Adverse Weather and Emergency Closures
In the event of adverse weather, we will make every effort to keep our school open and running as normal. Therefore, unless you hear from us, our school will be open as normal for all students.
A careful risk assessment will be undertaken and the health and safety of our students and staff will remain our top priority.
To support families to make arrangements, we will endeavour to give parents as much notice as possible should it be necessary to open the school at a later time, to fewer year groups or to close temporarily. Where possible, any decision to open late or to partially or fully close the school will be communicated with parents and carers by 5pm the day before adverse weather is forecast.
On the day of adverse weather, an update will be provided at 7am. This will either be confirmation that our plans communicated on the previous day remain unchanged, or notification that we have had to move to a full closure. This could be due to the unexpected wider impact of the adverse weather, changes to our external provider arrangements, such as transport and catering, staffing levels, or the safety of our site. Please check our website from 7am for the most up to date information.
To support the delivery of communications via Edulink, we recommend downloading the Edulink app and allowing push notifications. The app is available and free for both iOS and Android.
- https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/edulink-one/id1188809029
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.overnetdata.edulinkone
In the event of closure, students will be set work on Edulink to be completed during the day.
How would you know if Uplands were closed?
- Check our homepage. The website will be updated at 7:00am where possible.
- Check our Facebook page
- Check our Instagram account
- Check our Twitter feed
- Check online on the East Sussex County Council website
Listen to Local Radio:
- Heart Kent 102.8 FM or 103.1 FM
- KMFM 96.2 FM or 101.6 FM
- BBC Radio Kent 96.7 or FM 104.2 FM
- BBC Sussex on 104.5 FM or 104.8 FM
- BBC Surrey on 104 FM or 104.6 FM
- Heart FM on 102.4 FM (Eastbourne area)
- Heart FM on 103.5 FM (Brighton area)
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These radio stations usually have a snow desk at quarter hour or half hour intervals that lists closed schools.
How would you know when Uplands would re-open?
Parents are asked to regularly check our website for the most up to date information.