UK drama: Gasp! Teacher "let children walk on frozen pond" - Suffolk Free Press

A HEADTEACHER has come in for a storm of criticism for taking children on to a frozen pond during a recent cold snap.
Youngsters from years one and two at Great Waldingfield Primary School were led out on to the ice last month by head teacher Angie Jones as part of a lesson on the weather.

Some parents are now insisting she leaves the school saying she is unfit to be in charge of children.
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Despite the criticisms, a spokesman for Suffolk County Council said they were satisfied the children were entirely safe.

He said: "As part of a class topic on weather, one child at a time was helped to stand on the ice, while being held by an adult, to see how hard the frozen surface was. The water at this point was a few inches deep.

"The teacher gave clear advice to the class at the time and in a later school assembly about the dangers of walking on ice."

He added that it was a properly supervised activity and children were given clear messages about only going near water when accompanied by an adult.

Bishop Hill blog - Vicky Pope on climate change

Dr Vicky Pope is a climate modeller from the Met Office. Here she is speaking about future climate change [2007].
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Highlights include

* a 1 degree warming will lead to irreversible changes in marine ecosystems
* a 2 degree warming will lead to the irreversible loss of the Greenland ice sheet and over longer timescales to a 7m rise in sea levels
* a 3 degree warming will lead to the loss of the Amazon rainforest.

Today she has an article in the Guardian in which she says

Apocalyptic climate predictions' mislead the public

Is it the sound of backsides being covered I can hear?