Trying to stay afloat: schools face months of upheaval after UK floods
by Sally Ashworth from on (#10JBS)
Lost coursework, homeless students and portacabin classrooms - schools in the Calder Valley and Cumbria get to grips with the devastation caused by flooding
It was anything with a child's name on it that headteacher Clare Cope found hardest to deal with: exercise books, little PE bags, violin cases - all covered in a thick, black, smelly sludge.
"We walked around and we couldn't believe it," says Cope, who works at Burnley Road Academy in Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire. "I thought a couple of inches of water might have got in, but it was so much worse than that - just total devastation."
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