School closures why….

cookeaa+10000 !!!

Oldgit, the stock answer to your question is if we had alpine winters every year, everyone would invest in the infrastructure accordingly, and it would cost kerzillions. Because it doesn't happen very often, we don't invest to cope, so every few years we get an impromptu day to play with the kids in the snow, build snowmen and generally have a bit of fun. Which is fantastic. A day off from capitalism, bring it on.

If it happens more frequently, we will have to invest kerzillions and the impromptu fun days off will cease, which would be a shame really.

Possibly, I do that more often these days.
But I kinda hoped that the answer would be, no they all manage just fine.
Then I would ask what can we learn from our foreign cousins.
This and not just the schools has been the topic on most peoples lips that I've met today.
Litigation does seem a major problem. I was talking to a pub landlord and the issue of his car park in this weather seemed like a Biblical H&S issue. The other thing just seems to be the ability to cope. For example I have work to do, but I rely on supply so I turn up for work reliant on other people doing the same however now it seems I can have two suppliers in the same town and one can get to me without any problems and the other can't because of the weather.
So I'm getting a little frustrated at us/we/the/whoever are not addressing the issue when it is likely this could be the trend of winters to come. For now we let it go as it is hopefully just a day or two of closures, but this could last weeks and weeks you see what I mean.

oh GREAT all south glos schools closed tomorrow………. how the F do they work that out today?

oooh I WILL be ill in 36 days time so cannot go to work,

Muppets

can you not be over the moon that they get the very rare chance to play in it?

CTR i would have thought a weather forecast and probability of people getting stuck, calling early gives a chance for measures to be put in place by parents.

CrashTest I teach in Bristol are they off as well? Had a great day today. May go on an all-dayer if I'm off tomorrow.

how the F do they work that out today?

COMMON SENSE

Seems it isn't that common eh?

bruneep, does the Academy have a larger catchment than the Primary so the kids will have further to travel?

Back in my day in Aboyne (all of 4 years ago) we'd get around a week off each year (cumulative). It was ace, got to go sledging, boarding etc… didn't do me any harm. Chill out and let your kids enjoy it! It's as if you lot don't like being around your own offspring!

Someone said about what happens if young kids can't get home? Do other schools have parents in the village of the school for adverse conditions?

my school is shut again tomorrow, shame I'm off sick and cannot get out of the house on me crutches.

Getting another day off tomorrow cos the school's frozen. Got to school on the first day of snow to be told to turn around and go home. I didn't decide, don't take random days off, do teach 'orrible scouse sock robbers…Hang on why do I feel the need to justify myself as a teacher to the proletariat?

All you haters suck my snow balls!

bruneep, does the Academy have a larger catchment than the Primary so the kids will have further to travel?

Yes probably does and it was open yesterday and today with a later start at 9am and early finish.

Had a couple of RTC's today, resisted to the urge to tell the lads to whip the roof off tho.

email from HT about closure it was due to (and they knew this at 8am 🙄 ) "kitchen deliveries, due in the morning, for the lunches that day were not going to be delivered until later in the afternoon because of the weather and we would not have been able to provide lunches for our pupils."

FFS! take a PACKED LUNCH. My boy does most days.

Bruneep i bet you are a great fun dad to have, wish you were mine!!

wish you were mine!!

It what way 😯

my dad – as ypu seem such a fun person. Are your kids allowed to play in snow or do they have to study all the time?

Are your kids allowed to play in snow or do they have to study all the time?

Yes and No

You don't know me so leave that out.

Usually the case that the more specialised the job/profession, the further away the staff might live.

Yeah, because schools are few and far between…

bruneep you know none of the teachers you are slagging off but continue with it!!

Appologies Bruneep, I didn't read the post properly!

Not the teachers the reason for the closure………….

