Tunstall Snow forced School Closures Jan 19th 2013
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More schools may close closer to opening time if enough staff can't make it in
CLOSED Whitfield Valley Primary Stoke-On-Trent Jan 18 06:58
CLOSED Ormiston Horizon Academy Tunstall, Stoke on Trent Jan 18 07:46
Burtnwood Nursery School Chell Heath, Stoke on Trent
Middlehurst Special School Chell Heath, Stoke on Trent
St Marys CE Primary School Tunstall, Stoke on Trent
Summer Bank Primary Tunstall
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Stoke on Trent college open
Stoke on Trent college open as normal
Why the hell is Summer Bank
Why the hell is Summer Bank Primary closed! I can understand schools in Mow Cop and Brown Edge, but some where that's flat and with a passable road...
I to have just read the
I to have just read the signal closue list and can't believe that Summerbank is closed, no excuse!
It is getting bad out there,
It is getting bad out there, maybe they based their assement on the full day not just rush hour
I take it all back
I take it all back Summerbank, great insight. Just wish more Heads would read the weather forcast, and not see "how it is in the morning"
Pupil attendance is one of
Pupil attendance is one of the measured for OFSTEAD. So the more kids off the more they more of a crap rating they get.
great fun on the way back
great fun on the way back from GPS - buggy in one hand and sledge in the other - got a thank you when got home as well so was worth the effort
What were the roads like Rach
What were the roads like Rach when you came?
Going up RMW was stuffed,
Going up RMW was stuffed, coming down not too bad, James brindley looked interesting, Kidsgrove bank looked ok at the bottom.
Richard now heading to Chesteron (due to work alarm going) then up to Packmoor so will get more of a road update when they come back.
Roads were pretty bad when I
Roads were pretty bad when I was coming home at about 3pm. It looked like the council hadn't ploughed or gritted at all. The wheels on my car locked up when I braked going down Ford Green Road from Norton in the Moors and I skidded about 15 feet and into a bus stop. Absolute tosh. High Lane was bad too and I was wheel spinning and skidding going up bank at the staggered junction of High Lane, Little Chell Lane and Spring Bank Road. I've never skidded going up bank before! Proper scary moment. JBW and RMW were passable but not perfect, and even the firemen were clearing snow out of the yellow box outside the fire station and were gritting it because the council hadn't done it!
Oh and there's a very obvious
Oh and there's a very obvious difference between gritting standards of Stoke on Trent City Council and Staffordshire County Council. Just drive out through Endon towards Leek on the A53 and you'll see a massive difference. I was even able to use country lanes from Leek to Endon because they had been gritted but as soon as I got into Endon, everything just got worse.
Can't remember school being
Can't remember school being closed when it snowed when I wa a kid in the 50s/60s?
Also don't remember the panic when a little bit of snow fell.
Radio an TV is making it out like the apocalypse.
Have we all been turned into wussys?
One question for you Terry
One question for you Terry (not being agest ;) ) when you was a little un, did your mum and dad drive?
Also, how far did you have to travel?
Because this is the age of the car people are travelling greater distances + there's more of us.
But you've also got a point, we are going soft.
Matt I travelled from
Matt I travelled from Bucknall to Birches Head every day, a distance of roughly three miles (unless we went along the railway lines and across a farmers field , till he put a bloody big bull in there that we believed was faster than us ) Dad would have been in work at school time so there was no chance of a lift.
When we arrived we usually were allowed to keep our coats on in the class if the heating was down.
There was times when we were freezing but if you complained the teachers would warm your hands with the cane.
Anyway we thought it was great to have snowball fights in the playground.
I went to school till 1965 and we saw some bad winters.
Yeah it was a long time ago and my kids think I'm on about the same time as Fagan was around lol.
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