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Ice and snow lead to school closures

A number of schools across the region have remained closed today due to snow and ice.

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Walsall Arboretum in the snow. Pic: Steve Kendrick

It comes as minus temperatures overnight left an already snowy West Midlands and Staffordshire with icy surfaces, prompting a yellow warning for ice from The Met Office and pleas from emergency services and local authorities for people to take extra care on the roads.

Schools which have confirmed they will be closed today include:

Wolverhampton:

  • Berrybrook Primary

  • Broadmeadow Special School

  • Bushbury Hill Primary

  • Bushbury Lane Academy

  • Bushbury Nursery

  • Castlecroft Primary

  • Christ Church Infant

  • Christ Churst Junior

  • Coppice

  • D’eyncourt Academy

  • Dovecotes Primary

  • Dunstall Hill Primary

  • East Park Primary

  • Fallings Park Primary

  • Green Park Special School

  • Heath Park

  • Hill Avenue Primary

  • Khalsa Academy

  • Lawnswood Campus

  • Long Knowle

  • Low Hill Nursery

  • Manor Primary

  • Moselep Park

  • Ormiston NEW

  • Parkfield Primary

  • Penn Fields School

  • Penn Hall School

  • Rakegate Primary

  • S.Peter's CoE Academy

  • Smestow School

  • Springdale Primary

  • St Alban's CoE Primary

  • St Bartholomew's CE Primary

  • St Edmund's Catholic Academy

  • St Matthias

  • St Stephen's CE Primary

  • St Thomas' CoE Primary

  • Stowlawn Primary

  • Wednesfield High

  • Westcroft School

  • Windsor Nursery

  • Woden Primary

  • Wolverhampton Vocational Training Centre

  • Woodfield Primary

  • Woodthorne Primary

Sandwell:

  • Abbey Infants

  • Abbey Juniors

  • Albert Pritchard

  • All Saints CofE Primary school

  • Annie Lennard Primary School

  • Blackheath Primary School

  • Brandhall Primary School

  • Brickhouse Primary School

  • Burnt Tree Primary

  • Cape Primary School

  • Causeway Green Primary School

  • Crocketts Community Primary

  • Devonshire Infant Academy and Devonshire Junior Academy

  • Eaton Valley Primary School

  • Ferndale Primary School

  • Galton Valley Primary School

  • George Betts Primary Academy

  • George Salter Academy

  • Glebefields Primary School

  • Grace Mary Primary School

  • Great Bridge Primary School

  • Grove Vale Primary

  • Hall Green Primary School

  • Hamstead Infant School

  • Hamstead Junior School

  • Hanbury Primary School (West Bromwich)

  • Hargate Primary School

  • Harvills Hawthorn Primary School

  • Hateley Heath Primary School

  • Health Futures UTC

  • Highfields Primary School

  • Holly Lodge High School

  • Holy Name Catholic Primary School

  • Holy Trinity CofE Primary School

  • Holyhead Primary Academy

  • Joseph Turner Primary School

  • King George V Primary school

  • Langley Primary School

  • Lodge Primary School

  • Mesty Croft Academy

  • Moat Farm Infant School and Nursery and Lavender Farm

  • Moat Farm Juniors

  • Moorlands Primary

  • Newtown Primary

  • Oakham Primary School

  • Ocker Hill Academy

  • Ocker Hill Infant and Nursery School

  • Old Hill Primary

  • Old Park Primary and The Patch Day Nursery

  • Oldbury Academy

  • Our Lady & St. Hubert’s Catholic Primary School

  • Park Hill Primary School

  • Pennyhill Primary School

  • Perryfields Primary School

  • Primrose Centre

  • Q3 Academy, Great Barr

  • Reddal Hill Primary School

  • Rood End Primary

  • Rounds Green Primary School

  • Rowley Hall Primary

  • RSA Academy

  • Ryders Green Primary School

  • Sacred Heart Primary School

  • Saint John Bosco

  • Shenstone Lodge and The Brades Lodge

  • Shireland Collegiate Academy

  • Shireland Technology Primary School

  • Silvertrees Academy

  • Springfield Primary School

  • St James C E Primary School

  • St Margaret's CE VA Primary School

  • St Martin's CE Primary School

  • St Mary Magdalene C of E Primary School

  • St Matthew's C of E Primary School (Smethwick)

  • St Michael's C of E High School

  • St Paul's C of E Academy Tipton

  • St. Francis Xavier Catholic Primary School

  • St. Gregory’s Catholic Primary School

  • St. John's C of E Primary Academy

  • St. Mary's Catholic Primary School, Wednesbury

  • St. Philip’s Catholic Primary School

  • Stuart Bathurst Catholic High School

  • Tameside Primary Academy

  • Temple Meadow Primary

  • The Meadows

  • The Orchard School

  • The Phoenix Collegiate

  • The Priory Primary School (Wednesbury)

  • The Westminster School

  • Tipton Green Junor School

  • Tividale Community Primary

  • Tividale Hall Primary School

  • Uplands Manor Primary School

  • Wednesbury Oak Academy

  • West Bromwich Collegiate Academy

  • Whitecrest Primary

  • Wood Green Academy

  • Wood Green Junior

  • Yew Tree Primary School

Wyre Forest:

