Snow Day

[thebookeatinggirl]

By mid morning the decision was made to close school, and it'll be shut tomorrow too. My first 'snow day' in over 10 years (I live somewhere that rarely sees snow)!

Don't think the old 'Go to your nearest school and help there' rule is ever now applied because of DRB checks and the like. Does anyone remember having to do that?

I don't remember the 'go to your nearest school' thing, however, I teach in a school that is renowned locally for staying open but we had to close today as it was so bad!

I had almost got to the school - I was less than half a mile away when the message came through to say we were closed so just had to turn around and go back

Plan at the moment is we will be open tomorrow.

When I first started teaching, a very long time ago, schools tended to stay open even if it snowed, and if you couldn't get to your own school because of being snowed in/long journey etc you were expected to walk to your local school and present yourself ready to help. Seems a bizarre concept now. Never happened to me as I always lived very near to my own school but I had friends who did it.

Hooray! We had a snow day and all schools round me are closed anyway. I remember rumours about 'walk to your nearest and teach there' but I've always been rural and that was never going to happen. I have quite a drive - and I'm not desperate to go in tomorrow, frankly. Worried about bad roads and drifting snow. Waiting to see if they are open tomorrow. Lots of schools already announced they will not be but ours hasn't...

I’ve been teaching for 20 years and the ‘go to your local school’ was never been mentioned.

We had a snow day today but waiting to here tomorrow. My DC’s school has already announced it’s closed tomorrow. We’ve had no more snow but the compacted ice is probably even more dangerous!

My school was open until 3 today and we're all expected in tomorrow. My car isn't safe to drive in this and public transport adds an hour to my journey once I've arranged emergency child care for two children at different schools which will probably close early. Gosh, this is fun!

I started teaching in 1976 and I remember having to go to the local school when it snowed. My own children were not impressed.

We were very grateful to have a staff member who could play the piano and had 493 choruses of “ He’s got the whole world in his hands” while we waited for more staff. All the children turned up.

Still bad where I am. My poor dad is a HGV driver and he left home at 4am this morning to work. He's had a long, difficult day and is now on the motorway home but it's snowing really hard and the traffic is crawling hoping it's not too much longer for him - especially since he has another early start tomorrow!

Snow is bad and drifting on the lane I live on which is steep and narrow. I have put my car at the bottom - half a mile away - so will have to walk to it in the morning before braving the drive in. It's a 4x4 and has snow tyres but I still find it difficult driving in snow - I feel sorry for those in cars that struggle

No news from school so we have to assume we are open tomorrow until we hear otherwise. I really hope I don't set off treking again and then find we are closing but I appreciate it's difficult for the head to make the decision.

Go to your local school (which is shut to pupils ) is definitely still the rule in some of Scotland!

I can remember the "Go to your nearest school" being mentioned years ago but nobody seems to do that now. My nearest school is the one I teach in anyway.

What's getting my goat is the teacher bashing along the lines of "Teachers should be docked a day's pay for not bothering to come into work on a snow day etc etc"

Definitely used to be the rule when all the schools were local authority schools -with the increase in academies there would be fights about who was paying who!

When I started at my last school I had to fill out a bad weather form. It included things like how far away from the school I lived (a long way), whether I lived in an urban area (nope, super rural), Whether I had experience driving in snow (I didn't at the time), and whether I had somewhere near to school I could stay (also a no!). I really hoped for snow that winter because I'd be the first member of staff that got to go home It did also ask what my nearest school was and whether I could get there if it snowed (theoretically yes on foot, but I was pregnant) And that I would have to go there if I couldn't get to my school. That was only 4 years ago!

I've had nothing of the sort at my current school, but we are an academy which might be why? I'm DBS checked at DSs school as I'm a govener so theoretically I could go there and teach, but as it's walking distance from my house and the majority of staff and students have to drive out here from the town centre Id probably be the only one there!

My school is closed today - thankfully they decided before I set off!

Weather is absolutely awful here today - loads of snow, still snowing and then gusts of wind blowing it around causing drifts!

We’re in London. Open yesterday, loads of others closed. Today, all others closed-except us........ bitter!

There were always older staff who told us we had to go to our nearest school on a snow day. But there has never been anything officially said by any school I've worked in. I always wondered how that would work, dd2's school would be inundated with staff as there are loads of teachers who live round here, my school would have a tiny handful of teachers because hardly any teachers live close.

We closed yesterday, but the announcement was made after most staff had set off The message about being shut today as well arrived by 3pm yesterday. I'm hoping for a similar message tomorrow.

I'm not at my local school helping out, but I do have a few of dd2's friends arriving soon to play here while their parents go to work.

We're closed - v rural and tiny, dangerous roads.

Dd's secondary school never closes - I did a 20 mile round trip in the morning (2hrs as we got stuck due to an accident) and afternoon to take her and pick her up (no buses this week) only to find there were hardly any teachers in. She had 2 lessons with no teacher at all, sat in the changing rooms in PE and watched a TV programme in French. In English they watched an old film they've already seen of a set work - she has been to see the RSC "live" at Cineworld version with me last week anyway. So today she's at home - did loads of work this morning and now she's off to see a friend. Wish they'd only open if there were enough staff (I do understand some of them travel a long way) - total waste of time yesterday.

We're off tomorrow as well, just had a phone call :)

Hooray Awesome! Hope we are too! Got a phone call last night to say we were closed today. Am now looking anxiously at weather and hoping they make a sensible decision (ie CLOSE) for Friday .

DS school which is 10 miles away has already announced it is closed. My school is 40 miles away. I do not want to drive in....

I'm 10 miles away from my school. I drove in yesterday and it was horrible, only to find they'd made the decision to close while I was driving. I'm so glad they made the sensible decision to close tomorrow. Although I'm now concerned about being behind schedule with my exam classes, as time is tight already. But I'd rather be behind than drive through the snow to get to school again.

Now I'm just hoping for dd2's school to be open so I can have a nice snow day by myself.

LOL! I wrote 4 classes full of reports yesterday, so I felt smug. Today I've done nothing. I did have a vague thought about exam classes/tight time etc. Particularly for new GCSE, but actually it will be 2 lessons at most missed and so I've shrugged it off. Hoping to be finished by Easter with all content for A level/GCSE - I can live with going a week into the next term before starting revision.

I'm praying they will be closed tomorrow but it's touch and go I suspect. We've had no more snow - but on the other hand it's not going and winds are blasting across (East Coast).

Please close, oh powers that be....

Hooray. Off tomorrow!

Yay Bless Have fun, don't work too hard.

My school was closed today and tomorrow's my day off so it's an early start to the weekend for me. DC were off today too and we've had a lovely day playing in the snow but I'm (guiltily) hoping they are back in tomorrow as I have loads of work to do. Luckily they are also hoping the school is open so they can wear their wbd costumes .

Have now had confirmation that both dds are staying home with me tomorrow :( I was really hoping to have the house to myself, as it happens so rarely.