To feel a school could communicate its closure in this day and age ...

[catsmother]

I spent over an hour traipsing to and from school, up a couple of very steep hills, got frozen and soaked, only to find it was shut.

Okay ..... maybe not that surprising ...... BUT ..... the school's own newsletter last week advised that in the event of bad weather its closure would be advertised on its website (it wasn't), or on local radio (it wasn't, and I was listening carefully to the lists given out every 10 mins since 7), or on the BBC Cambridgeshire website (it wasn't, and still isn't, though lots of other schools in the town are). This letter also said to call the school - which I did repeatedly, & got no reply.

Surely the person who stuck the ever-so-helpful laminated (so a bit of effort made) notice on the gates stating "closed due to bad weather) could have made one phonecall to local radio, OR, even more sensibly, left a message on the school's bloody answerphone ?

The school get funny if you're late, never mind take a day off when you shouldn't which is why I made the effort, and I'd done everything I could to check according to their bloody advice.

If there's still snow on the ground tomorrow I won't bother, and if they are open, but dare complain, I shall turn into a screaming banshee at them about today.

That Parent mail thing looks fab. It'll cost £600 for our school but I'm going to try to persuade the PTA to cough up if the school won't. So many school trips now come back "before 4om" so you never quite know when they'll be there. This would work for that too.

Our school has already announced that it will ne shut tomorrow too due to the continuing forecast for bad weather.

Well, it's still snowing here & more is forecast - if only half the children got in to the schools that are open today, I'd guess they are expecting even fewer tomorrow.

When I was a child and the schools closed due to bad weather, my dad (a policeman) had to go round on his motorbike with a megaphone!

Squirrel, that made me chuckle!

Our secondary school was not advertised either on radio or website as one of the ones closing, we are in a town, the buses are running, so naturally most of the kids turned up- and most of their parents went off to work. Then the school announced that they were closing after all. Dd would have been left stranded had it not been for the great disabled taxi driver who hung around and looked after her.

The infants school next to dh's workplace left it to the lollipop man to tell parents that they had suddenly closed. He was not a happy man.

we got an email in plenty of time...