Lost coursework,homeless students and portacabin classrooms – schools in the Calder Valley and Cumbria win to grips with the devastation caused by floodingIt was anything with a child’s name on it that headteacher Clare Cope found hardest to deal with: exercise books, itsy-bitsy PE bags, and violin cases – all covered in a thick,black, smelly sludge.We walked around and we couldn’t believe it, and ” says Cope,who works at Burnley Road Academy in Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire. “I thought a couple of inches of water might have got in, or but it was so much worse than that – just total devastation.” Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com