SO FAR almost 500 schools have taken the decision to remain closed today following the heavy snow.

A handful of schools have also decided to close on Friday meaning they will re-open on Monday, January 11, giving parents advance warning to arrange any childcare.

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Councillor Matt Dean, cabinet member for environment and transport, who is co-ordinating the council's effort in the cold snap, said: "We would ask the schools to take all the relevant matters into account which would include the health and safety of staff and also ask them to balance that with the inconvenience it causes to parents.

"It's a matter for the head teachers in consultation with governors and we certainly had no problem with them closing schools today."

The lists below will be updated as more schools declare if they plan to close.

As a result, we advise parents to keep checking back to see if their child's school has been added.

All schools on the Isle of Wight have now been closed. Chandlers Ford Infants School will re-open at 10am.

Most schools on the lists below are closed on Thursday only. Schools that are closed on Friday are highlighted.

Southampton

• St George Catholic College is open for years 10 and 11 only
• Beechwood Junior School
• Bassett Green Primary
• Bevois Town Primary School
• Bitterne C of E Infant School
• Bitterne C of E Junior School
• Bitterne Manor Primary School
• Bitterne Park Infant School
• Bitterne Park Junior School
• Bitterne Park Secondary School
• Brook Pre-School
• Charlton House Prep School
• Cantell Maths and Computing College
• Chamberlayne College of the Arts
• The Cedar School
• The Compass Centre
• Fairisle Infant and Nursery School
• Fairisle Junior School
• Foundry Lane Primary School
• Freemantle Infant School
• Glenfield Infant School
• Great Oaks Special School
• The Gregg School
• Hardmoor Early Years Centre
• Harefield Primary School
• Heathfield Junior School
• Highfield C of E Primary School
• Hightown Primary School
• Hollybrook Infant School
• Hollybrook Junior School
• Holy Family Primary School
• Hope Lodge School
• Itchen College
• Kanes Hill Junior School
• King Edward VI School
• Ludlow Infant School
• Ludlow Junior School
• Lydlynch School
• Mansbridge Primary School
• Mansel Park Primary School
• Manor Road School
• Mason Moor Primary School
• Maytree Nursery and Infants School
• Melbourne Centre Pupil Referral Unit
• Moorlands Primary School
• Mount Pleasant Junior School
• Newlands Primary School
• Oasis Academy Mayfield
• Oasis Academy Lords Hill
• Oakfield School
• Oakwood Infant School
• Oakwood Junior School
• Polygon Special School
• Portswood Primary School
• Rainbow Pre-School
• Redbridge Primary School
• Redbridge Community School
• Regents Park Communtiy College
• Regents Park pre-school
• Riverside Pre-School
• Rosewood School
• Shirley Infant School
• Shirley Junior School
• Shirley Warren Primary School
• Shirley High School
• Sholing Infant School
• Sholing Technology College
• Sinclair Nursery and Primary School
• Somerset Road Pre-School
• Springwell School
• St Anne's Catholic School
• St Deny's Primary School
• St Luke's School
• St Mark's CoE Junior School
• St Mary's College
• St Mary's Primary School
• St Monica Infant School
• St Monica Junior School
• St Winifred's
• St Patrick's Catholic Primary School
• St Winifred's School
• Swaythling Primary School
• Startpoint Early Years Centre
• Tanners Brook Infant School
• Tanners Brook Junior School
• Tauntons College
• Thornhill Primary School
• Totton College
• Townhill Infants School
• Townhill Junior School
• Thornhill Primary School
• Upper Shirley High School
• Valentine Infant School
• Weston Church Pre-School
• Weston Park Infant School
• Weston Park Junior School
• West End Pre-school
• Woodlands Community College
• Woolston Infants School Upper
• Wordsworth Infant School
• Valentine Infant School
• Vermont School
• Townhill Infants

