Schools closed after snow falls 06/01/2010
Wednesday 6th January 2010, 9:00AM GMT.
Shropshire Council has announced that the following schools are closed after last night’s snowfall.
Secondary schools
- Bridgnorth Endowed School
- Church Stretton Secondary School
- Community College, Bishop’s Castle
- Corbet School, Baschurch
- Grange School, Shrewsbury
- Lacon Childe, Cleobury Mortimer
- Lakelands, Ellesmere
- Ludlow School
- Marches School, Oswestry
- Mary Webb, Pontesbury
- Oldbury Wells, Bridgnorth
- Rhyn Park School, St Martins
- Sir John Talbot’s, Whitchurch
- Thomas Adams, Wem
- William Brookes School
Primary schools
- Barrow Primary
- Beckbury Primary
- Bishops Castle Primary
- Bitterely Primary
- Brockton School
- Brown Clee, Ditton Priors
- Burford Primary
- Castlefields, Bridgnorth
- Chirbury Primary
- Church Preen Primary
- Claverley Primary
- Clee Hill Primary
- Clunbury Primary
- Cockshutt Primary
- Corvedale Primary, Diddlebury
- Criftins Primary
- Ellesmere Primary
- Farlow Primary
- Highley Primary
- Hope Primary
- Hopton Wafers Primary
- Ifton Heath Primary
- Longden Primary
- Longnor
- Ludlow Infants
- Ludlow Junior School
- Lydbury North Primary
- Maesbury Primary
- Morville Primary
- Myddle Primary
- Newcastle Primary
- Norbury Primary
- Norton-in-Hales Primary
- Onny Primary, Onibury
- Oswestry Holy Trinity
- Pontesbury Primary
- Rushbury Primary
- Selattyn Primary
- Sherifhales Primary
- Shifnal Primary
- St George’s Primary, Clun
- St John’s Catholic Primary, Bridgnorth
- St Laurence’s Primary, Ludlow
- St Lawrence’s Primary, Church Stretton
- St Leonard’s Primary, Bridgnorth
- St Mary’s Bluecoat, Bridgnorth
- St Mary’s Primary, Bucknell
- Stiperstones Primary
- Stottesdon Primary
- Trefonen Primary
- Welshampton Primary
- Weston Lullingfields
- Whitchurch Infants
- Whitchurch Junior School
- Wistanstow Primary
- Woodside Primary Oswestry
- Worfield Primary
- Worthen CE Primary School
Special schools
- Woodlands Special School
- Severndale Special School, Shrewsbury
For further details call the council’s helpline, 01743 252980, between 7am and 9am.
There are four schools closed in the Telford & Wrekin Council area:
Primary schools
- Preston St Lawrence
- Woodlands Primary
Special Schools
- Mount Gilbert
- Bridge School, Hadley
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Hundreds of Telford & Wrekin school children will be late for school today because Telford FM incorrectly reported all schools (except 2)as being closed. It was only after several school heads phoned the station that they corrected the mistake, blaming a list received from another radio station!
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Shropshire – hang your head in shame.
A little bit of snow and the schools close.
What is the knock on effect to all those parents who now cannot go to work because they have to stay at home looking after their children.
Will it just be industry that suffers, will it be the families who have no income for however long this disgraceful situation persists, or will lives be lost when there are no doctors, nurses, paramedics, firemen, policemen etc who will not be available as they are at home with their children.
We were once a great nation that defeated Hitler and ruled the world – we now claim that we are tackling world terrorism – and yet we cannot tackle a bit of snow.
Be ashamed, be very ashamed!
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I cannot remember ever having a day off for bad weather in all the years I was at school, just very occasionally being sent home an hour or so early if exceptionally bad, but now a couple of flakes and the Health and Safety police shut everything, never mind the parents and if they can get the time off work. Kids used to struggle in, mostly on foot or via school buses. reasonable lateness was understood in the circumstances. This is the nanny state….
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If the council did a better job on the roads they wouldnt have to close the schools people would be able to get about.
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Lazy lazy lazy people! I went from Telford to Dudley and then on to Birmingham this morning at 7:30am, the roads were fine. So many people chose to be lazy that it took me less time than normal to drive this route…. and the roads were well gritted too!
Public sector greedy selfish idiots should stop throwing our taxes up the wall and get on with their jobs. There was absolutely no reason to close anything in this area today!
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Captain D.
What are schools for?? They are not nuseries so that parents can go to scholl, do you really think this is a reason to keep schools open?
