Headteachers are seeing around a third of pupils absent from school as parents choose to keep children home during the hottest days forecast in the UK’s heatwave.
A number of schools are teaching remotely on Monday and Tuesday, when the Met Office is forecasting temperatures to soar into the high 30C and potentially even reach 40C for the first time.
Many are staying open in the scorching weather, with measures being introduced to keep children cool such as ditching normal uniform - either for PE kits or own clothes - or letting them go home early.
