Schools closed in Waterford?

Grindylow

Hey, does anyone know if any schools in waterford county are closed? Specifically St. Declans in Kilmacthomas? :pac:

Mossy Monk

Why would they be closed?

Grindylow

Well considering its snowing here with hours, and that most of the teachers in St. Declans come from places outside of waterford, wouldn't it make it very hard for them to get down?

paddypender

De la salle is closed anyway

Mossy Monk

Noel2k9 wrote: »

Well considering its snowing here with hours, and that most of the teachers in St. Declans come from places outside of waterford, wouldn't it make it very hard for them to get down?

Lovely. I am looking forward to my drive home this evening even more.

JohnC.

They were not due to reopen until tomorrow anyway, AFAIK.

Mossy Monk

All schools in Waterford will be open according to this

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0106/schools.html

Paige Turner

De la Salle definitely closed, college sent out texts earlier.

melly2010

does any 1 no if waterford youthreach is open 2moz ?:o

snuggles09

Paige Turner wrote: »

De la Salle definitely closed, college sent out texts earlier.

is that primary or secondary? or both do you know?

pp_me129

Does anyone know if waterpark secondary school is open?

AdMMM

Ring WLR in the morning as all principals will notify them if their schools are open or closed. They'll announce it on-air but just in case you miss it.

WLR FM
The Broadcast Centre,
Ardkeen,
Waterford City.
Tel: 051- 872248
Fax: 051-846148
Email: reception@wlrfm.com

decies

Just heard from ursuline secondary teacher .school is closed in the city tomorrow.

deisemum

Ballygunner N.S. is closed until Monday. School sent text message to parents.

snuggles09

decies wrote: »

Just heard from ursuline secondary teacher .school is closed in the city tomorrow.

all the schools in the city are closed? i got a call from a friend there who said her mother heard on wlrfm that the mercy was closed but i'm trying to ring wlr now to find out and can't get through

Mossy Monk

WLR FM seem to be reading out a lengthy list of all the schools in the city and county. Heard it twice on the way home so they will probably call it out again.

Diver79

St Pauls Community College confirmed as closed on rte.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0106/schools.html

Paige Turner

snuggles09 wrote: »

is that primary or secondary? or both do you know?

I only know that the secondary is closed, if I hear anything about the primary before the morning I will let you know.

gav2k10

waterpark secondry school is closed

Aquos76

Mercy Primary OPEN
Mercy Secondary CLOSED
Mount Sion Secondary CLOSED
Ferrybank Girls OPEN
Abbey College CLOSED
Presentation Secondary CLOSED
Waterpark Primary OPEN
Ursline Secondary CLOSED
De La Salle Secondary CLOSED
Ballygunner N S CLOSED
St Pauls Secondary CLOSED



All read out on WLRfm in the last few mins

sillysocks

Wheres the sense in closing the city secondary schools, but not the primary schools? Wouldnt a 15 year old be able for an icey path more than a 7 year old?

snuggles09

sillysocks wrote: »

Wheres the sense in closing the city secondary schools, but not the primary schools? Wouldnt a 15 year old be able for an icey path more than a 7 year old?

thats ridiculous that the mercy primary is open when the secondary is closed..they are next door to each other on the same entrance nearly!makes no sence..I'd say the primary just hasn't given word yet.i doubt it'll be open

Hartyk87

That has just made my day/night, no college for me in the morning!!

Diver79

St Pauls primary closed..

Odats

snuggles09 wrote: »

thats ridiculous that the mercy primary is open when the secondary is closed..they are next door to each other on the same entrance nearly!makes no sence..I'd say the primary just hasn't given word yet.i doubt it'll be open

That's because the Secondary caters for a bigger catchment area including South Kilkenny,Kilmeaden,Butlerstown etc where as the primary would be mostly local surrounding areas.

Black Dog

snuggles09 wrote: »

thats ridiculous that the mercy primary is open when the secondary is closed..they are next door to each other on the same entrance nearly!makes no sence..I'd say the primary just hasn't given word yet.i doubt it'll be open

The decision to open or close might well be based on whether or not the staff could reach the school rather than being based on the children's ability to arrive.

snuggles09

Black Dog wrote: »

The decision to open or close might well be based on whether or not the staff could reach the school rather than being based on the children's ability to arrive.