Hampshire

• Abbotswood Junior School
• Abbotts Ann Church Of England Primary School
• ACE, the Adult Education Centre, Winchester
• All Saints CoE (Aided) Junior School
• All Saints Church Of England Primary School
• Alverstoke Community Infant School
• Amport C E Primary School
• Ampfield Primary School
• Amery Hill School
• Andover C E Primary School
• Andrew's Endowed CoE Primary School
• Anstey Junior School
• Anton Infant School
• Anton Junior School
• Applemore College
• Ashley Infant School
• Ashley Junior School
• Balksbury Junior School
• Barncroft Infant School
• Barncroft Junior School
• Barton Stacey C E Primary School
• Barton Peveril College
• Basingstocke College of Technology
• Bay House School
• Baycroft School
• Beaumont Junior School
• Beaulieu Village Primary School
• Bedenham Primary School
• Belle Vue Infant School
• Bentley CoE Primary School
• Bidbury Infant School
• Bidbury Junior School
• Binsted Church Of England Primary School
• Bishop's Waltham Infant School
• Bishop's Waltham Junior Junior School
• Bishopswood Infant School
• Bishopswood Junior School
• Blackfield Primary School
• Bohunt School
• Bordon Infant School
• Bordon Junior School
• Botley Church Of England (Controlled) Primary School
• Bramley CoE Primary School
• Bridgemary Community Sports College
• Brighton Hill Community College
• Braishfield Primary School
• Brockenhurst CoE Primary School
• Brockenhurst College (all sites)
• Brockhurst Infant School
• Brockhurst Junior School
• Brookfield Community School And Language College
Brune Park Community College (closed until Monday 11/01)
• Bransgore Primary School
• Burghclere Primary School
• Buriton Primary School
• Burnham Copsse Primary School
• Bursledon Church Of England Infant School
• Bursledon Junior School
• Bushy Leaze Early Years Centre
• The Butts Primary School
• Cadland Primary School
• Calmore Infant School
• Calmore Junior School
• Cams Hill School
• Castle Hill Infant School
• Castle Hill Junior School
• Castle Primary School
• Catherington Church Of England Infant School
• Chalk Ridge Primary School
• Charles Kingsley's CoE Primary School
• Chawton CoE Primary School
• Cheriton Primary School
• Cherbourg School
• Cherrywood Community Primary School
• Chiltern Primary School
• Chineham Park Primary School
• Chineham Junior School
• Church Crookham Junior School
• Clanfield Junior School
• Cliddesden Primary School
• The Clere School And Technology College
• Colden Common Primary School
• The Connaught School
• The Compton School
• Costello Technology College
• Copythorne Church Of England Infant School
• Cranbourne Business and Enterprise College
• Cove Junior School
• Cove School
• Cowplain Community School
• The Crescent Primary School
• Crestwood College for Business and Enterprise
• Crofton Anne Dale Infant School
• Crofton Anne Dale Junior School
• Crofton Hammond Infant School
• Crofton Hammond Junior School
• Crofton School
• Crondall Primary School
• Crookham C E (Aided) Infant School
• Crookhorn College of Technology
• Curdridge Primary School
• Denmead Infant School
• Dove House School
• Droxford Junior School
• Durley C E (Controlled) Primary School
• East Meon CoE (Controlled) Primary School
• Ecchinswell and Sydmonton CE Primary School
• Eggar's School
• Eling Infant School
• Elson Infant School
• Elson Junior School
• Elvetham Heath Primary School
• Emsworth Primary School
• Everest Community College
• Fair Oak Infant School
• Fair Oak Junior School
• Fairfield Infant School
• Fairfields Primary School
• Fairways School
• Fareham College
• Farnborough Grange Nursery/Infant School and Early Years Centre
• Fawley Infant School
• Fernhill Primary School
• Fleet Infant School
• Fordingbridge Infant School
• Fordingbridge Junior School
• Forest First Children Centre, Fawley
• Forest Park School
• Fort Hill Community School
• Four Lanes Infant School
• Foxhills Infant School
• Foxhills Junior School
• Freegrounds Infant School
• Freegrounds Junior School
• Frogmore Infant School
• Frogmore Junior School
• Front Lawn Infant School
• Front Lawn Junior School
• Froxfield CoE Infant School
• Fryern Junior School
• Fryern Infant School
• Gomer Infant School
• Gomer Junior School
• Grange Community Junior School
• Grange Infant School
• Grange Junior School
• Grange Secondary School
• Grateley Primary School
• Grayshott C E Controlled Primary School
• Great Binfields Primary School
• Great Oaks Special School
• Greatham Primary School
• Greenfields Junior School
• Hale Primary School
