Jersey's Les Quennevais School to close due to hot weather

Students will be sent home early from a new £40m secondary school in Jersey as it is expected to be too hot to open.

Les Quennevais School's cooling systems are reportedly not able to keep the temperatures down in classrooms.

Temperatures have reached about 30C (86F) on Tuesday.

In June, the head teacher said ongoing issues with the air cooling system were "unacceptable" and had not been working since in was built in 2020.

Sarah Hague said an installation unit was meant to be fitted at the States-funded school in the Easter holidays, but it "was not done".

Deputy Ina Gardiner, Jersey's new Education Minister said she understood 14 units had previously been installed in part of the school but not throughout.

She said: "I need to understand the details and what happened previously and to put plans in place to make sure that this problem will be rectified.

"I am responsible, the children will be at school and will study, and for this they need a safe environment throughout the school not part of the school, and we will be working on it"

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