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Posted By: Anonymous Almost all Schools will be open on Monday - 9th Jan 2010 2:51pm
ALMOST all of Wirral's schools and colleges will be back open on Monday, having been closed this week due to the big freeze.

After taking account of the current weather forecast, traffic and road conditions on main transport routes, and public and school transport provision, the following advice has been given to schools by Wirral Council:





Primary Schools




From Monday, January 11, 2010, all primary schools are advised to open.

If full opening is not possible then partial opening should be considered.

As at 4pm Friday, January 8, 2010, we are aware of only one primary school which cannot open on Monday, which is St Laurence’s, Birkenhead due to a heating failure.



All other primary schools are expected to open.


Many primary schools are situated on non primary or secondary gritting routes and parents/carers should give careful consideration to the safest approach routes to schools.

Some primary schools intend opening on a staggered basis to assist traffic flow on Monday, January 11.

Parents are asked to consult individual school websites [or indeed the Globe's].

There will be no specialist transport provision on Monday, January 11 for pupils who are normally collected from home.




Secondary Schools



All secondary schools have been advised to open on Monday, January 11 and as at 4pm on Friday, January 8, all secondary schools have indicated that they will open on Monday.

Parents/carers are asked to check individual school websites for any specific arrangements for pupils.

Merseytravel have indicated that their contractors will provide school bus services wherever possible but these may operate on gritted routes only and therefore services routes may vary.

There will be no specialist transport provision on Monday, January 11 for pupils who are normally collected from home.





Special Schools



All special schools have been advised to remain CLOSED on Monday, January 11 as there will be no specialist transport provision for pupils.

A further risk assessment and discussions with the specialist transport providers will take place on Monday and a further update will be given.

Children’s Centres Nine Children’s Centres have been open today - Friday, January 8 - and it is anticipated that all Children’s Centres will be open on Monday, January 11.



Further Education


It is further anticipated that all Wirral Met College campuses and Birkenhead Sixth Form College will be open on Monday.

All the above is subject to weather conditions remaining as forecast over the weekend, with only light snow showers currently forecast as a possibility for Wirral on Sunday, January 10.

Should there be a marked deterioration in weather conditions over the weekend, parents should listen to announcements on local radio stations, and check the council website
http://www.wirral.gov.uk/
Posted By: Sallybear Re: Almost all Schools will be open on Monday - 9th Jan 2010 6:07pm
It's great that they are planning to open, and i for one support this as my child hasn't yet been back to school since Xmas, but with more snow forecast Sunday night and all day Monday, how do they plan to open??

None of the roads between my home and my childs school are gritted, surely gritting around schools should be a priority, and on the pavements too.
Originally Posted by Sallybear
It's great that they are planning to open, and i for one support this as my child hasn't yet been back to school since Xmas, but with more snow forecast Sunday night and all day Monday, how do they plan to open??

None of the roads between my home and my childs school are gritted, surely gritting around schools should be a priority, and on the pavements too.
withthat
Posted By: jimbob Re: Almost all Schools will be open on Monday - 9th Jan 2010 7:14pm
in 1947 during the winter that was a lot worse than this one, none of the roads where gritted {no such thing in those days} yet we all went to school. Of course you walked to school in those days.
Posted By: bert1 Re: Almost all Schools will be open on Monday - 9th Jan 2010 7:35pm
Well you had to go, you were the headmaster.
Posted By: MattLFC Re: Almost all Schools will be open on Monday - 9th Jan 2010 8:52pm
Do people not understand, the human body has these wonderful things called legs and attatched to them are feet... you put the right forward forward first, the left foot will follow, they call it walking.

You don't need the roads gritted for this.
Posted By: Sallybear Re: Almost all Schools will be open on Monday - 9th Jan 2010 8:58pm
Actually why you chose to assume I was a driver is beyond me, I mentioned the pavements as with most of them round ours being york stone and NOT gritted it is in my opinion too dangerous to let my daughter walk to school. She has walked to school either with me or alone for a while now, but there is currently no safe way to walk to her school.

