Snow leads to school closures

2:12pm Monday 14th January 2013 in News By Andy Carswell

The Highcrest Academy is one of three schools in the area to be closed this afternoon The Highcrest Academy is one of three schools in the area to be closed this afternoon

SEVERAL south Bucks schools have closed early this afternoon due to 'adverse weather conditions'.

Pupils at the Highcrest Academy in High Wycombe, Widmer End Combined School and Little Kingshill Combined School were the first to be allowed to go home early after closing shortly after 1pm today.

West Wycombe Combined School and the Wycombe Grange Pupil Referral Unit have now followed and sent pupils home.

The Meadow School in Wooburn Green has been shut all day due to urgent maintenance.

Parents of pupils at Highcrest were informed of the closure, while those with children at Widmer End are being urged to come and collect their sons and daughters if possible. After school clubs have also been cancelled.

Staff at Little Kingshill say the roads around the school are starting to become dangerous due to the amount of snow falling there.

Keep up to date on the list of school closures by going to http://apps1.buckscc.gov.uk/eforms2005/SSSchoolStatus/default.aspx.

Comments(40)

sidthesexist says...
2:28pm Mon 14 Jan 13

What adverse weather conditions? there is less than 1CM of snow on the paths, and the roads only have a little slush on them. Some of us remember walking to school with the snow up past our knee's...

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Cressex Offender says...
3:10pm Mon 14 Jan 13

Your knee's what?

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wycombechick says...
3:12pm Mon 14 Jan 13

"Parents of pupils at Highcrest were informed of closure"
I wasn't! My child just made his own way home.

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andy40 says...
3:18pm Mon 14 Jan 13

Snow stopped falling over an hour ago, as forecast. Major roads and bus routes have been gritted and are clear.

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sidthesexist says...
3:36pm Mon 14 Jan 13

Yup snow already seems to be melting off of the footpaths, roads clear...

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retchub says...
3:58pm Mon 14 Jan 13

any excuse for the 'poor'' teachers to go home . what would happen if doctors ,nurses. fire services etc took this action???? the roads are perfectly ok !!!!!

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Mr Totterdge Hill says...
3:58pm Mon 14 Jan 13

Bless the little darlings from Highcrest playing chicken with the cars on Totteridge Hill... and rolling big snowballs down the hill towards the traffic.
Thank goodness they got let out of school early because they roads are now too clear for them to do so.

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lady Ratz says...
4:10pm Mon 14 Jan 13

Light dusting of the white stuff, Close the schools, this never happened in the 60s nor early 70s,, Teachers and pupils bunch of wimps these days, Children, and Yobs from highcrest sent home because of snow, Soon as they are home they be out playing about in it ?.

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lady Ratz says...
4:11pm Mon 14 Jan 13

retchub wrote:
any excuse for the 'poor'' teachers to go home . what would happen if doctors ,nurses. fire services etc took this action???? the roads are perfectly ok !!!!!
Well said.

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BOOKERite says...
4:31pm Mon 14 Jan 13

lady Ratz wrote:
retchub wrote:
any excuse for the 'poor'' teachers to go home . what would happen if doctors ,nurses. fire services etc took this action???? the roads are perfectly ok !!!!!
Well said.
I agree with you lady Ratz.

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Good Life says...
6:08pm Mon 14 Jan 13

Wondered which area and schools would be first I am surprised the teachers actually went in at all with 1 centimetre of snow which has all gone without a trace.

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Anna Smith says...
6:37pm Mon 14 Jan 13

Unbelievable!

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retchub says...
6:48pm Mon 14 Jan 13

perhaps they better close the schools tomorrow as well. then they can all go shopping instead !!!!!!!!!!

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retchub says...
6:48pm Mon 14 Jan 13

perhaps they better close the schools tomorrow as well. then they can all go shopping instead !!!!!!!!!!

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ChilternsBlue says...
6:52pm Mon 14 Jan 13

How ridiculous, and yet so expected.

By deciding to close at 1pm those schools actually forced parents to leave work and to drive through the snowy conditions.

Had they waited and/or looked at the forecast they would have noted that snow was due to stop by 3pm.

This is exactly what happened and by 3.30pm roads were already clear and snow had long since disappeared.

