UPDATED 5.25pm: Only Sinfin pupils in year 11 in lessons tomorrow
MOST pupils at Sinfin Community School will get a fourth day's extra break on Thursday.
Problems with the school's biomass boiler resulted in head teacher Steve Monks failing to re-open the school on Monday.
He said: "We are still without full heating but we will be able to get year 11 pupils in tomorrow and then see what happens for Friday."
Pupils in years 10 and 11 were able to take part in pre-arranged off-site sessions today.
These schools were closed on Wednesday because of the bad weather:
- Albert Village Primary School
- Aldercar Community Language College
- Aldercar Infant School
- Alfreton Grange Arts College
- Alfreton Nursery School
- Alfreton Park Community Special School
- Ambergate Primary School
- Anthony Gell School, Wirksworth
- Ashbrook Junior School
- Ashgate Croft School
- Ashgate Primary School, Derby
- Bakewell C of E Infant
- Bakewell Methodist Junior
- Belvedere Junior, Burton
- Bennerley Fields School
- Biggin C of E Primary
- Bishop Pursglove C of E Primary
- Bolsover School
- Borrow Wood Junior school
- Brackenfield Special School, Long Eaton
- Bramley Vale Primary
- Breadsall C of E Primary
- Brigg Infant
- Carsington and Hopton Primary
- Chapel-en-le Frith High School
- Chapel-en-le-Frith Primary School
- Chaucer Infant School
- Chaucer Junior School
- Chesterfield College
- Christ the King, Alfreton
- Clifton Primary, Ashbourne
- Codnor Primary School
- Combs Infant
- Copthorne Infant School
- Cotmanhay Infant School
- Cotmanhay Junior School
- Creswell Junior School
- Crich C of E Infant
- Crich Junior School
- Croft Infant School, Alfreton
- Curzon C of E Primary, Quarndon
- Dallimore Primary School
- Dame Catherine Harpur, Ticknall
- Darley Dale Primary
- Deincourt School
- Denby Free School
- Draycott Primary School
- Eckington School
- Edale C of E Primary
- Edge Hill, Stapenhill
- Elton C of E Primary School
- Eyam Primary School
- Field House Infant, Ilkeston
- Firfield Primary School
- Fitzherbert C of E Primary School, Fenny Bentley
- Frederick Gent School
- Friesland School
- Fritchley C of E Primary
- Glebe Junior School
- Granby Junior, Ilkeston
- Grindleford Primary
- Hady Primary School - opening at 10am
- Hallam Fields Junior
- Hartington C of E Primary
- Hasland Hall Community School
- Heage Primary School
- Heanor Gate Science College
- Heritage School
- Highfields School
- Hilltop Infant School, Ashbourne
- Hind Leys College
- Hodthorpe Primary
- Holbrook School For Autism
- Horsley Woodhouse Primary
- Hollinsclough C of E Primary
- Hope Valley College
- Ilkeston School
- Ironville and Codnor Primary School
- Ivy House Special School, Littleover
- John Port School
- Lady Manners School
- Langley Infant School
- Langley Mill Junior
- Langwith Bassett Primary
- Larklands Infant School
- Lea Primary School
- Long Eaton School
- Long Lane C of E Primary
- Longstone Primary School
- Longwood Infant school
- Loscoe C of E Primary
- Manifold C of E primary
- Mapperley C of E Primary
- Marlpool Infant School
- Marlpool Junior School
- Marston Montgomery Primary
- Matlock All Saint's Infant School
- Matlock Bath Holy Trinity C of E Primary
- Meadow Farm Primary
- Mickley Infant School
- Mill Hill School
- Morton Primary School
- Monyash Primary
- Netherseal St Peter's C of E Primary
- Netherthorpe School
- Newbold Cof E Primary School
- New Mills College
- Newton primary School
- Noel-Baker Community School
- Norbury Primary School
- Osmaston C of E Primary
- Park Infant, Shirebrook
- Park Junior, Shirebrook
- Parkside Junior, Ashbourne
- Parwich Primary School
- Picknalls First School Uttoxeter
- Pilsley Primary School
- Pinxton Kirkstead Junior School
- Pinxton Nursery School
- Pottery Primary, Belper
- Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School Ashbourne
- Redhill Primary, Ockbrook
- Redwood Infant
- Reigate Primary
- Riddings Infant
- Riddings Junior
- Ripley Infant
- Ripley Junior
- Sandiacre Cloudside Primary
- Sawley Infant
- Sawley Junior
- Scarcliffe Primary School