Just a suggestion that they place some emphasis on the roads and pavements around schools being gritted, so it is safe to walk, especially with loads more snow forecast,

not so i can drive there!!
Posted By: RUDEBOX Re: Almost all Schools will be open on Monday - 9th Jan 2010 8:59pm
Could do with the pavements gritting tho!
Went out before, it was trecherous!! Plusone went a over t, me sons fell twice and ive had a few wobbles. Cant enjoy a walk, inching along like an 80 year old!!
Posted By: MattLFC Re: Almost all Schools will be open on Monday - 9th Jan 2010 9:05pm
Okay people, so the council must grit all the pavements and all the roads, just so people can get about.

If this were to happen, you would then moan about the rise in council tax or income tax - these things do need to be paid for you know.

God only knows what people did before grtting was around - must have just become hermits and gone into winter hibernation or something.

People nowadays make me laugh - I used to walk to school no matter what the weather - in fact, ive done a fair bit of walking today, and its generally quite safe so long as you don't arse about. Oh, and if it snows on Monday, it will actually make it safer, as you will be walking on fresh snow and not ice, so I don't get the complaint.
Posted By: Sallybear Re: Almost all Schools will be open on Monday - 9th Jan 2010 9:08pm
You obviously just want to disagree so Im not really going to get into it other than to say it would be great like in the OLD days as you keep mentioning if we could all just walk but with increase in traffic, unsafe pavements even without ice on them i just want my child to be safe. Was just putting my tuppence in.

Posted By: MattLFC Re: Almost all Schools will be open on Monday - 9th Jan 2010 9:10pm
Wrapped in cotton wool comes to mind; if its that dangerous, get them a mountaineering/ski stick, or push them in a buggy.

People in this country are just fags, through and through; imagine if the comrades who fought in the world wars started crying and maoning and ceasing to work owhen a bit of snow came down and made it icy, we would'nt even be having this discussion.

What happened to resiliance. Britain is the laughing stock of the western world, and yet again, peoples attitudes show us up for being a nation of molly coddled nanny state-ified pussies!!
Posted By: MattLFC Re: Almost all Schools will be open on Monday - 9th Jan 2010 9:15pm
Oh and considering the kid's can't walk to school, there is plenty of them out on sledges and having snowball fights, running around throwing snowballs at cars etc...

Sounds very similar to the majority of the people on sick, the disability is present only when it's convenient.
Posted By: kimpri Re: Almost all Schools will be open on Monday - 9th Jan 2010 10:03pm
Originally Posted by jimbob
in 1947 during the winter that was a lot worse than this one, none of the roads where gritted {no such thing in those days} yet we all went to school. Of course you walked to school in those days.