Too late by that time of course because Head Teachers were too quick to hit the panic button...

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sidthesexist says...
6:53pm Mon 14 Jan 13

retchub wrote:
perhaps they better close the schools tomorrow as well. then they can all go shopping instead !!!!!!!!!!
Don't worry if there's no snow they will just book a "Teachers training day" for that..

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firminafirm says...
9:37pm Mon 14 Jan 13

What a lazy peice of 'journalism'. This is just copied from the Bucks CC website.

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Drew70 says...
12:14am Tue 15 Jan 13

Then I see a post on Facebook from a teacher saying " home before three, I could get used to this snow malarkey" then they moan they don't get paid enough, sorry, total over reaction from panicking heads, also love the fact some of the parents at the school our two children attend were told to collect at 2:30, and were then kept waiting outsideuntil 3:05 when they finally let the children out!

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gpn01 says...
9:14am Tue 15 Jan 13

Who makes the decision on whether a school should close or not? I presume it's the Head. In which case who are they accountable to? Perhaps it's poor decision making or perhaps it's poor information. In fairness maybe a judgement call was made and it was the wrong one. Happens to us all!

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Mr Totterdge Hill says...
10:55am Tue 15 Jan 13

It seems very odd to let kids out into an unsafe environment, cars sliding about... especially the ones avoiding the kids playing chicken on Totteridge Hill.
I just don't get it, those kids had no comprehension of the consequences... to other pedestrians or the road users. We all know who would get the blame for an accident... the driver!

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Whatsgoingonthen? says...
11:33am Tue 15 Jan 13

Why is the Meadows included in this article when the reason for closure was because of maintenance? The children were sent home in the morning because there was no heating in the school not because of the weather, as stated on the schools closure list.

What annoys me more is that schools will be closed for voting on the 2 May. I dont suppose there will be an article about this in the BFP.

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Whatsgoingonthen? says...
11:43am Tue 15 Jan 13

Sorry, just to be clear the schools closure list said Meadows was closed due to urgent maintenance

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MCarey says...
12:05pm Tue 15 Jan 13

Its amazing Holmer Green Senior School stayed open day they are usually the first to close their doors on a snowy day so ell done to the staff!!

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buser says...
3:27pm Tue 15 Jan 13

Ah but! In the 'good old days' we didn't live with the dreaded'Health and Safety". If you slipped on the ice, or in my case, slipped on a piece of coke (the fuel type I hasten to add, dropped by the caretaker fuelling the antiquated heating system in the nasty old Nissan huts,) you were probably chastised for not being careful enough or for fooling around, now? You definitely sue! I truly do not agree with this culture, but sadly it does exist and perhaps, in some cases, the head teachers are over cautious.

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sidthesexist says...
4:28pm Tue 15 Jan 13

buser wrote:
Ah but! In the 'good old days' we didn't live with the dreaded'Health and Safety". If you slipped on the ice, or in my case, slipped on a piece of coke (the fuel type I hasten to add, dropped by the caretaker fuelling the antiquated heating system in the nasty old Nissan huts,) you were probably chastised for not being careful enough or for fooling around, now? You definitely sue! I truly do not agree with this culture, but sadly it does exist and perhaps, in some cases, the head teachers are over cautious.
In a lot of cases the head's and teachers are responsible for brainwashing the kids with this kind of ideology in the first place..

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allrightnow2 says...
6:41pm Tue 15 Jan 13

BOOKERite wrote:
lady Ratz wrote:
retchub wrote:
any excuse for the 'poor'' teachers to go home . what would happen if doctors ,nurses. fire services etc took this action???? the roads are perfectly ok !!!!!
Well said.
I agree with you lady Ratz.
Except that the teachers were the last to go home at my local school. Partly because they had to wait for all the children to go (and not all were picked up early) and partly because this was all just due to panic about the children being safe on site and getting home safely thanks to Health and Safety. Therefore many teachers stayed on to do some paperwork. What I don't understand is if the bus routes were all still running (which they were) and there was no threat to them (which there wasn't) then why did the schools feel that it was necessary to close?

