Emergency Snow Procedure

Yesterday (Tuesday) saw my first day off from school caused by SNOW. It wasn't a problem here in Warrington, but any blippers who live up near Bury, Bolton, Rochdale etc will know the chaos that 2 inches of snow caused to the whole transport network yesterday morning. I got a phone call whilst stuck in traffic to say "we're closing school, there's 9 staff here, no-one else can get near, turn round and go home" - so I did - and felt guilty about it all day! Marked all my coursework though.

To be fair, when I got to school today and there was a good 3 inches of snow on the car park and the minor road into our school was literally 1inch thick with hard ice, I can see why yesterday it was carnage. And even today, the gritting wagon has not been along the road that our school is on. Good innit?!?!?

At Senior team meeting today we spent half an hour drawing up an emergency snow procedure (oh yes - high brow stuff!) because there is heavy snow forecast for tonight up here and weather warnings from the Met Office. Rochdale schools have (apparently) already decided to close.

The snow procedure is not as daft as it sounds - a significant number of staff were caught in massive traffic jams yesterday and spent up to 4 hours in their cars to find that school was closed anyway. So to avoid that tomorrow, if the snow should appear, we have a clear plan of attack involving a cascade system of phone calls, starting with the head, cascading to the rest of us 'senior' staff (I'm too young to be referred to as Senior!) and then out to the rest of the staff - with the intention of making a decision before staff leave their houses to begin their journeys.

We are kind aren't we!!!

I would blip the whole thing, but it has phone numbers on it!!!!

Fingers crossed - I could get a bonus day at home to mark my mock exams! whoop-de-doo