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Glyn,
I went to school throughout the big one of 1963 and we never had a day off for snow, what’s so diffrent now that means we should close the schools?
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Glyn
Schools are there to educate our children. Any attempt, by a parent, to take a child out of school during term time has to be approved by the school or a parent can be fined for such an action.
If schools can insist on this, backed by the farce that is british law, why is it that schools can close on a whim with no penalty?
Double standards me thinks!!
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I don’t think it’s the main roads that were a problem but the roads leading to Schools and the carparks themselves are extremely dangerous. As there are always children around these areas we need to take them into consideration; the fact is that if you lose control of your car due to the snow you could cause great injury to someone.
I myself travel to Schools and it’s not a case of being lazy, people should sometimes consider the ‘bigger’ picture.
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Glyn,
I work with a school that remained open today and all but 10 students turned up, not necessarily on time but they did arrive, meaning that they studied what they were supposed to study as part of their curriculum, the students of the schools that closed did not so as a result will of missed what could potentially be important for their studies.
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Brian,
There is a huge difference, the people! in the 60′s we didnt feel the cold, because we didnt have heating, but now we do so we feel the cold when we dont have heating. In the 60′s people walked to school because they were local, now because schools a fewer and bigger kids need to travel further. Also because of this blame culture which was not around in the 60′s, school are too scared to open, not their fault, I can go on and on…. You cant compare to 50 years ago!!
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Glyn, you dont seem to understand Captain Ds point. He says valuable members of our community, such as doctors,nurses and other emergency staff are having to stay at home to look after their children because the schools are closed due to snow. he said nothing about using schools as a nursery! This does inconvenience parents as children are sent to school to be taught not sent as a nursery.
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What’s wrong with letting children have a day off to play in the snow?
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@ Captain Disgusted:
I suggest you chill your beef. The emergency services are coping fine, the industry will recover from one day of reduced capacity, families will cope fine without the exra pay and what has Hitler or world terrorism got to do with this?
What people seem to forget is the uproar which would occur if a school bus was to skid on a but of ice and crash. I bet then you’d all change your mind and complain about why the schools weren’t closed.
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Lee, Answer me this.. how many days in a year is a child off school because of the snow? maybe 2 or 3, now how many times is a child off school because of ilness? maybe 10 -20? what do all the doctors etc etc do then?? Your point is irelevant.
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Why exactly are these schools closed? I watched lots of parents and children turn up at our local school yesterday, only to be turned away. Getting to school clearly wasn’t a problem. If some idiot has ordered hundreds of schools to close for fear of the blame culture then they should be sacked. Most of the kids went off to play in the snow, so there was clearly no fear of injury on their part. Whoever order these closures, get a life!!
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Glyn,
you summed it up wonderfully, there is a big difference in people now than the sixties….the teachers now are lazy and good for nothing they certainly don’t set a good example to the kids…they set the example of skive off like us and you will be alright….yep if you get a public sector job you will but not if you work in the REAL WORLD. Try working for yourslf and see how many days off with paid leave you get.
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“What people seem to forget is the uproar which would occur if a school bus was to skid on a but of ice and crash. I bet then you’d all change your mind and complain about why the schools weren’t closed. ”
James, for heavens sake, get real. How many scholl buses skid on ice…only in your mind. If you were to venture out like the rest of us you would see that the roads are clear and safe.
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Okay to all those moaning about children being off. Picture this,
Its 3.pm, lots of children are in a car park outside school leaving to go home. A bus picks up lots of students, and then goes to exit the car park. On its way out, the bus slides on ice, and knocks down a group of students who are now ill in hospital. Who are you going to blame?? If the schools were open, people compain. If the schools are shut, people compain. Its health and safety.
I didnt go to uni this week because of the weather. Three days off will not affect my degree, neither will 3 days hurt childrens education. I accept some parents will have difficulties due to schools being off, but im fairly sure, that they will put safety off their children before three days loss of education!!!
Critise all you want. I have had my rant.
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Oh dear Brian, you’ve unfortunatley turned to insults to back your arguments. Debate over for me.
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I remember the winter of ’47 – had a great time – not sure whether the schools were closed much. I don’t think so. Here in Canada we close the schools down when the temperature gets below -35c (but not always) or when there is a really nasty storm.
It seems to me though, that, in spite of the terrible conditions in schools and the poverty of our home lives in post-war England we had a better education. Many posters on this forum seem hard pressed to write coherently. It is rather sad that a university student cannot spell, punctuate, or use capitals when necessary.
Possibly because his/her school was closed for no good reason, too many times, during his/her primary education.
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