SNOW-WHERE TO GO

Christmas holidays were over and students from Bolton St Catherine’s Academy were eager to return back to start the Spring term with excitement, only to find that school had to close due to the weather and they had “snow-where” to go! 

The whole country came to a standstill in the first week back after the Christmas holidays. Schools up and down the country were closed because it would not have been safe for staff and pupils to come in.

At Bolton St Catherine’s Academy primary site, the playground, car park and entrance was piled up with snow. Mr Cole managed to get a big JCB tractor so that he could move the snow onto the grass.

It took a long time for the snow to be moved and the school to be made safe enough. Even two weeks after all the snow had melted on the playground, there were still huge piles on the grass verge!

As you can see from the satellite picture taken by NASA, the whole of the United Kingdom was covered by the snow, causing chaos for thousands of people. We had fun though, building snowmen and igloos in our gardens!