Schools are planning non-uniform days, keeping pupils inside at breaktime and finishing early to cope with next week’s extreme heatwave, as the Department for Education advises against closures.
The Met Office has issued an amber warning for extreme heat across large parts of England between Sunday and Tuesday, with temperatures potentially soaring past 35C in the southeast.
Several schools across the country have already issued their own plans for Monday and Tuesday, with the DfE emphasising that individual school leaders are “responsible for their own local circumstances”.