LOL My Daughter went to school in the end today
But was told to look on the schools internet site
in the morning to see if its open tomorrow!

im off school tomorrow woooooooooooooo!!!….

well the roads in Bristol were BETTER than yesterday and I drove in no problems, in fact the roads were bloody fine, hundreds of cars out, not crawling, all at normal speed… pmsl

well the roads in Bristol were BETTER than yesterday and I drove in no problems, in fact the roads were bloody fine, hundreds of cars out, not crawling, all at normal speed… pmsl

And you could have predicted this with confidence at 6am?

they closed the schools (for today) Yesterday at 2pm, 18 hours before the event…………. jesus even my boss drove in from chippenham to filton with no issues today, the roads are clear so why close the schools? I looked out at 7am and cars were driving fine. God help us when autumn hits and leaves fall.. close them again in case someone slips on a leaf, what about a hot summer and sun burn?

great bit on s glos web

School closure information
All schools in the district will be closed on Thursday 7 January for the safety and welfare of pupils and staff. The situation will be reviewed in the afternoon of that day.
Filton College is also closed

Council buildings

During this period of severe wintry weather South Gloucestershire Council buildings remain open. However, there may be some adjustments to their opening hours which will appear here.

So whats the difference between council workers and schools????????? why can they expect council workers to travel and work but not schools? if it is dangerous for one its dangerous for all. Or not as the case may seem, busses are running, trains are running and gov dept are running. How odd, but I bet as I said yesterday most skiving off work will travel to cinemas, malls, drive to friends or will go out for bike rides..

So whats the difference between council workers and schools?????????

Council workers are all adults?

and the difference between and adult and a child? 20 years ago you went to school come hell or high water, whats different in this day of age? politics.. plain and simple, people afraid of law suits, over 80 cars in my work car park, and the roads are flowing well. the only reason they are closed is politics. Im not commenting on anywhere else as I dont know but bristol is fine, doing a blanket closure on all schools is plain daft!

The adult can make their own decision. The child has to put up with someone else's decision – hence more caution shown in making the decision.

I never used to go to school when it snowed 20 years ago. I went sledging

There was one on the news last night

They managed to open OK but the kids weren't allowed out at break-time as it was "far too dangerous"
Other schools didn't manage to open & the head of one advised kids to "go & play in the snow & enjoy it"

😀

I think uplinks post says it all, my school said "hope we get a day off to play in the snow" I said "i thought you were closing as snow was too dangerous" the teacher did not reply! ……

If you cannot understand the reasons why schools are being cautious and announcing closures early to help parents then maybe you missed the common sense lessons at school due to snow closures.

or perhaps you are the type who sees a snow flake and closes down the hatches and hides at home and looks for an excuse to have a snow day? do you live in bristol? have you seen the roads? I suggest not otherwise you would not in a million years say they are right to close. I will take some footage later of the cars driving on the roads, you would be surprised how clear the roads are here.

It's a question of responsibility.

I would guess that you would probably allow your own kids (if you have any?) to do more risky things than you would allow someone else's kids to do if you happened to be looking after them?

Our school has 5 inches of frozen snow over the playgrounds and carpark. If one student breaks a leg in the playground or get hits by an out of control car in the car park then the school would be liable.

Kiril,

It's not really about the schools being liable – its about the schools not wanting their pupils injured – not quite the same thing.

I have a 1 year old and a 5 year old and no I dont let them take risks, in fact I am quite strict in that way, I wont let my son use his scooter or bike in snow or ice as he does not have the skill to, but I think he is fine walking, jumping and playing in it, I am very happy driving them both as the roads are clear so no danger you just drive sensibly. Sitting at home when travel is ok in bristol seem unresponsible to me, the country cannot grind to a hault when roads are useable. If he is safe playing in snow at home, in a park how is that different that a school play ground? if they can get to school safely where is the problem? Like I say, Bristol is fine, buses are running, roads are clear… so take Filton college with 17/18 year olds.. why is it closed? I know many places in england are really bad and thats fine and I agree with closures, but bristol is not a problem

Well really it's futile talking about it here. The only way you would know would be to be in the room with whoever took the decision and see what info they had at the time.

the roads in Bristol now are irrelevant to making the decision on closure, go back and read what I and others posted earlier, your just making yourself look foolish now.

your just making yourself look foolish now

I live in the real world and get on with life, I dont watch TV and panic at BS weather reports. Bristol is not Severe by any means. However if people want to stop life and stay at home for no reason……. carry on

It sounds to me that those sitting at home having a snow day are trying to justify huge closures in safe driving areas when they could should be at work! like I say this is not aimed at any other area than bristol

BS weather reports

Are you saying that people should ignore weather forecasts?