• Hamble Primary School
• Hambledon Infant School
• Hampshire Collegiate
• Harestock Primary School
• Harrison Primary School
• Harrow Way Community School
• Hart Plain Infant School
• Hart Plain Junior School
• Happy Bunnies Childcare Centre
Haselworth Primary School (closed until Monday 11/01)
• Hatch Warren Infant School
• Hatch Warren Junior School
• Hawley Primary School
• Haven Children's Centre
• Hazel Wood Infant School
• Heatherside Infant School
• Heatherside Junior School
• Heathfield School
• Henry Beaufort School
• The Henry Cort Community College
• Henry Tyndale School
• Herne Junior School
• Hiltingbury Infant School
• Hiltingbury Junior School
• Holbrook Primary School
• Hollywater School
• Holme CoE (Controlled) Primary School
• Hook Infant School
• Hook Junior School
• Hook-With-Warsash Church Of England Primary School
• Hordle Church Of England Primary School
• Horndean Technology College
• Hounsdown Secondary School
• Hulbert Junior School
• Hurst Community College
• Hyde CoE Primary School
• Hythe Primary School
• Icknield School
• Itchen Abbas Primary School
• Kempshott Infant School
• Kempshott Junior School
• Kings Copse Primary School
• Kings Furlong Infant School and Nursery
• Kings Furlong Junior School
• Kings Worthy Primary School
• Kingsclere CoE Primary School
• Knights Enham Infant School
• Knights Enham Junior School
• Knightwood Primary School
• Langrish Primary School
• Lanterns Nursery School
• Lakeside School
• Lee-on-the-Solent Infant School
• Lee-on-the-Solent Junior School
• Leesland Church Of England (Controlled) Infant School
• Limington House School
• Lymington Centre Pre-school
• The Linden Education Centre
• Liphook CoE (Controlled) Junior School
• Liss Junior School
• Lockerley Endowed CoE Primary School
• Locks Heath Infant School
• Locks Heath Junior School
• Long Sutton CoE Primary School
• Lord Wilson School
• Manor Field Infant School
• Manor Field Junior School
• Manor Infant School
• Manor Junior School
• Maple Ridge School
• Marchwood CoE Infant School
• The Mark Way School
• Marlborough Infant School
• Marnel Community Junior School
• Mayhill Junior School
• Medstead CoE Primary School
• Mengham Infant School
• Mengham Junior School
• Meon Cross School
• Meonstoke Church Of England School
• Merdon Infant School
• Merdon Junior School
• Merry Go Round Children's Centre, Wickham
• Merton Infant School
• Merton Junior School
• Micheldever CoE Primary School
• Milford-on-Sea CoE Primary School
• Mill Chase Community Technology College
• Mill Rythe Infant School
• Mill Rythe Junior School
• Morelands Primary School
• Mountbatten School
• Netley Abbey Junior School
• Neville Lovett Community School
• New Milton Infant School
• New Milton Junior School
• Newlands Primary School
• Newport Junior School
• Newtown CoE (Voluntary controlled) Primary School
• Newtown Soberton Infant School
• Nightingale Primary School
• Noadswood Secondary School
• Norman Gate School
• North Baddesley Infant School
• North Baddesley Junior School
• North Farnborough Infant School
• North Waltham Primary School
• Northern Infant School
• Northern Junior Community School
• Norwood Primary School
• Nursling CoE Primary School
• Oak Farm Community School
• Oak Lodge School
• Oak Meadow CoE (Controlled) Primary School
• Oakley CoE Junior School
• Oakley Infant School
• Oakridge Junior School
• Oakridge Junior School
• Oasis Academy Lordshill
• Oasis Academy Mayfield
• Oliver's Battery Primary School
• Orchard Infant School
• Orchard Junior School
• Orchard Lea Infant School
• Orchard Lea Junior School
• Osborne School
• Otterbourne CoE Primary School
• Our Lady & St Joseph Catholic VA Primary School
• Owslebury Primary School
• Padnell Infant School
• Padnell Junior School
• Park Community School
• Park Gate Primary School
• Park Primary School
• Park View Infant School
• Park View Junior School
• Parsonage Farm Nursery and Infant School
• Peel Common Infant School
• Peel Common Junior School
• Pennington Church Of England Junior School
• Pennington Infant School
• Perins School
• Peter Symonds College
• Petersfield Infant School
• The Petersfield School - A Performing Arts College
• Petersgate Infant School
• Pinewood Infant School
• Portway Infant School
• Portway Junior School
• Potley Hill Primary School
• Preston Candover CoE Primary School
• Priestlands School
• Portchester School
• The Priory Primary School
• Prospect School
• Purbrook Infant School
• Purbrook Junior School
• Queens Inclosure Primary School