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Mr Totterdge Hill says...
11:12pm Tue 15 Jan 13

allrightnow2 wrote:
BOOKERite wrote:
lady Ratz wrote:
retchub wrote:
any excuse for the 'poor'' teachers to go home . what would happen if doctors ,nurses. fire services etc took this action???? the roads are perfectly ok !!!!!
Well said.
I agree with you lady Ratz.
Except that the teachers were the last to go home at my local school. Partly because they had to wait for all the children to go (and not all were picked up early) and partly because this was all just due to panic about the children being safe on site and getting home safely thanks to Health and Safety. Therefore many teachers stayed on to do some paperwork. What I don't understand is if the bus routes were all still running (which they were) and there was no threat to them (which there wasn't) then why did the schools feel that it was necessary to close?
...just wait till next week... I got Friday right... Now Tuesdays...Mwahahaha
ahhaha!

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Mr Totterdge Hill says...
11:13pm Tue 15 Jan 13

Mr Totterdge Hill wrote:
allrightnow2 wrote:
BOOKERite wrote:
lady Ratz wrote:
retchub wrote:
any excuse for the 'poor'' teachers to go home . what would happen if doctors ,nurses. fire services etc took this action???? the roads are perfectly ok !!!!!
Well said.
I agree with you lady Ratz.
Except that the teachers were the last to go home at my local school. Partly because they had to wait for all the children to go (and not all were picked up early) and partly because this was all just due to panic about the children being safe on site and getting home safely thanks to Health and Safety. Therefore many teachers stayed on to do some paperwork. What I don't understand is if the bus routes were all still running (which they were) and there was no threat to them (which there wasn't) then why did the schools feel that it was necessary to close?
...just wait till next week... I got Friday right... Now Tuesdays...Mwahahaha

ahhaha!
Strange page break ruined my evil laugh!
Mwahahahaahhaha.

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Mr Totterdge Hill says...
11:14pm Tue 15 Jan 13

Mr Totterdge Hill wrote:
Mr Totterdge Hill wrote:
allrightnow2 wrote:
BOOKERite wrote:
lady Ratz wrote:
retchub wrote:
any excuse for the 'poor'' teachers to go home . what would happen if doctors ,nurses. fire services etc took this action???? the roads are perfectly ok !!!!!
Well said.
I agree with you lady Ratz.
Except that the teachers were the last to go home at my local school. Partly because they had to wait for all the children to go (and not all were picked up early) and partly because this was all just due to panic about the children being safe on site and getting home safely thanks to Health and Safety. Therefore many teachers stayed on to do some paperwork. What I don't understand is if the bus routes were all still running (which they were) and there was no threat to them (which there wasn't) then why did the schools feel that it was necessary to close?
...just wait till next week... I got Friday right... Now Tuesdays...Mwahahaha


ahhaha!
Strange page break ruined my evil laugh!
Mwahahahaahhaha.
That's much better!

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shaky2 says...
5:28am Wed 16 Jan 13

sidthesexist wrote:
What adverse weather conditions? there is less than 1CM of snow on the paths, and the roads only have a little slush on them. Some of us remember walking to school with the snow up past our knee's...
Yes and lot's of familys didn't have cars, now it seems that half inch of snow and the whole of england stops what are we turning into I ask?

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ImpeturbableLawrence says...
1:29am Thu 17 Jan 13

sidthesexist wrote:
buser wrote:
Ah but! In the 'good old days' we didn't live with the dreaded'Health and Safety". If you slipped on the ice, or in my case, slipped on a piece of coke (the fuel type I hasten to add, dropped by the caretaker fuelling the antiquated heating system in the nasty old Nissan huts,) you were probably chastised for not being careful enough or for fooling around, now? You definitely sue! I truly do not agree with this culture, but sadly it does exist and perhaps, in some cases, the head teachers are over cautious.
In a lot of cases the head's and teachers are responsible for brainwashing the kids with this kind of ideology in the first place..
.



the head's and teachers are responsible ...


The head's what?

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ImpeturbableLawrence says...
1:31am Thu 17 Jan 13

shaky2 wrote:
sidthesexist wrote:
What adverse weather conditions? there is less than 1CM of snow on the paths, and the roads only have a little slush on them. Some of us remember walking to school with the snow up past our knee's...
Yes and lot's of familys didn't have cars, now it seems that half inch of snow and the whole of england stops what are we turning into I ask?
A nation of effeminate pooftahs except for the Islamic militants and Tigeran.

