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Severe Weather Protocol
08 January 2009
There is always a degree of confusion when severe weather strikes about whether or not children should be sent to school.
With a school such as BHSG whose pupils come from a wide area this is exacerbated by the fact that weather conditions can vary greatly across our catchment area.
This severe weather protocol has been drawn up to help reduce this confusion.
- Whatever the weather, the School will be open for pupils. Depending on the effect of the weather on the ability of staff to get into work, there may be a change to timetabled lessons but the School will be open.
- Parents will need to satisfy themselves that it is safe for their child to travel to school. However, in Bedfordshire it is extremely unusual for the main roads to be impassable if caution is exercised. Parents of pupils who travel to school by public transport or on transport organised by the Bus Associations will need to check with the operator of the service.
- The School will only close if the weather is severe enough to significantly endanger the health, safety or welfare of pupils such as heating or electrical systems being severely disrupted or structural damage being caused to buildings.
- If events overnight mean that the School cannot open, then this information will be posted on the School's website by 7.15am. As noted above, this will only happen in the most extreme circumstances.
Peter Tyldesley, Bursar
