Failure to plan for rising temperatures has left UK’s schools sweltering

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1. Will schools close as temperatures hit 38C in the June heatwave? | Independent

2. 'Heat emergency' shuts more than 500 schools in Wales amid red weather warning | BBC

3. Hundreds of schools in England and Wales to close in heatwave | The Guardian

4. Schools shut in two counties due to hot weather | BBC

5. Parents fund aircon for schools as UK heatwave forces classes to end early | Financial Times

To see the UK’s failure to plan for the impacts of climate crisis, look no further than Beaconsfield primary school in west London – where a building more than 100 years old copes with extreme temperatures better than its neighbour, built less than 10 years ago.