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ImpeturbableLawrence says...
1:31am Thu 17 Jan 13

(forgot to mention Rev Peter Simpson.)

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ImpeturbableLawrence says...
1:32am Thu 17 Jan 13

(Or ivor!)

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retchub says...
8:58pm Thu 17 Jan 13

now I see they are closing tomorrow ,Friday. I am a retail worker and I will go to work whatever. bet you would moan if all shops were to shut !!!!! not forgetting hospitals etc !! stop their wages

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Lauraforgodssake says...
1:30pm Fri 18 Jan 13

Oh dear all you people who scoff and scorn! God forbid that any teacher should be concerned about their students! For all your information a 12 year old Highcrest Academy student was seriously injured on the pavement today, she is said to be in a serious condition. I hope that you all feel disgusted with yourselves for your pathetic comments but then again people like you who are all so opinionated think that you know better than anyone and don't feel guilt! Well while you're walking look out for that car that might loose control and hit you. Oh and by the way ambulances are struggling to cope with the sheer amount of traffic and conditions so let's hope you don't slip and break a hip.

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ImpeturbableLawrence says...
5:33pm Fri 18 Jan 13

Mr Totterdge Hill wrote:
Mr Totterdge Hill wrote:
Mr Totterdge Hill wrote:
allrightnow2 wrote:
BOOKERite wrote:
lady Ratz wrote:
retchub wrote:
any excuse for the 'poor'' teachers to go home . what would happen if doctors ,nurses. fire services etc took this action???? the roads are perfectly ok !!!!!
Well said.
I agree with you lady Ratz.
Except that the teachers were the last to go home at my local school. Partly because they had to wait for all the children to go (and not all were picked up early) and partly because this was all just due to panic about the children being safe on site and getting home safely thanks to Health and Safety. Therefore many teachers stayed on to do some paperwork. What I don't understand is if the bus routes were all still running (which they were) and there was no threat to them (which there wasn't) then why did the schools feel that it was necessary to close?
...just wait till next week... I got Friday right... Now Tuesdays...Mwahahaha



ahhaha!
Strange page break ruined my evil laugh!
Mwahahahaahhaha.
That's much better!
I wasn't important - we all shuddered involuntarily after the first evil laugh.

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ImpeturbableLawrence says...
5:37pm Fri 18 Jan 13

Laura has mentioned a child from High Crest who has fallen down and been injured. I wonder what people like Sid and retchub would say if schools were to insist on keeping all the kids in until the usual closing time and they took two hours to get home – worried parents would complain and some posters here might say the teachers were lacking in commonsense not to let them go early.

(Anyway Highcrest is a only re-revamped secondary modern school so it’s not that important if they lose a bit more education.)

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ImpeturbableLawrence says...
5:57pm Fri 18 Jan 13

ImpeturbableLawrence wrote:
Mr Totterdge Hill wrote:
Mr Totterdge Hill wrote:
Mr Totterdge Hill wrote:
allrightnow2 wrote:
BOOKERite wrote:
lady Ratz wrote:
retchub wrote:
any excuse for the 'poor'' teachers to go home . what would happen if doctors ,nurses. fire services etc took this action???? the roads are perfectly ok !!!!!
Well said.
I agree with you lady Ratz.
Except that the teachers were the last to go home at my local school. Partly because they had to wait for all the children to go (and not all were picked up early) and partly because this was all just due to panic about the children being safe on site and getting home safely thanks to Health and Safety. Therefore many teachers stayed on to do some paperwork. What I don't understand is if the bus routes were all still running (which they were) and there was no threat to them (which there wasn't) then why did the schools feel that it was necessary to close?
...just wait till next week... I got Friday right... Now Tuesdays...Mwahahaha




ahhaha!
Strange page break ruined my evil laugh!
Mwahahahaahhaha.
That's much better!
I wasn't important - we all shuddered involuntarily after the first evil laugh.
*It wasn't ...*

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Lauraforgodssake says...
9:44pm Fri 18 Jan 13

Actually she did not fall down she was hit by a car that lost control in the snow! Regardless of what school it is all children have the right to be protected against unnecessary dangers.

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