Ash cloud forces schools to suspend classes [guardian.co.uk]
- Published: 19 April 2010
Schools are being forced to suspend classes today and send homework to students overseas as hundreds of teachers and pupils remain stranded abroad because of the ban on flights.
Pupils and teachers on school trips were expected to return to the UK over the weekend, ahead of the first day of the summer term today. But many have been unable to travel because of the Icelandic volcanic eruption that has made flying perilous.
In Hertfordshire, 352 children are stranded overseas on school trips in 11 countries, from Iceland to Hong Kong. Some 40 pupils and four teachers from Orleans Park School in Twickenham, south London, are stranded in Shanghai, China.
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