maximum temperature in classroom?

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does anyone know what this is? or where i can get some guide as to legal issues with hot classrooms?

Sadly I suspect there is only min tempertures - Uk is not geared up to hot weather!

Minimum temp is I think 18 degrees, there is no max temp as far as I know.

i found a website thqat says who reccomends a working temp of 24 degrees to be comfortable. thats it.
went to a governors meeting where they agreed that the school needed a hot weather policy as well as a cold weather one. so trying to do some homework for it.
one of the teachers there said she was in a classroom today that was 40 degrees.

Try this

www.lhc.org.uk/members/pubs/factsht/47fact.htm

Don't know how to do links, but you can cut and paste it in. It covers guidelines for workplaces and cites the 24 degree temp as a recommendation. Since a teacher works in the classroom then it is a workplace. 40 degrees is not a reasonable temperature to work in, for an adult or especially a child!!

Yes.legally there is a minimum temp but not a maximum limit - only guidelines

If it helps, a precedent has been set in Basinstoke by one of the secondary schools that sent its pupils home at 11.40 on Tuesday and will review the situation daily regarding the weather (it hit 38 C/100 F in some classrooms)

thank you all you lovely people
housemum do you have a name for the school?

nqstm, that fact sheet is wonderful. am printing it off as i speak and will get a copy to people asap

I know that when I was teaching last year there was no maximum limit, only guidelines - but these are not binding. My computer room was awful. the temperature was unbelievable - the technicians recorded it daily and it was always high 30s as a minimum once yu hit the summer. Smmall room, 30 computers, 2 printers and 2 small windows that couple only be opened a fraction due to bars outside the window to stop being breaking in. It was unbearable. When I complained I got given a fan - wow! That just wafted the hot air about. By mid day I was in fit state to work, and the afternoon pupils did much less wrork that the 9 o'clock class - because they couldn't concentrate in the heat.

There isn't a maximum tempreture. We found this out the other day when we phoned the head office to ask about it as we thought the Nusery was getting to hot for the children. Tjhe inside tempreture was 30.

Stitch, it's Brighton Hill Community College (if you look at basingstokegazette.co.uk it's on the front of the local paper - not sure how the paper's website works but I think that the main stories go on there a couple of days after the paper has come out, so you could always copy the article if you want to show it to your school)

schools aren't covered by the workers & factories act. there is no legal min or max temp, it's up to governors & unions in each school to come to an agreement. in 10 years i have never been sent home for too hot or too cold rooms - even in jan with no heating, and old windows which didn't shut properly. i have bought my own fan, and just put up with direct sunlight in my room all day - usually hits 30 degrees before 9 am!

DS's secondary school is allowing boys to wear shirts with no ties or blazer during the hot spell.

I grew up in South Africa and, in the summer, if the temp was 28C or above by 10.30 am, we were automatically sent home!

Try working in Food Tech in the height of the summer with 20 cookers on the go ! We have been "promised" aircon but apparently the money is now going to be used for the development of a desperately-needed ( NOT )all-weather sports pitch. Fabulous.

AS the others say, no legal maximum. Sometimes as a teacher you can 'do' things. When the temperature in my lab hit 30 deg a few years ago (and was still rising) I 'phoned the school manager and said either he found me a cooler room or I was taking the class outside....
out we went 5 mins later and had a revised lesson on the grass under the trees.

This thread sarted ln July last year.
It's February
It's freezing.
AIBU in being slightly peed of for being reminded of warm sunny times?

I don't think that there is a maximum legal temp in the UK