How they do manage closures for weather?
Ours only closes for high wind (fair enough) but I'm getting a bit fed up with how long they're leaving it before deciding to close?
In the last few weeks we had a closure half way through the day due to a tree coming down (fair enough), but then had another full day of closure a few days later as a (very young, small) tree had come down overnight. The kind of tree one person could move. I thought this was taking the piss a bit, as there was no wind by the morning so surely they could have dealt with the fallen tree and opened as normal (even if maybe a bit later?)
Anyway, move on to last week. Obviously veeeerry high winds forecast, we were in a red warning area on Friday. This was forecast all week. Earlier in the week I asked if it would be closed, they said no hopefully not. Even up until Thursday night they posted saying they would still be open. They didn't announce closure until half an hour before school was due to start. Loads of other (indoor!) schools and nurseries had decided to close Thursday so I think leaving it that late was really not on...
I had already decided not to send the children on Friday anyway but they didn't know this. We would have already been in the car at the time they contacted me.
Now we have a yellow warning for wind for tomorrow, it's already getting windy and we've heard nothing about tomorrow yet. If they wait until half an hour before again tomorrow, I'm going to be a bit annoyed.
On hugely unpredictable days I know it can't be helped, but we work in a weather dependent field and manage to organise ourselves around the weather reports the majority of the time. Times like this when there are weather warnings especially, they should be making a decision and letting parents know fairly early on, surely?
The daily fees are not cheap at all and there's no reimbursement for weather closures so it's not like they're trying to avoid having to refund us.
Just wondering how much notice is reasonable to expect really in cases like this last week where there have been plenty of weather warnings in advance.