- Shirebrook School
- Sinfin Community School
- Somercotes Infant
- Somerlea Park Junior School
- South Darley Primary
- South East Derbyshire College
- South Normanton Nursery
- South Wingfield Primary
- Springwell Community School closed to students but open for staff from 10.30am
- St Anne's C of E Primary, Baslow
- St Benedict Catholic School
- St Elizabeth's Catholic Primary, Belper
- St Giles C of E Primary School Killamarsh
- St John Houghton Catholic School
- St John's Primary School, Belper
- St John's Primary, Ripley
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary, Matlock
- St Mary's Catholic High School Chesterfield
- St Modwen's Catholic Primary School, Burton
- St Oswalds C of E Infant School
- St Thomas Catholic, Ilkeston
- Stanton-in-Peak Primary
- Stonebroom Primary
- Street Lane Primary, Denby
- Stretton Handley C of E Primary
- Swanwick Hall School
- Swanwick Primary - staff only
- Swanwick School and Sports College
- Taddington and Priestcliffe Primary
- Tibshelf Infant And Nursery School
- Tibshelf School
- Tupton Hall School
- Tupton Primary School
- Waingroves Primary School
- Wessington Primary
- Wilsthorpe Business and Enterprise College, Long Eaton
- Wirksworth C of E Infant
- Wirksworth Infant School
- Wirksworth Junior School
- Woodbridge Junior School
- Youlgreave All Saints C of E Primary School
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by Chris, Derby
Wednesday, January 06 2010, 3:59PM
“Also as to keeping warm, we would wear two sweaters, a woolly hat, gloves and two pairs of trousers.
My father waslate for work on a morning during that cold 1963 winter and he was threatened with the sack because he had taken time to walk us to school for 8:00am - so employers were still living in a Victorian England during the 1960s.
And we had dicipline at schools so teachers could control a class of 35 without any serious problems.”
by Chris, Derby
Wednesday, January 06 2010, 3:52PM
“It looks like most of the schools that are closing are in remote villages and towns. I suppose it is no longer viable for teaching staff to live locally due to high house prices in these remote areas. In earlier years the staff would have lived locally, some even in houses owned by the local board schools (schools governed by a school board, not "boarding schools").
However, no matter how much Earnest mocks those of us over 50, the sad fact is we were a much hardier crowd in those days when we had 35 children to a class and the coldest of winters failed to prevent us from spending a day at school, with only a 2 bar electric heater to keep us all warm.
During that winter of 1963 only 3 families on my street had a car, and that was used by the father of the family, all the kids had to walk to school (I walked just over a mile every day) through 4 or 5 foot of snow, up to my eyes in some places! During that winter of 1963. Harvey Road had several snowdrifts of up to 15 feet in height on the roadside.
It was fun at the time and we had time to build some very large snowmen on the way home, also school finished at 4:30pm not 3 or 3:30pm.”
by Mr Bronson, Denby
Wednesday, January 06 2010, 3:49PM
“I'm surprised nobody has blamed either the council, immigration or the government yet.”
by THE REAL voice of reason, Derby
Wednesday, January 06 2010, 3:43PM
“Outsider - it's not teachers in isolation, anyone who appears in the DT appears to be ripe for a verbal kicking from "some quarters".”
by The Outsider, Ashbourne
Wednesday, January 06 2010, 3:29PM
“Why on earth does everyone take such delight in knocking teachers. My next door neighbours are a sales executive and a lorry driver and they are both, quite reasonably under the circumstances, off work today, the former having been advised to go home yesterday. Times have changed, we no longer send children up chimneys and we have established a concept of satisfactory working conditions Most sane folk, not including the inexplicably named VoR, would acknowledge this as progress rather than bleet on and on about how it used to be.”