Many schools have been reporting innovative ways to use the snow. Here are a few examples from the TESS and schools local to GFL:

Devon: ‘Snow has become a teaching resource at the school, with pupils producing poetry, artwork and using it for science lessons’

Bolton: One school which had to remain closed conducted an online whole-school writing project about a melting snowman, plus Year 6s measured the snow and others focussed on descriptive vocabulary.

Norfolk: ‘The playground was too slippery for the children to play on, but the field was fine. By gritting the pathways the children could get to the field to play….there was also an outdoor maths lesson for the Year 1 and 2 children, who made snowballs and used them to practise counting in twos’

Aberdeenshire: Glow inspired a snowed-in teacher/co-ordinator to set children various snow-related tasks remotely:
 ’She had hoped to ask them to measure the depth of the snow using their wellies as a marker. However, a trip into her own garden revealed that even adult wellies were not high enough. Refusing to be thwarted, she has now tweaked the challenge; pupils must come up with their own method of measuring how deep the snow on their doorstep is and to find out how long it takes to fill a cup with falling snow. They are then asked to weigh the snow and see if they get different volumes at different times of day. If they do, they have to put forward their theories as to why that might be’. Children are also being encouraged to write weather reports and keep snow journals to bring on their descriptive language. Eventually, this may lead to poetry writing’. ‘There is a competition to see who can take the best close-up photograph of a snow flake, who can build the best snowman and who can find the longest icicle’

Clackmannanshire: Muckhart Primary had so much snow they built a life sized igloo!