard to believe.

Firstly, weird time to sit mocks as won't be time to mark them and do feedback before end of term. And secondly because if a head teacher is that stupid I hope they'd have been fired by now.

Watching Vanessa on channel 5 +1 A schoolgirl was sent home for refusing to wear tights in a heatwave and ended up missing a mock exam. Like i said the UK is fucked.

It was tolerable in school today at 6.45am when I was dealing with the latest data drop and checking exercise (deadlines are deadlines, after all). The DfE's servers are clearly overheating, as whilst you have 30mins from requesting an authentication code to use it to log in, for the last two days it's been around 45 minutes and today it never arrived at all.

By 9.30am, it was unpleasant and by 11.30am, absolutely horrible.

At the same time, the every 12 minutes bus services have gone to 'has anybody actually seen a bus go by this morning?' and several buses that did run yesterday broke down due to overheating on the hills, meaning passengers had to walk a couple of miles uphill in full sun.

It's not weakness to say that being in a hot, crowded area is dangerous and it's not weakness to take into account the risks of not being able to travel safely due to the heat.

It was mentioned to be written but I don’t think it has been yet, I will be sure to bring it up when I’m next in, thank you!

Make sure you complete the accident book. It needs to be logged for insurance purposes - and just in case you get any silly code back from the Powers that be.

We have named our department Death Valley. Which was funny, until we found out it's actually been hotter than the real one ! Chemicals are now being stored at the fire station near by.

This is so upsetting, disappointing, frustrating and disgraceful to read. I am really sorry that happened to you and you were forced into that situation. I hope you are OK. It’s wrong what’s been going on.

Thank you!

Not feeling dizzy anymore but the staff member that caught me twisted my arm accidentally while trying to protect my head - which absolutely was the priority.

I think the muscle in my shoulder is pulled though it’s very painful to move or lift anything.

@DancingThroughLife02 I hope you're doing ok now. This is frankly dangerous to us all. Take care 🤗

Yeah, you know when I was writing that I hoped they'd apologise, I was actually thinking 'not going to happen'. If your school had any sort of concern for the welfare of their staff or pupils, you wouldn't have been working in that classroom.

Sorry they are so shit, and I hope the union rep gives them hell.

But the magic tape !!!!! Such amazing stuff I'm not sure why it's not used why the WHO against Ebola.

Teachers should really have learned from Covid that nobody really cares about their welfare - as long as childcare is provided it's all good.
And before anyone says well other keyworkers kept working - yes they absolutely did. With PPE. Teachers weren't even permitted to wear masks in primary classrooms.
I couldn't see my elderly in-laws for months on end and I was concerned my own just-turned 1 yo was going to catch it from me.
Especially when we had kids coming in coughing all over the place and saying they had tested positive "but mum sent them in anyway."
This was a big factor (but by no means the only one) in deciding to leave education for me.

How many workplaces have 30 children and up to three adults cooped up in one relatively small room?

They tried to tell me to try and get to lesson afterwards… I will be raising a formal complaint.

Tbf they did backtrack afterwards when HR found out that this was also said to another ill staff member who happened to be the union rep - to “see how you go if you feel better later”.

I think I’m just overheated, unwell and angry right now though so this will be a job for next week.

I'm so sorry you fainted at school, that's horrible. Schools have a duty of care to their staff as well as the pupils and they have failed in that.

I hope you get an apology and they learn from their mistakes.

Many schools are in very old.buildings they don't have air conditioning and some classrooms are like greenhouses. Heat can kill and it does.
It's much easier for someone to keep their child cool at home than it is to keep a classroom of 30 children cool.
Schools have a duty of care to the children they are not there for parents's convenience. If it isn't safe it isn't safe.
I suspect that those people complaining that their child's school has closed will be the first to try and sue the school.if their child for sunstroke or heat exhaustion because they didn't close.

Honestly having just come home after fainting in front of 130 children in 35°C heat im
angry.

Multiple staff members ill by 11am today as schools and LAs just insist on staying open with no consideration to health.

But yes staying open and putting more pressure on healthcare by allowing people to get heatstroke and injuring themselves while fainting is the correct thing to do, as long as teachers aren’t getting a day off 🙄

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 kids finish time is not staff finish time. Do you think there is a magic prep and marking fairy. It's quite sweet the way people think at times.

Well if they have left by 4pm it must be a v strange school. We haven't finished meetings or detentions by then !

Do you suppose that thinking that 'teachers arrive with the kids and leave with the kids' isn't thinking 'teachers work 9-3'? Because I have seen that an awful lot.

Would workplaces not accept that people need the time off if the schools are closed due to red weather warnings? What do people do when their children are ill and have to work?
luckily I work in a school & my school has been closed the last 3 days, but had I not, and my children’s school was closed, I’d of had to ring in sick for those days due to being the ‘lower earner’ of the family.

It's secondary school I was referring to .

And more fool the people that stick around hours after finish tine