Less cars on the road in 1947.
Posted By: MissGuided Re: Almost all Schools will be open on Monday - 9th Jan 2010 10:14pm
The only thing the council will be gritting for now will be main arterial routes, A roads. The grit is dwindling.
I work in a special school in south Liverpool and it can be very difficult for most of the pupils to get into school even if its not snowing! Some pupils end up sitting on a mini bus for nearly and hour and a half if they live in north Liverpool whilst the bus collects other pupils.In this weather they have been on the bus for almost 3hours which is very distressing on all accounts.Staying at school for a couple of hours then having to set off early. Our school has closed for a couple of days, stayed open for half day for parents who were really stuck but other than that we couldnt do much else.It's incredibly frustrating for everyone and I really empathise with parents who need some respite! I really hope the weather improves ...for the sanity of these families!
Posted By: cezza Re: Almost all Schools will be open on Monday - 10th Jan 2010 1:44am
i live on a main road,pavements are ice now and everyone is walking on the road as it is safer,cant wait to get my 3 children bak to school on monday but also dreading the walk to school( my children are 9,5 and 4).Snow is fine,i have no problem with that but when i am walking on ice with 2 hands to hold and my 9 year old fending for herself then thats in a totally different league! gud luck all u mums on monday morning!
Posted By: kezzbag Re: Almost all Schools will be open on Monday - 10th Jan 2010 2:30am
Matt, when ur all grown up and have children of your own you`ll understand. It`s not our (as mums) welfare we`re thinkin of it`s our kids. Cars skidin all over the place could mount a curb etc.People have died just walkin on ice and fallen and banged their head. You`ll realise that other people matter more than your own life. I`m a driver and wouldn`t dare put my kids in a car atm. Walkin on it`s own is scarey. I really realy want schools to open again as I have a partner on nights so keepin 3 kids quiet and happy all day is a task in itself. I have been out and broken as much of the ice as I can, Today I had to give it a rest coz my hands hurt so much.
Posted By: bert1 Re: Almost all Schools will be open on Monday - 10th Jan 2010 6:19am
Just because schools are re-opening, no one that matters would expect anyone to risk life and limb to get there, the safety of children is the most important thing to consider along with the safety of those who have to escort them to school. If anybody considers it to dangerous still, to navigate their way to schools etc, then its simple , you don't go until you consider it safe to do so. I have done a fair bit of walking and driving since the weather took a turn for the worst and on most pavements I've been on i definitly wouldn't like to be responsible for the safety of a few little ones. Its better for the children to lose a few days education now than to lose many weeks with broken limbs.
berts right we live on a hill the pavements and the roads are lethal,i will try to get them there safetly but im not going to risk any broken bones (tcs missus)
Posted By: Anonymous Re: Almost all Schools will be open on Monday - 10th Jan 2010 12:11pm
Matt


have you been out for a walk yet ?? (and i dont mean to ye car an back) its a death trap out there, there is blood all over liscard were old and young have fell over smacking there heads. you were the first to want the meet canceled.
Posted By: Tilly Re: Almost all Schools will be open on Monday - 10th Jan 2010 1:58pm
i wouldn't risk taking my dogs out either.
Posted By: RUDEBOX Re: Almost all Schools will be open on Monday - 10th Jan 2010 3:54pm
Just tk a black bag to end of path. Fell twice. The 2nd time i tryed to grab the fence and ended up nearly being impaled on it. Luckily, just a sore rib.
Posted By: SUExx Re: Almost all Schools will be open on Monday - 10th Jan 2010 4:50pm
everyone has their own opinions, some people just carry on dispite the snow others have a lay down a give up attitude, each to their own. But there are some people were i work who made the effort to get into work and then there were other people who lived in the same area who took 2 days off work because they said they couldnt get in.
Posted By: jimbob Re: Almost all Schools will be open on Monday - 10th Jan 2010 7:12pm
sensilble foot ware helps as well
Posted By: SUExx Re: Almost all Schools will be open on Monday - 10th Jan 2010 7:44pm
Originally Posted by jimbob
sensilble foot ware helps as well



i lived in my wellies all week and havent fell once or slipped.

Posted By: kezzbag Re: Almost all Schools will be open on Monday - 11th Jan 2010 12:58am
Originally Posted by susan
everyone has their own opinions, some people just carry on dispite the snow others have a lay down a give up attitude, each to their own. But there are some people were i work who made the effort to get into work and then there were other people who lived in the same area who took 2 days off work because they said they couldnt get in.


If the schools were open I`d make the effort to get my kids to school as safely as possible. 1 has to go to Eastham, 1 has to go to a high school a bus journey away and little one has to walk up the road but it`s not the roads anymore, it is the pavements. I also live on a hill so come in the morning, kids returning to education will be down to common sense.
Posted By: Tilly Re: Almost all Schools will be open on Monday - 11th Jan 2010 1:09am
i pick my grandaughter up from st Georges school most days, the thought of having to walk up and down Broadway ave is too scary. cry
Posted By: kimpri Re: Almost all Schools will be open on Monday - 11th Jan 2010 1:10am
At my lads school Woodchurch C OF E on the woodchurch, Giving you till 10am to get there, Letting them out at 3pm so you miss rush hour. smile
Posted By: Tilly Re: Almost all Schools will be open on Monday - 11th Jan 2010 1:14am
Originally Posted by kimpri1
At my lads school Woodchurch C OF E on the woodchurch, Giving you till 10am to get there, Letting them out at 3pm so you miss rush hour. smile


