While some have been supportive of the schools that resisted calling off classes on the UK’s hottest day on record, others have been less understanding.
While more than 200 businesses disregarded government recommendations to remain open, others took the initiative to keep kids safe and engaged in their studies.
The most imaginative students at Rhiwbeina Primary School in Wales proudly displayed their work in their classrooms.
But there was an additional component that was absent from the typical school day.
The kids’ feet were soaked in cool water under their desks instead of wearing regular school shoes to keep the heat at bay.
Teachers at Alkrington Primary School, meanwhile, had a brilliant idea to keep the temperature for the kids down.
They also received delectable ice candies to savour and ease the discomfort of the growing temperature during their customary fruit and milk break.
Additionally, Pear Tree Infant and Walbrook Nursery School came up with an excellent idea on how to work the heat into their schedule.
The staff developed water-based games that included ice as the kids learnt about “evaporation.”
“Our wonderful children are embracing their learning during this heatwave – lots of water activities and still managed to do some phonics,” they continued in a blog post.
However, other schools that have remained open have had less air conditioning.
One had to apologise to a student after he was sent home for coming to class in shorts.
The anonymous high school student arrived at Bushey Meads School in the Watford area and was dismissed after 20 minutes.
The headmaster has already apologised to the boy and stated it was a “real mistake.”
Children will now be permitted to wear shorts during the heat wave, according to the school.
“I feel requiring the boys to wear long trousers is improper and verging on unsafe with the temperatures we are now experiencing,” the boy’s mother said in a letter to the school.
Other schools and nurseries that closed their doors and postponed outings because of the heat wave have come under fire from parents.
After Milton Keynes’ air-conditioned Walton High campus was closed due to extreme heat, notices have been put up on the railings there.
I don’t know who put these here, but I agree with the sentiment, said a local mother of two who saw the signs outside her children’s school.
Just a few weeks before the start of the summer break, we all had to locate alternate daycare because the kids had already missed important class time due to the virus.
There is no reason the students couldn’t have been inside today because the school has air conditioning.
In response to predictions that temperatures could reach 43 degrees, schools in Nottinghamshire, Hampshire, and Oxfordshire have decided to close, while others are closing early on Monday and Tuesday.
In a move toward the dispersed environment experienced during the pandemic, several venues now let students to learn from their homes.
However, parents claim that the “completely ludicrous” circumstance has caused “chaos” because it forces them to coordinate last-minute daycare with their employment.
It comes after Oasis, one of the biggest academy chains in England, announced that its schools would remain open and criticised certain establishments’ closure choice as “irresponsible.”
The national emergency has already brought Britain to a virtual stop, with trains cancelled and Luton Airport closing yesterday due to a melting runway.
A North London general practitioner named Dr. Renee Hoenderkamp tweeted that her daughter’s nursery postponed a trip due to bad weather.
I don’t know why she feels less secure there than she does at home, the woman remarked.
What on earth are you expected to do as a parent, who presumably needs to go to work, Dr. Hoenderkamp said in response to a tweet from another parent who was upset that their child’s daycare had closed.
Head of an organisational culture consultant Dr. Sarah Rutherford blasted some schools’ “completely stupid” choice to close at noon due to safety worries.
It’s a symptom of “increasing Government control and further eroding our own inherent sense of what’s best for us,” she claimed.
A father lamented on Twitter that his son’s school was closed, saying that this was “not beneficial to those parents who work.”
Another expressed dissatisfaction, saying “schools have begun to take parents and their jobs for granted.”
Thinking those who are able to work from home can simply switch an office day to a home day, they said. doesn’t operate that that.
It might be really inconvenient.
A London-based Twitter user lamented that “total mayhem” had ensued since “some schools have closed early here.”