The school is on fire!!

[schoolonfire]

Changed name as v outing, but dds high school has been on fire since 4.30 and is still spreading.

We’ve had a text to say the school will be shut tomorrow (obviously) but it’s looks so bad I think they’re going to lose the school altogether.

Has anyone any experience of what will happen to the students in this awful scenario? Dd has just started first year (Scotland). Just really pray nobody was hurt, so awful, can actually see the flames for miles.

A school local to us burnt to the ground a while ago. I seem to remember that fairly quickly prefabs were set up in the field and children returned to school.

Depends on how big the fire is and how much damage there is.

Our school flooded. The children had to be schooled in various other locations for a few weeks while the school was cleaned, dried and redecorated. They only missed 1 day of school on that very first day while contingency plans were put in place. Later in the day we got emails to explain where each year group should be taken the next day.

Local school had to close suddenly - not for fire but serious safety concerns with the building which had to be investigated and resolved. It happened about a week before the Easter holidays which started early for that reason. It took a few weeks but from then the children were bused to two different locations (depending on age) for approx 6 months. I think local authorities sometimes have classroom facilitates that can be used in emergencies.

Was a bit of a nightmare though.

I hope no one is hurt and the damage isn’t too bad.

A primary school in the next town along was closed for a whole school year as there was something quite structurally wrong with it (although I can’t remember what). They sent whole classes to other local schools and they were educated there in their normal classes for the year. I think the dc all met outside their school and were then bussed to the new school each day with their teachers to limit the inconvenience to families with more than one child.
Obviously wouldn’t work for a secondary school where dc are in different sets and have different exam options though. What a nightmare for the staff to be dealing with.

It looks really bad tbh, I could attach a photo but wouldn’t want to upset anyone. It started in one area and thought it was contained but looks like the whole school is up now.
I wonder if they’ll send pupils to other schools then, think that seems most likely. For those who had dc that had to move, were they kept in year groups or classes, or registration groups?

Local primary burnt down and yield were taken in by other primaries and used extra rooms in my secondary school.

I’m assuming the building was empty with it being a Sunday so no one was there. The fire could take hold before anyone noticed!

Oh gosh @schoolonfire.
I know where you are talking about, saw it on FB earlier, I was hoping they had contained, how awful.
I guess there will be some sort of emergency contingency plans in place for this sort of thing but no idea.
Just hope everyone is safe.

I’m just wondering if it was arson, won’t know any details yet, still blazing and getting worse, all over news.
Our schools here are overcrowded as it is, they’ve just had meetings for building a new school to deal with the capacity issue.

Gosh, it loooks awful in the on-line pictures. I too hope no one has been hurt.

One of our local primaries burnt down, luckily a school 15miles away up the road had shut a few months earlier (new school had been built) so the school temporarily decamped to that school until prefab could be put up. The local community and other schools really pulled together. Donated books, stationary, supplies etc for the school so the kids didn't miss out

We had a flood when I was teaching and one school was washed away. The students and teacher were bused as a class to a nearby school and the school went into double session. Flood Primary had classes in the building from 7 to 11 and then had lunch and were bused out. Dry Elementary had lunch first at noon and then classes from 1 - 5 and then sent home. This lasted about 6 months, until the flooded school was ready for occupancy. The parents complained about the change in hours, but it worked.

Aw good to hear community spirit in pp, I hope everyone pulls together here. It’s unreal the amount of people that have gone to watch though, it’s making me so nervous.

Didn’t want to name the school on here but probably really obvious, I can actually see it from my windows now too, jeezo.

Easily found on BBC.
Not clear how many site buildings affected.
Library burned down in Norwich when I lived there. That was huge event.

I saw this, total disaster. Often it does seem to be arson. My DS has just started S1 too, I hope yours is ok.

Oh no, I really feel for you. This happened to my DD when she was in year 8 - large comprehensive almost totally gutted. They did their utmost to keep the school together- it was just before the Easter holidays so they prioritised year 10 and 11.

DD’s year were off school for about a month - the teachers provided them with work and the local library and youth club opened up to them so they had somewhere to go if they needed.

They got hold of a huge portable office building which was fitted out - I think it came from an airport and that serviced them until it was rebuilt. Too late for DD sadly but my DS went to a brand new, state of the art school.

Think dd is worried about being split up from her friends, most of whom are glad of the day off tomorrow but don’t think 11/12 year olds are truly grasping the seriousness of it.

There’s more up to date videos on Facebook, firefighters are working so hard.

This happened to my neice's school a couple of years ago. They missed a couple of days school and then were taught in temporary classrooms . It was sorted impressively swiftly! (Disappointingly fast for a teenage girl I recall !)

Happened at the Primary my nephew went to: no school at all for about a month, then eventually parents kicked up a fuss so mornings or afternoons in a church hall (only for those whose parents were absolutely desperate)- I think less than 50 kids out of a 2 form entry primary school. That was for about half a term . Eventually they got portakabins in the school grounds, but there was about a term with no school for most of the kids.
This was about 15 years ago, I suspect it would be better dealt with these days.

Wow it seems this has happened to quite a few schools. I can imagine it being dealt with quite quickly now yes so kids don’t miss out, luckily (wrong word to use sorry) it’s this time of year and not near exam time.
Thanks for everyone responding, seems like they will have contingency plans in place.

It happened to a Dundee school about a year ago, it was incredibly disruptive, they were placed In various schools across the city and didn't get back in for 3 months!

Hopefully once the damage is assessed in daylight there is some better news.

Local council will have contingency plans including available spaces on radar to house pupils and temp classrooms.

My primary school had a fire and we were all sent to different primary schools in the area until it had been repaired.
It took a while as when the fire brigade came the engine couldn’t get through the school gates as they were too small so part of the fence/wall had to be removed. We were all outside scared and crying as we could see flames coming out the school .
They had to repair the wall after Plus there was only 2 ways in/out the school so they had to do major building work to put fire doors out of every classroom after the fire as the building was deemed unsafe !

My school burnt to the ground in 2000, think I was just 8 and a half or so . We had two weeks off then had to attend achoool in three different groups - older years sent 25 miles away to a disused rural school in the middle of fields .. one class taught in mason hall, nursery and P1 taught in even older disused school .

It did have an effect in the long run but more because we were so rural anyway and such a small school - and computers weren’t used so much , so absolutely everything was lost including all paperwork, registers, reports etc . There was a huge knock on effect with money too - several staff let go including teachers . And a lot of children that were swiftly moved to private education ... I can’t remember how they sorted that side of things and some of that probably wouldn’t be an issue now to be honest . We didn’t have PE lessons really and school dinners were a challenge , had to be delivered from 12 miles away (so pretty awful!)?

Within a year junior years were taught in portacabins on the playground whilst new school was being built ... was three and half years total before school was totally sorted .

Our secondary school was set on fire, arson by a teenage boy, lost most of the school, we were put in "temporary" porta cabins, I say temporary as I started in year 8 and we done our GCSEs in them school was fully rebuilt by the time we left