  • Baxter College, Kidderminster

  • Bayton CE Primary School, Bewdley

  • Beaconside Primary & Nursery School, Rubery

  • Belbroughton CE Primary School, Hagley

  • Birchen Coppice Academy, Kidderminster

  • Blakedown CE Primary School, Hagley

  • Burlish Park Primary School, Stourport

  • Clent Parochial Primary School, Hagley

  • Comberton Primary School, Kidderminster

  • Cookley Sebright Primary School, Kidderminster

  • Far Forest Lea Memorial CE Primary School, Bewdley

  • Foley Park Community Primary School, Kidderminster

  • Franche Community Primary School, Kidderminster

  • Hagley Catholic High School, Hagley

  • Hagley Primary School, Hagley

  • Hartlebury CE Primary School, Stourport

  • Haybrigdge High School and Sixth Form, Hagley

  • Heronswood Primary School, Kidderminster

  • Holywell Primary & Nursery School, Rubery

  • Lickey Hills Primary School, Rubery

  • Lickhill Primary School, Stourport

  • Offmore Primary School, Kidderminster

  • St Ambrose's Catholic Primary School, Kidderminster

  • St Anne's CE Primary School, Bewdley

  • St Bartholomew's CE Primary School, Stourport

  • St George's CofE School, Kidderminster

  • S Kenelm's CE Primary School, Hagley

  • St Mary's CE Primary School, Kidderminster

  • St Oswald's CE Primary School, Kidderminster

  • St Wulstan's Catholic Primary School, Stourport

  • Stourport Primary School, Stourport

  • The Bewdley School, Bewdley

  • The Stourport High School & VI Form College, Stourport

  • Waseley Hills High School, Rubery

  • Wilden All Saints' CE Primary School, Stourport

  • Wolverley CE Secondary School, Kidderminster

  • Wolverley Sebright Primary School, Kidderminster

  • Wyre Forest School, Kidderminster

Dudley:

  • Pedmore CE Primary School

  • Quarry Bank Primary School

  • St James’s CE primary school, Wollaston

  • Caslon Primary School

  • Halesowen C of E Primary

  • St Margarets at Hasbury Primary

  • Newfield Park Primary School

  • Howley Grange Primary

  • Woodsetton School

  • St Joseph's Catholic Primary School (Stourbridge)

  • Amblecote Primary School

  • Withymoor School, Brierley Hill

  • Rufford Primary School

  • Glynne Primary School, Dudley

  • Gig Mill Primary School

  • St Joseph’s Catholic Primary, Dudley

  • St Chad’s Catholic Primary School, Sedgley

  • Wollescote Primary School

  • Manor Way Primary School

  • Cradley CofE Primary School

  • Tenterfields Primary Academy

  • Olive Hill Primary Academy

  • Northfield Road Primary School

  • St Mark’s C of E Primary School

  • Fairhaven Primary School

  • Newfield Park Primary School

  • Windsor High School and Sixth Form

  • Queen Victoria Primary School

  • Hob Green Primary School

  • The Ridge Primary School

  • Kingswinford Academy

  • Oldswinford CE Primary School

  • Brook Primary School

  • Thorns Primary School

  • Netherton C of E Primary

  • Ridgewood High School

  • Lapal Primary School

  • Northfield Road Primary School will remain closed on 26 January due to localised flooding.

Staffordshire:

  • All Saints C.E Primary School, Ranton

  • Alleyne's Academy, Stone

  • Berkswich CE(VC) Primary School, Stafford

  • Bilbrook CE(VC) Middle School

  • Bishop Lonsdale CE Primary Academy

  • Bridgtown Primary School

  • Chadsmead Primary Academy

  • Chadsmoor CE(VC) Junior School

  • Chadsmoor Community Infant and Nursery School

  • Chancel Primary School

  • Charnwood Primary School, Lichfield

  • Chase Terrace Primary School

  • Chase View Community Primary School

  • Chaselea PRU

  • Chasetown Community School

  • Cherry Trees School

  • Christ Church Academy, Stone

  • Christ Church CE First School, Stone

  • Christ Church Primary School

  • Church Eaton Primary School

  • Erasmus Darwin Academy, Burntwood

  • Featherstone Academy

  • Five Spires

  • Great Wyrley Academy

  • Green Lea First School, Milwich

  • Greysbrooke Primary School, Shenstone

  • Hayes Meadow Primary School

  • Hednesford Valley High School

  • Highfields Primary School

  • Hob Hill CE/Meth(VC) Primary School, Rugeley

  • Jerome Community Primary School

  • King Edward VI High School, Stafford

  • King Edward VI School, Lichfield

  • Manor Hill First School, Stone

  • Moorhill Primary School

  • Perton Middle School

  • Queen's Croft High School, Lichfield

  • Redhill Primary School, Cannock

  • Rocklands School, Lichfield

  • Sherbrook Primary School

  • St. Benedict Biscop CofE Primary School, Wombourne

  • St. James CofE Primary Academy, Rugeley

  • St. John's CE Primary Academy, Stafford

  • St. Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Rugeley

  • St. Luke's CE(C) Primary School, Cannock

  • St. Michael's CE(VC) Primary School, Lichfield

  • St. Peter's CE Primary Academy, Stonnall

  • Staffordshire University Academy

  • The Bridge Centre School, Lichfield

  • Tillington Manor Primary School, Stafford

  • Veritas Primary Academy

  • Walton Hall Academy

  • Wightwick Hall School

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