Calderdale schools are informing parents about their imminent closures due to strike action on July 10.
Brighouse High School will be closed to most pupils in Years 8, 9, 10, and 12. Year 7 should attend school for the planned Careers Day. Other pupils involved in projects or coursework activity may also be invited in to attend by teachers.
Calder High School will be closed except for students in Year 12.
The following schools will be closed:
Bradshaw Primary School
Burnley Road Academy
Central Street Infant and Nursery
Colden Junior and Infant (partially closed)
Ferney Lee Primary
Highbury School, Rastrick
Old Town Primary School
Parkinson Lane Community
St Mary’s Junior and Infant School, Sowerby Bridge Riverside Junior School (partially closed)
The following schools will be open as normal:
Rastrick High School
All Saimts Junior and Infant School
Bolton Brow Junior, Infant and Nursery School
Bowling Green Primary School
Christ Church School, Pellon
Dean Field Community Primary
Foxhill Primary School, Queensbury
Greetland Academy
Hebden Royd Primary
Norland CE Junior and Infant School
Northowram Primary School
St Andrew’s Infant School, Brighouse
St John’s Primary Academy, Clifton
St Patrick’s Catholic Primary
Stubbings Infant
Wainstalls School
West vale Primary School
Whitehill Academy
Members of Calderdale National Union of Teachers, will be taking strike action along with other public sector workers - GMB, UNISON, UNITE, FBU, PCS - and attending a rally to be held in Leeds.
Calderdale NUT secretary Sue McMahon said: “Teachers only ever take strike action as a last resort.
“We deeply regret disruption to pupils and parents, but we are in dispute with the Government about pay, pensions
and workload.
“The massive increase in teachers’ workload since 2010 is not time spent on preparing exciting lessons for your children, but on form-filling.”
UNISON local government and school support staff members in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will also be taking one day of strike action in support of better pay.
UNISON General Secretary, Dave Prentis, said: “Many of our members are low paid women earning barely above the minimum wage, who care for our children, our elderly and our vulnerable and they deserve better treatment than they have had at the hands of this Government. The employers must get back into talks immediately to avoid a damaging dispute.”
Firefighters in England and Wales will also join hundreds of thousands of other public sector workers on strike as the Fire Brigades Union announced a strike will take place between 10am and 7pm and will be the fifteenth in the FBU’s campaign.
The FBU has also called eight consecutive days of strike, starting July 14.