The end of the snow day?

bigmike20vt

bigmike20vt

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When i was a kid, it didnt happen often but every now and then rarely the school would be closed.......... This would be a day of great excitement and i would get to play with my friends in the snow. its not like it happens a lot in England.


Now I get that in Scotland the attidude may be different as they get a lot more snow............. but this morning our 6 year olds school mailed out that it was closed.....

That is ok, my wife and i discussed it and it is her turn to take the day off for child care. She was planning a day of snow men, snowball fights and cookie baking...... and the school has just messaged out that all the days lessons which were planned are now online with a link to them.

Over covid where it was a prolonged period this was fantastic, and very important. Maybe i am living in the past, but, for primary school kids at least, can they not just have a snow day?


sorry ramble over. (For now at least we have made the executive decision to ignore the class message and he is out making a snow man).
 
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When you say the lessons are online, are they like a zoom style lesson with a teacher or just that the work is online and they expect a parent to help deliver it?
 
Richie said:
When you say the lessons are online, are they like a zoom style lesson with a teacher or just that the work is online and they expect a parent to help deliver it?
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i think (i must admit it is my wife who read the update) it is just a list of worksheets and what not. I dont *think* it is live learning because not all the kids have zoom or equivalent.
 
6 year old? Go enjoy a day in the snow. But there's no reason you can't spend a few minutes going over the 3 times table later or whatever they were supposed to be learning today.
 
Online via zoom ... then really should be attending them. The teacher is putting in the effort, its downright rude and ungrateful not to be there. If its worksheets then catch up with them later and enjoy the snow in daylight.
 
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those were the days, also where you'd get to school and the heating was broken so you were sent home , let the fun commence :cry:
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lol maybe it is my age as i think attitudes to cold weather have changed over the years (am getting on a bit esp for having a 6 year old) or maybe our school was just hardcore....... but we just had to lump it. i remember being in a porta cabin for a few lessons as a building was being refitted. the heating failed so we just sat in coats and gloves and it was utterly baltic, but at the same time most of us enjoyed it, esp in break time.
 
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My Shropshire primary/secondary schools had a couple of snow days most years between 1986 and 1996. Also, power cuts! That got better though after around 1993.

My sister now works at the same secondary school and she doesn't recall any snow days there in recent years.

You can also get snow days at workplaces. Where I work now (NHS), the policy is that if you get snowed in, you have to use annual leave or deduct a day's pay. If you made it into work ok and the manager later sends you home, then it's treated as paid and you get the rest of the day off. My last snow days were Feb 2018 (unpaid) and Feb 2019 (paid).
 
Schools back in the day had teachers living in the same village or neighbouring villages. So when it snowed, schools stayed open as teachers could walk to school.

Now they live miles away. Friend works at a school 25 miles away as houses where school is are 25% more than where she lives.

My parents’ neighbours are teachers at schools in the neighbouring county.

Many teachers live miles away from schools now. Plus less likely to get confronted by a Chav parent

There needs to be a minimum requirement of teachers to pupils.
 
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My friend went to schools that were next to each other- primary, high and upper. When it snowed badly, at least one of the schools closed. It was never the school she was at! Yet her younger brother had his school closed.

As mentioned in my previous post needs a minimum number of teachers to pupils. Don’t know the ratio
 
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