Are your children going to school today?

No she is not

But that's only because they closed the school!

It's 29 degrees here today at it's hottest - and that's towards the end of the school day

I don't agree with it closing

Yes... at secondary school.

Uniform rules relaxed.
School ensuring water bottles are refilled with water breaks.
Moving classes to the cooler classrooms.

I don't have air conditioning at home, and feel the school are doing all they can in these circumstances.

We are in West Kent and all the schools in our town seem to be open as usual with no option to keep at home. A lot of the kids were missing yesterday though.

Schools open as usual here, though it's already 28 degrees and baking hot.

Yes, both mine are in school, secondary and primary.

I did keep my secondary one home yesterday, as she got a detention the day before waiting in the queue to fill up her water bottle and I was like bugger that! None of her friends went in, so I kept her home on the condition she was not allowed outside and she had to do next week’s homework.

My primary one had a voluntary early dismissal at 1:30pm. I collected him only because I felt sad thinking of all his friends going home and him being left behind. I don’t work so there’s no reason why I couldn’t.

I am collecting him at 1:30pm again today, but that’s really only because I need to be somewhere in the afternoon and it’s easier to get him early than plan my appointment around normal home time. It’s windy and cooler here today anyway.

Ours has been closed yesterday and today and they let us collect early on Tuesday. We're right in the record breaking red zone though.

Yup both gone. One who struggles with the heat due to medical issues, the school agreed to put ice in his water bottle.

Both in one definitely finishing early or probably finishing early we shall see

My primary teacher OH was rung out when he got home yesterday. Lots of the kids were picked at lunchtime but around seven were there until the end of the day, so he had to stay too. Classroom was pushing 40 degrees and the kids were just a floppy mess. Even though he kept urging them to drink more water, they were too hot and miserable to listen to sense. He stuck a film on in the end, but a couple fell asleep at their desks and for a horrible moment he thought they'd passed out. The stress of trying to keep them safe in intolerable conditions is horrible for the staff. Couldn't take them outside because there's barely any shade in the playground.

Mine are home but I've no choice, the school is closed. It's 35°C here today.

Yes, last day today and it’s only a half day.

DS in Y9 went in yesterday. The only concession school have made is no blazers but still in shirts & ties. He was miserable and said half the school weren’t there, we have said he can miss today. If they’d said PE kits and given them extra water breaks we would have sent him

We were at 34 yesterday and day before, 32 today and 35 tomorrow.

DD is going in but we've been given the option to collect at 1.30pm today and tomorrow so will be very happy to do that and get her home to cool down.

Both mine are going in. One school is letting the pupils wear their PE kits and the other is fully air conditioned.

Your schools are built to keep heat OUT though. Uk ones to keep heat IN

OMG too funny indeed 🙄

Yes that’s true about all the bodies, we have some glass roofing going on in our school too which I suspect makes things much worse!

Dgs going in . Optional at his school

School closed lunchtime Tuesday. Reopening tomorrow as far as we know now but given the forecast is only 1 degree lower then today I wouldn't be surprised to get a message later saying closed till Monday

Oh and children weren’t fit to learn anything!

Schools open here as usual. High school has relaxed the dress code. It’s only to be 29 here though so really not hot enough to be closing or finishing early!

I’ma teacher and yesterday my classroom was awful. You need to bear in mind the heat generally, then add 33 other bodies to the really tiny room that we have (with a low ceiling). That’s why schools are so much hotter than other buildings. Ours was built in the 70s so obv no air conditioning.

Children’s schools both closed. Glad they are as well hearing about so many kids suffering yesterday.

Yes they went in, I haven't considered keeping the dcs off school and I don't think I would unless the school actually closed. I don't work but I take their education seriously and they only miss school when very ill.
We're in London where it's been very hot although today feels cooler than yesterday and the forecast today is just 32 degrees which isn't as bad as we were expecting (it was predicting 39 earlier in the week).

Yes all external exams finished last week. Lots of year 10 mocks this week - at mine’s school they have moved afternoon ones to morning and are letting them go straight home after (rest of school closing at 12)

One school is shut and one is open which is faintly maddening. The younger one is much better off at school, they have fans and A/C units, they're in PE kit and sandals and have masses of water breaks. I am now stuck WFH in my over 30 degree house with his hot grumpy brother instead of in the office air con which I could have done without!