Anyone else's school shutting this week?

[HiZev]

We just had an email saying they're shutting at lunchtime on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday because of the heat. Seems fairly sensible to me.

We're in a red area. One child has a trip into the city and the other a coach trip to a theme park. All going ahead. Forecast has gone down from 37 to 33 here tomorrow so not as worried as I was.

We’re in south wales and had an email a couple of hours ago to say all schools in our area are closing. DS school is fairly newly built so would expect it to have aircon. Other local school is 100+ years old and will be HOT inside (I went there, I know!) so would expect it to close.

PE kits and get on with it for us. 27-30 degrees supposedly for us in the Northwest. I work in a school and we are staying open. It was baking today with little to no air and only a fan for company. I’d rather be at home in the garden in this weather and not cooped up at work. Love the heat and blue skies.

We’re SE and it’s 35

school remains open for those who need it and those who dont can have a day off

I’m Northumberland too but it got up to 32 today. My kids’ secondary school have relaxed uniform and are allowing PE tops which are that cooler sport material and shorts. Sixth form aren’t usually allowed shorts (but are allowed own clothes including jeans) and have been told they can wear shorts (tailored preferred but I reckon most will wear whatever they have).

SE, children at different schools. The primary school has said home clothes and is offering optional collection at 1, the secondary has said PE kit and we can keep them off, collect at 1 or attend usual hours.

West Mids , our secondary school was insistent that measures were in place and school open with the red warning of 37 tomoz and Thursday but we’ve just had an email it’s now closed the next two days as there’s no air con at school and the temperatures were over 35 in classrooms today . I’m glad as my daughter has disabilities and really struggles with temperature regulation and always has to be reminded to drink . I’m a full time carer for her at home so don’t have to worry about work luckily .

Ours have closed from today. Due to be 38 tomorrow

Parental leave.
Luckily it doesn't affect me now as I work when I want so to speak ( job and done ) so I could do it at midnight if I chose, and for a relative so thankfully I don't have that issue this week with dcs school closing

But when my older ones were small and school closed for snow on 3 occasions, broken heating. Water pipe bursting , strikes . I simply told work I couldn't come in. Showed them the letters / emails from school. Unfortunately there was nothing I could do. I was a lone parent, Their dad lived miles away. My parents worked FT. So it meant I had no childcare.
My old manager didn't like it , but didn't have much choice wasn't going to leave young kids at home.
I remember he tried to do a disciplinary because of it. But he got no where with it.

I've heard of a couple of schools making a late decision like this here. I wonder why? Was today shit enough that they realised that they were being stupid? Yesterday was shit too so they should already have had some idea.

I walked through the school to a meeting at lunchtime and it was hideous but they were insistent it would be ok when hotter next two days . Feel sorry for all those parents trying to sort childcare at the last minute .
My elder daughter at college has air con in every classroom and she complained it was too cold !

That's ridiculous

I think very few people realise that even new school buildings are rarely air-conditioned.

Keep him off. Im probably going to get into trouble with my school but im keeping mine off. It's 2am amd im awake. My kids are restless. They are autistic also. I thought red warning meant danger to life or serious illness. Im not risking that for a maths lesson or two. Or schools answer is water play for the little ones and finger foods at lunch. No, thats to make it easier on the kitchen not the kids.

I work in a school kitchen and thats not clossing at all even on teacher training day we have to go in to feed the teachers.

No, we are S Wales and open! Class was miserable yesterday, 30 of us in a sweat box, windows that open 2 inches and no more, broken blinds, no fans, kids feeling ill, kids totally disregulated, only allowed outside for 10 minutes max not one minute more. Temperature in class was 35 degrees. Not one member of SLT came around to check the temperatures of the classes or to see if the kids were okay but they were in their offices with a fan so that’s okay 😬 Today will be fun!

Fortunately the max temps across the country are forecast now to be 3-6 degrees lower than expected.

We are in red alert area but no schools closing that I know of. It will be oppressive but hopefully not too bad,

I think it’s reasonable to close lunchtime or allow people to be off who want to… but I’ve heard a couple of schools closing altogether which hasn’t gone down hugely well.

Thats harsh. There must be some law to help workers in the heat

Our school messaged at 8 pm last night, to say we can pick them up from 1.45 if we want to for the next two days.

The temperature at 1.45 is 1 degree less than at 3pm...

Fortunately the max temps across the country are forecast now to be 3-6 degrees lower than expected.

The media has massively hyped up the 40 degree heat dome and spun everyone into a panic. They saw the figures for France – which really is at 40 degrees – and applied it here. Either that or the Met Office has got it spectacularly wrong again and mis-forecast the nation into hysteria. And if the storms lowered the temp, why didn't the Met Office know they were coming?

It's really bloody hot still, but not nation-grind-to-a-halt hot.

We are very lucky, son's school is in an old office block so has air conditioning, and a huge forest area where the school have said they will be holding break times so they're sheltered. I have to go into the office once a week and we don't have air-conditioning. It is stifling with 8 of us in there. Can't imagine what schools will be like. Equally I feel that we need to start getting used to this and finding ways to keep schools open in the coming years.

The classroom will likely be hotter than at 11am though.

That really is too late to be sending out those messages to parents, they can’t say they weren’t aware of a rapidly developing situation or anything like that.

But a lot of classrooms start much hotter than outside first thing in the morning and get hotter and hotter as the day goes on. The point where learning stops is well before lunchtime but if they said pickup before lunch people would be wondering why they were bothering sending their kids in at all.

Our school said they still intend to go ahead with sports day tomorrow. We are in the red zone. I am aghast at their stupidity tbh. They recommend hats, sunscreen and lots of water.

It's an independent school and if they don't change their mind I am not sending DS2 in. DS1 is post GCSEs so at home thankfully.

Do you not understand that there is a danger to life, not just for vulnerable people in this country because, unlike people living in hot countries, we haven't had time to acclimatise to the sudden extreme rise in temperature.

Quoting from the red heat health warning currently on my phone:
'Population-wide adverse health effects experienced, not limited to those most vulnerable to extreme heat'.

It's not hysteria on MN. It's advice put out as a health warning to a whole country dealing with a very unusual weather situation.