Keeping windows open

[WindFlower92]

Anyone know how effective this actually is? I work in a secondary school and of course the pupils are complaining and how cold it is (they're not wrong!) but the headteacher is not allowing them to wear coats. I'm going to have this battle with them all winter - is it worth it? Are there any studies showing that having all windows and doors open stops the spread in a crowded room with no masks?

GingerandTilly
I have read this article - to credit an ordinary window with sophisticated hinge technology seems odd to me, but I never payed much attention to English windows. They do work differently?

Well exactly that it seems @Buckwheat80! I'll raise it again, and suggest that all teachers should be having windows open, and not just me!

I think Head teachers/board of Governors are going to have to rethink about coats/gloves in classrooms.

I have just sent an Email to my children school about this and the policy around lunchtime with this heavy rain we have had.

Schools are going too have a lot children missing with colds due to getting soaked and then having to sit in wet clothes the rest of the day.

I have no issue with children being outside in the cold, light rain but common sense should be able to work out when the weather really bad that children should not be outside.

Surely the parents will complain en masse

@CKBJ

Definitely windows open but isn’t there a minimum temperature to work in?16c I believe. We may not be there yet but it won’t be long. Banning coats is absurd!

We’ve got a max of 11 and 12 next week. Not all of the Uk has the same temperature.

The minions looks a bit fluffy based on these regs and no doubt they can just shrug and ignore them because, you know, Covid. As they kind of should.

neu.org.uk/advice/cold-weather-and-classroom-temperature-england

@Prokupatuscrakedatus

GingerandTilly I have read this article - to credit an ordinary window with sophisticated hinge technology seems odd to me, but I never payed much attention to English windows. They do work differently?

Yes. Generally one set of hinges that generally allows a window to opened outwards in one direction.