thats good of them, yes
Posted By: BandyCoot Re: Almost all Schools will be open on Monday - 12th Jan 2010 11:11am
Lots of teachers shopping in Tesco's though.
Posted By: Anonymous Re: Almost all Schools will be open on Monday - 12th Jan 2010 11:28am
Originally Posted by Tilly
i pick my grandaughter up from st Georges school most days, the thought of having to walk up and down Broadway ave is too scary. cry


Might as well stick a plank of wood to ya arse and slide down! Malpas Road was just an ice rink. Be nice if the locals could pop out with a spade and just clear some of it.
Posted By: MissGuided Re: Almost all Schools will be open on Monday - 12th Jan 2010 11:39am
Tie tennis rackets to your feet. Not that helpful but will give people a laugh... think
Posted By: Tilly Re: Almost all Schools will be open on Monday - 12th Jan 2010 1:23pm
Originally Posted by Snooze
Tie tennis rackets to your feet. Not that helpful but will give people a laugh... think


raftl
Posted By: kezzbag Re: Almost all Schools will be open on Monday - 13th Jan 2010 1:03am
D`ya know wot,it`s not funny anymore. I hate the ice with a vengence. The roads are great (main one`s anyway) , if they`ve made roads safer why can`t they do something about the pavements? I drove to chester y`day and they had guys out scrapping pavements and grittin them.
Well, temperature was holding up at 1.5 degrees, but then it started snowing and dropped to -0.5, snow has started to stick.
Posted By: RUDEBOX Re: Almost all Schools will be open on Monday - 13th Jan 2010 5:15am
NOT HAPPY frown Gotta walk to tranmere in the morning frown
Posted By: MissGuided Re: Almost all Schools will be open on Monday - 13th Jan 2010 9:07am
Schools closed today - so far...

Wednesday 13 January
Middlefield Primary School, Speke – closing early at 2pm
Willaston CE Primary, Neston – closing early at 1:30pm

I hear that South Wirral is closing too.
Posted By: RUDEBOX Re: Almost all Schools will be open on Monday - 13th Jan 2010 9:30am
Originally Posted by RUDEBOX
NOT HAPPY frown Gotta walk to tranmere in the morning frown
laugh dont have to go in laugh
Posted By: RUDEBOX Re: Almost all Schools will be open on Monday - 13th Jan 2010 9:41am
Originally Posted by kezzbag
D`ya know wot,it`s not funny anymore. I hate the ice with a vengence. why can`t they do something about the pavements?
grrrr. Just as it was nearly thawed. Back to square one!!
Posted By: clayman22 Re: Almost all Schools will be open on Monday - 13th Jan 2010 9:53am
How heavy is the snow in Wallasey as the minute? The snow was only fairly light when I headed over to work in L'pool this morning and it's coming heavily-ish over here now. Am wondering if an early dart will be in order to avoid the grief that occurred last week. Great site by the way.
Posted By: RUDEBOX Re: Almost all Schools will be open on Monday - 13th Jan 2010 9:58am
Its steady, but only small blobs and its sticking, more on the pavement than road. Welcome to wiki.
Posted By: clayman22 Re: Almost all Schools will be open on Monday - 13th Jan 2010 11:21am
It's gone pretty wispy over here now. Doesn't look like I'll be heading home early then. Undoubtedly it also looks like the wife will finally have to work a full week at the school she teaches in on the Wirral. About time too.
Posted By: kezzbag Re: Almost all Schools will be open on Monday - 16th Jan 2010 1:38am
Thank goodness it`s almost all gone! I can wait quite patiently for THAT weather again.
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