• Quilley School of Engineering
• Rachel Madocks School
• Ranvilles Infant School
• Ranvilles Junior School
• Red Barn Community Primary School
• Redlands Primary School
• Riders Infant School
• Riders Junior School
• Riverside Community Special School
• Ringwood Secondary School
• Robert May's School
• Roman Way Primary School
• Romsey Abbey Primary School
• Ropley CoE Primary School
• Rowlands Castle St John's CoE (Controlled) Primary School
• Rowledge CoE (Controlled) Primary School
• Rowner Infant School
• Rowner Junior School
• Rownhams St John's CoE Primary School
• Saint James CoE Primary School, West End
The Samuel Cody School (closed until Monday)
• Sarisbury Church Of England Junior School
• Sarisbury Infant School
• Saxon Wood School
• Scantabout Primary School
• Selborne CoE Primary School
• Shakespeare Infant School
• Shakespeare Junior School
• Shamblehurst Primary School
• Sharps Copse Primary and Nursery School
• Shepherds Down Special School
• Sherborne St John CoE Primary School
• Siskin Infant And Nursery School
• Siskin Junior School
• South Baddesley Church Of England Primary School
• South Farnborough Infant School
• South Farnborough Junior School
• South View Infant School
• South View Junior School
• South Wonston Primary School
• Southwood Infant School
• St Anne's Catholic VA Primary School
• St Alban's Church Of England (Aided) Primary School
• St Anthony's Catholic Primary School
• St Bede CoE Primary School
• St Bernadette's Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School
• St James' CoE (controlled) Primary School, Emsworth
• St Faith's C E Primary School
• St Francis C E Primary School
• St John the Baptist Catholic Primary School, Andover
• St John the Baptist CoE Primary School, Titchfield Common
• St John's, Gosport Church Of England Primary School
• St Joseph's Catholic VA Primary School, Aldershot
• St Jude's Catholic VA Primary School
• St Lawrence CE Primary School
• St Luke's CoE Primary School
• St Mark's CoE Primary School
• St Mary's Bentworth CoE Primary School
• St Mary Bourne Primary School
• St Mary's Catholic VA Primary School, Gosport
• St Mary's CoE Junior School, Old Basing
• St Matthew's Church Of England (Aided) Primary School, Blackmoor
• St Martin's East Woodhay C E Voluntary Aided Primary School
• St Michael's Church Of England Infant School
• St Peter's Catholic VA Primary School, Winchester
• St Peter's CoE (Aided) Junior School
• St Swithuns School
• St Swithun Wells Catholic VA Primary School, Chandler's Ford
• St Thomas More's Catholic VA Primary School, Havant
• St Vincent's School
• Stakes Hill Infant School
• Stanmore Primary School
• Staunton Community Sports College
• Steep Church CoE (voluntary controlled) Primary School
• Stockbridge Primary School
• Stoke Park Infant School
• Stoke Park Junior School
• Sun Hill Junior School
• Swanmore College Of Technology
• Tadley Community Primary School
• Talavera Infant School
• Talavera Junior School
• Tavistock Infant School
• Testwood Sports College
• Test Valley School
• Thornden School
• Tiptoe Primary School
• Titchfield Primary School
• Tower Hill Primary School
• Toynbee Secondary School
• Trosnant Infant School
• Trosnant Junior School
• Tweseldown Infant School
• Twyford St Mary's CoE Primary School
• Upham CE (Aided) Primary School
• Velmead Junior School
• Uplands School
• Vernham Dean Gillum's C E Primary School
• Vigo Infant School
• Vigo Junior School
• The Vyne Community School
• Waite End Primary School
• Wallisdean Infant School
• Wallisdean Junior School
• Wallop Primary School
• Warblington School
The Waterloo School (closed until Monday 11/01)
• Waterside Primary School
• The Wavell School School
• Weeke Primary School
• Wellow Primary School
• West End Infant School
• West Meon CoE (VC) Primary School
• West Tytherley School
• Western Primary School
• Westfields Infant School
• Westfield Junior School
• The Westgate School
• Weyford Infant School and Nursery
• West Tytherley School • Weyford Junior School
• Wherwell Primary School
• Whiteley Primary School
• Whitewater Church of England Primary School
• Whickham C E Primary School
• Wicor Primary School
• Wildern School
• Wildground Infant School
• Wildground Junior School
• William Gilpin CoE Primary School
• Winklebury Infant School
• Winklebury Junior School
• Woodcot Primary School
• Woodcroft Primary School
• Woodlea Primary School
• Woolton Hill Junior School
• Wootey Infant School
• Wootey Junior School
• Wyvern Technology College
• Yateley Infant School