Insanity prevailed at our school today. The heating was off and it was just marginally cooler than normal. I'm sad to say but the staff at our school showed themselves to be completely nesh. Gloves went on in the maths office, coats were wrapped round bodies and everyone had a embattled look about them. It was like being at some kind of emergency centre suitable for The Day After Tomorrow.

The Head even came round to see how things were. If there had been something seriously wrong at the school I would have been impressed with her frontline approach but it just seemed odd. I quite like our Head but she looked a bit daft stood in the Maths Office with a massive coat on, she would have looked more in place in the centre of Moscow in December.

There were pastoral meetings after school. Ours lasted ten minutes because the teacher in charge of it wanted to get it done so that everyone could get home as soon as possible. I didn't particularly mind as I have a habit of zoning out and daydreaming during meetings but the siege mentality everyone had made it seem as though we were in the middle of a blizzard and could be cut off from civilisation at any moment.

If they don't get the problem fixed then school will be closed tomorrow. One of the Assistant Head people came round the meetings to inform us of this. He said he would put a message on the website one way or the other by about seven-thirty because he couldn't imagine anyone would set off before then. Try six-fifteen, for a seven o'clock arrival. Oh yes, I'm raising the bar for insane (and completely unnecessary) dedication, it's about time senior leadership joined me up here.

The weird thing is that during a year seven lesson on probability one of the questions was what is the probability of school being closed tomorrow. It was ominous and spooky as normally the answer would be close to impossible, but today it was a little closer to evens, though I had to disappoint them and point out that it was still unlikely. If they were a bit brighter I might have started talking about conditional probability but I was just happy that they could recognise that the probability of getting a tails on a coin was a half.

I would imagine that we will be in school tomorrow. I can understand the mentality of wanting to make the situation seem more exciting and dramatic than it really is but I do hope everyone stops being so drippy. None of my classes seemed to be complaining about the temperature so perhaps the teachers should take a leaf out of their book.