{"id":47939,"date":"2024-11-18T12:07:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T12:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birkwood.org.uk\/website\/?page_id=47939"},"modified":"2024-11-18T12:08:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T12:08:11","slug":"adverse-weather","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.birkwood.org.uk\/website\/adverse-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Adverse Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"s2\">Winter weather <\/span><span class=\"s2\">can cause serious disruption.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s2\">We will endeavour to open the school every day to make sure that children and their learning come first.\u00a0 However, if the School\u2019s Leadership Team feels that the weather would put <\/span><span class=\"s2\">anyone<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> at risk, we will take appropriate steps to minimise <\/span><span class=\"s2\">this<\/span><span class=\"s2\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s2\">The steps taken may include:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"s4\"><span class=\"s3\">\u2022 <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Opening school as normal whilst <\/span><span class=\"s2\">allowing later or <\/span><span class=\"s2\">delay<\/span><span class=\"s2\">ed<\/span> <span class=\"s2\">registration.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"s4\"><span class=\"s3\">\u2022 <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Closing the school when it is not safe to open.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"s2\">We take <\/span><span class=\"s2\">a number of<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> factors into consideration when making any decision relating to school opening\/closure including:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"s4\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"s3\">\u2022 <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Current weather conditions<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> &amp; safety of our <\/span><span class=\"s2\">School<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> site.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"s4\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"s3\">\u2022 <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Use of Weather <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Forecast<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> to evaluate<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> conditions up to school<\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u2019s<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> closing times<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"s4\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"s3\">\u2022 <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Availability of staff<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"s4\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"s3\">\u2022 <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Availability of key non-teaching staff (premises and catering)<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"s6\"><span class=\"s5\">There are <\/span><span class=\"s5\">various<\/span><span class=\"s5\"> ways<\/span><span class=\"s5\"> that<\/span><span class=\"s5\"> you can find out about our decision if we decide to close:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"s4\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">1. <span class=\"s2\">The closure will be sent to all families by Text Message <\/span><span class=\"s2\">so please <\/span><span class=\"s2\">en<\/span><span class=\"s2\">sure <\/span><span class=\"s2\">that <\/span><span class=\"s2\">we have your <\/span><span class=\"s5\">current<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> number, (sometimes when the service is busy it can take a while for the messages to\u00a0be delivered to <\/span><span class=\"s2\">your phone<\/span><span class=\"s2\">.<\/span><span class=\"s2\">)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"s7\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">2. <span class=\"s2\">The closure will be announced on our website<\/span><span class=\"s2\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"s7\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">3. <span class=\"s2\">The closure will be announced on our X (formerly Twitter) Page<\/span><span class=\"s2\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"s7\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">4. <span class=\"s2\">The closure will be emailed to all families (as with the Newsletter each week<\/span><span class=\"s2\">.<\/span><span class=\"s2\">)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"s7\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">5. <span class=\"s2\">The closure will be announced on the Barnsley Council School Closure Website<\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnsley.gov.uk\/services\/schools-and-education\/schools-currently-closed\/\"><span class=\"s8\">https:\/\/www.barnsley.gov.uk\/services\/schools-and-education\/schools-currently-closed\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"s6\"><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s5\">We would <\/span><span class=\"s5\">politely <\/span><span class=\"s5\">ask all families to share any closure with friends etc. should one occur.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s2\">If it does snow <\/span><span class=\"s2\">and<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> we feel that it is still safe to open<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> school<\/span><span class=\"s2\">, please send your child(ren) in suitable clothing<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> (and with a change of clothing)<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> so that they can make the most of the weather and go outside <\/span><span class=\"s2\">and<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> play during the day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter weather can cause serious disruption. We will endeavour to open the school every day to make sure that children and their learning come first.\u00a0 However, if the School\u2019s Leadership Team feels that the weather would put anyone at risk, we will take appropriate steps to minimise this. The steps taken may include: \u2022 Opening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-47939","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3magh-ctd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birkwood.org.uk\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birkwood.org.uk\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birkwood.org.uk\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birkwood.org.uk\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birkwood.org.uk\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47939"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.birkwood.org.uk\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47942,"href":"https:\/\/www.birkwood.org.uk\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47939\/revisions\/47942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birkwood.org.uk\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}