The end of the snow day?

Soldato
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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?
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.
 
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:
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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