Excessive classroom temperatures - NASUWT

Excessive classroom temperature is not only an issue of personal comfort, itinevitably impacts on teachers’ ability to teach and pupils’ ability to learn. In orderto establish the extent to which this is true, respondents were asked to select, foreach of the given temperature ranges, one statement best describing the impactof temperature on teachers’ ability to teach and pupils’ ability to learn. Tables 4and 5 summarise teachers’ responses:Table 4:Impact of temperature on pupils’ ability to learnImpact statement -20 o C21-23 o C24-26 o C27-29 o C30+o CNo adverse impact No. 395 530 52 1 0% 56% 61% 6% 0% 0%Limited adverse impact No. 157 225 183 14 2% 22% 26% 20% 2% 0%Some adverse impact No. 97 100 403 128 15% 14% 12% 44% 15% 2%Considerable adverse impact No. 43 12 228 405 113% 6% 1% 25% 47% 16%Very considerable adverse impact No. 12 2 45 302 572% 2% 0% 5% 36% 82%6