The UK is considering closing schools for two days.
The UK is considering closing schools for Monday and Tuesday due to health and safety concerns over scorching temperatures.
It comes after the Metropolitan Office issued a red extreme heat warning for the first time, as experts predict potentially record-breaking heat that could break the 40C barrier.
One warned that the alert “should be treated as seriously as a hurricane forecast.”
Alan Roe, high school principal Dr. Challoner in Buckinghamshire, wrote to parents on Friday to say that ‘due to the worsening weather forecast and the red weather alert (which was amber this morning), we have decided to close school on Monday and on Tuesday for health and safety reasons”.
He added that the school will open as planned on Wednesday morning and close for the year at noon.
“Many of our classrooms are very uncomfortable when temperatures are in the mid-20s,” Roe continued.
Costello School in Hampshire has written to parents to state that following “extreme temperatures forecast for Monday and Tuesday next week we have taken the difficult decision to close the school on these days”.
Altwood Church of England School in Maidenhead announced it would be closed on Monday and Tuesday due to the ‘extreme heat’, as was Three Rivers Academy in Surrey.
Kemnal College of Technology in Bomley, London, wrote to parents to say that under the guidance of its trust and the Department for Education, “we have taken the unprecedented decision to close the school and ask students and staff to work from a distance”.