Is your school open tomorrow?

[PotatoHammock]

How many people have already heard that their school is shut tomorrow? It never occurred to me that this might be a thing, but apparently several schools in our area have already emailed parents. Surely this is an all or none scenario, not up to each head teacher's discretion? But also, surely they'd have to tell us by 8pm if school wasn't open in the morning?

(I'm a teacher and a parent, and I've not heard from either school)

Nice try.🤣

The local carnival has been cancelled this Saturday out of respect for the Queen. All money raised would have been going to local charities.

As a, racing family I would have thought she'd probably want it to go ahead.
I don't agree with this jumping on the band wagon to show respect publicly. Going about your business as normal doesn't mean you are disrespectful. Someone I don't know has sadly died, I am sad for that but my life goes on as normal as it will for many.

Listening to the radio a few mins ago that explicitly said schools are open during the period of mourning so unless it’s an indie, or there is a specific event like no hot water etc. schools cannot just close without guidance from the DfE via their area authority.

Having just come back from a children’s activity when the children heard this as it was announced, I would say it’s incredibly important they are at school tomorrow until they make sense of all this and prepare for the funeral. I was a little surprised at how upset some of them were, comments like we have a new PM and now the queen has died + this other thing in their life. What’s gonna happen next type comments? It’s been a lot of change for children in recent years. Day off for funeral maybe, the rest of the time they need to be IN.

How old is he? Kind of cute at 7, not so much at 27 🤣

We're open tomorrow. We're holding 2 minutes silence but otherwise it's a normal day.

We have had it on Sm pic of secondary school closing tomorrow. Presumably by pupils

Well I’ve just received an email from my head about the consultation on pay awards and no mention at all of the Queen. So I’m assuming it hasn’t crossed his mind to close!

DD tried to convince me that they would have 2 weeks off.

We got an email at 8.30pm, reasurring us that school is open as normal. I wouldn't expect anything else.

Funeral - maybe, it depends. I would hope it's either a full BH or just a normal day.

Surely schools will stay open tomorrow?
Though I expect they may shut on the day of her funeral

DfE are saying schools should be open, rightly so

Well I have inadvertently become the pariah of the class WhatsApp. It seems the mums on there are champing at the bit for the school to be closed.
I have a "why would it be??" Type reply and am now being bombarded with pictures.
It's all very odd.
I'm actually sadder than I thought about the Queen passing but don't see why schools need to close.

abovedecknotbelow schools sent pupils home when the King's death was announced

Football matches tomorrow are postponed.

We are open as usual (indie prep school.)
We're doing a special little assembly in celebration of HMQ's life&reign with age appropriate Q&A afterwards.

We had an email saying open as normal, although you can get there early to join in a group prayer for the Royal family (faith school).

I would have thought a mention in assembly or a minute silence is more likely. Would they close on the day of the funeral? I don't think I can take much more time off work 😥

@Rainbowcat99

Given how much children have missed school the last 2 years and there is no guarantee they’ll have teaching provision for 5 days over the winter since schools can’t pay for either heating or teachers, maybe just tell em to send their kid in whilst they can and watch the tumbleweed.

My yr 11 will be gutted, absolutely gutted, that they are in school tomorrow. They'd convinced themselves that they got a week off, but would have been happy with a day.

I can predict tomorrow:(accusatory)"miss, how come we're in school today?"
"I don't know. Liz Truss hasn't phoned me yet. Poems out "
" Yeah, but we shouldn't be in, should we? I can't do my lesson today. I'm too upset. Can I go to the safe room?"

X every lesson tomorrow.

Why would they close? How bizarre.

A lot of reporting that it will be Monday 19th

The funeral that is.

CE of my council marking the Queens death respectfully but reminding us that we are much needed to deliver vital public services. ( including schools)

Public council meetings will not be held during the 10 days of mourning but all other services to continue.
Further information to follow regarding the funeral.

I have heard nothing from the school.

However, I would be surprised if they did close. They seem to only reluctantly close if they are told that they have to. They take attendance extremely seriously.