Schools - not out for summer

Learning together: Teachers and pupils from Rokeby Park Primary in west Hull held classes at Priory Primary after their school flooded. In this photo, supplied by Chris Smith, head teacher of Priory Primary, children from both schools show that flooding did not get them down

Head teachers will be working round-the-clock throughout the summer holidays to ensure Hull schools overcome the effects of flooding before the new term begins next month.
The clean up and recovery operation began as soon as the flood waters subsided, and the summer holidays are being seen as an opportunity to take stock and plan for the year ahead.
Only eight of the city's 99 schools were unaffected by the adverse weather, and more than 650 tonnes of flood-damaged school equipment had to be thrown out.
"Nobody could have foreseen the extent of the devastation," said Alan Chaffey, head teacher of Pearson Primary School and chairman of the Hull Association of Primary Heads.
"The damage in some schools was heartbreaking and for this reason head teachers and all other school staff have worked round the clock to overcome the effects of the flood.
"Head teachers are part of a close-knit community – all they have to do is pick up the phone and other schools will do everything in their power to help."
The same spirit of co-operation carried Hull's secondary schools through the aftermath of the flooding to the summer break.
By the end of last term, only Sydney Smith School in west Hull remained closed.
A number of secondary schools also took in primary school children and their teachers from schools which had been severely damaged.
"Teachers and pupils rolled up their sleeves and simply got on with it," said Steve Liddle, head teacher of Winifred Holtby School, Bransholme, and chairman of the Hull Association of Secondary Heads.
"All head teachers are planning for the September term and we will do all we can to put the flooding behind us."