I dropped both my girls in to school and their teachers were out they are now in other classes doing nothing all day. i should have kept them home:(

Hells Belle

anyone with kiddies in Waterpark have to collect them as per WLRFM.ie:

Waterpark School Has Rung To Say Due To The Water Supply Into The School Has Now Frozen He Will Have To Close The School And The Parents Are Asked To Collect Their Children - The School Will Remian Closed Tomorrow.*

*I didn't type this btw lol, I hope the Principal didn't either!

deisemum

Hells Belle wrote: »

anyone with kiddies in Waterpark have to collect them as per WLRFM.ie:

Waterpark School Has Rung To Say Due To The Water Supply Into The School Has Now Frozen He Will Have To Close The School And The Parents Are Asked To Collect Their Children - The School Will Remian Closed Tomorrow.*

*I didn't type this btw lol, I hope the Principal didn't either!

The Principal of Waterpark primary school was interviewed by Billy McCarthy and admitted that it was 7am this morning when he became aware that the pipes were frozen. Plenty of time to notify parents rather than have them trek to school, accept them and then at 9.45am decide to close the school until next Monday and have to notify parents/minders to come back and collect their children. Cop on goes a long way.

ziedth

deisemum wrote: »

The Principal of Waterpark primary school was interviewed by Billy McCarthy and admitted that it was 7am this morning when he became aware that the pipes were frozen. Plenty of time to notify parents rather than have them trek to school, accept them and then at 9.45am decide to close the school until next Monday and have to notify parents/minders to come back and collect their children. Cop on goes a long way.

Well said, you'd wonder what do be going through peoples head sometimes.

Hells Belle

yeah thats annoying alright, the poor kids being dragged out in this cold and then sent home.

Although better they are safe then have a ceiling collapse on them or something, that happened over the holidays in a school up the country, a ceiling actually fell down when the principal was inspecting the place, doesn't bear thinking about :eek:

deisemum

It may be a case of misplaced "pride" at trying to one of the few who wanted to say they kept their school open.

deisemum

De La Salle and Ballygunner NS are re-opening tomorrow due to improved weather and road conditions. Boys not happy

ziedth

Ha Ha, tell them it could be worse. They could be working in cork and not after getting any time off.

colf

Just wondering if anyone has heard if they are re opening today. Mount Sion Primary in particular. I know they said on WLR last night both primary and secondary are open but they also said they can change if need be too. Thanks

summer10

Following the Minister's announcement about all schools to close until Thursday 14th next, Does this mean the city schools will close whether or not the weather is as bad as they say it's going to get next week... a few of the junior schools were open yesterday and today...

deisemum

Yep they're all closed

Trotter

summer10 wrote: »

Following the Minister's announcement about all schools to close until Thursday 14th next, Does this mean the city schools will close whether or not the weather is as bad as they say it's going to get next week... a few of the junior schools were open yesterday and today...

Yep. All schools closed. Up to today, individual schools were making the decisions.

araic88

deisemum wrote: »

The Principal of Waterpark primary school was interviewed by Billy McCarthy and admitted that it was 7am this morning when he became aware that the pipes were frozen. Plenty of time to notify parents rather than have them trek to school, accept them and then at 9.45am decide to close the school until next Monday and have to notify parents/minders to come back and collect their children. Cop on goes a long way.

Didn't hear the interview or know anybody in the school or anything about frozen pipes... but maybe they were trying to solve the problem before hastily closing the school? My mammy's a principal and was so stressed about the open/close decision for Thursday. It's not a small thing to just close the school in the morning when parents have to work etc. She decided to open and lucklily all was fine...though a few teachers had 4 kids out of 20!!!

mike65

Schools back tomorrow if its considered safe locally, according to media.

deisemum

I'm just waiting on the text messages from the schools my boys attend. I'm sure they'll be in.

Aquos76

full list of schools open and closed can be found from here

http://twitter.com/wlrfm

jimbojazz

Anyone know if St. Declan's (at the park) is open or closed. No mention on WLR or on the schools webpage. It was the same last week they were one of the last to inform us.

Aquos76

Also still no mention of Ferrybank boys & girls schools

kayaksurfbum

Aquos76 wrote: »

Also still no mention of Ferrybank boys & girls schools

Girls primary is closed tomorrow. Open Wednesday.

jimbojazz

Re: St. Declans

http://www.stdeclansns.com/officelatestnews.htm

snuggles09

Mercy Primary is open but the secondary is closed

deisemum

Got the text message from De La Salle, no school tomorrow and tomorrow they'll decide on Wednesday.

Haven't had a text from Ballygunner and it's normally very quick to text info.

Fishy1

Hi,
Ballygunner is open tomorrow. See this link to list of schools opening/closed tomorrow.