Don’t warm your hands on the radiator when you’ve just come in from outdoors; you’ll get chilblains.
I remember being told this at school, generally when we were trying to defrost after several hours spent out on a freezing cold games field.
Or were the teachers just trying to stop you all crowding around the radiators and get you back to your desks? A lot of classrooms in Australia have electric heaters attached to the wall at ground level. On cold days a few kids fight over sitting right in front of the heater (usually the ones who insist on wearing shorts and t-shirts on cold days if there is a bit of sunshine when they wake up), which is also never in the floor or desk area where they should be sitting. The same happened when I was a student. Our teachers told us the heater would turn off as the thermostat would detect the room being hotter than it actually was unless everyone sat at least 1 metre away from them. Now I pass that on to my students. I think it's true??? But it also stops fights over sitting in the warm spot, prevents any risk of kids catching fire/getting burnt and helps get the kids sitting where they actually can listen and watch the lesson. I think the heaters are safe though given kids always try to sit too close and have never caught fire!
When I first started teaching my room didn't have air conditioning. I had a portable air conditioner in the room, but the air didn't cool the whole room so I placed it near where the kids sat when on the floor and they would huddle around it. Later that year proper air conditioning was installed in the ceiling that actually worked and cooled the whole room. At first the kids all wanted to huddle and sit directly beneath the unit until I convinced them it cooled the whole room!
Don't put on your coat/jacket until just before you head outside, otherwise you'll get used to having the jacket on in the warm indoors, and then going outdoors will feel cold in comparison.
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Or were the teachers just trying to stop you all crowding around the radiators and get you back to your desks? A lot of classrooms in Australia have electric heaters attached to the wall at ground level. On cold days a few kids fight over sitting right in front of the heater (usually the ones who insist on wearing shorts and t-shirts on cold days if there is a bit of sunshine when they wake up), which is also never in the floor or desk area where they should be sitting. The same happened when I was a student. Our teachers told us the heater would turn off as the thermostat would detect the room being hotter than it actually was unless everyone sat at least 1 metre away from them. Now I pass that on to my students. I think it's true??? But it also stops fights over sitting in the warm spot, prevents any risk of kids catching fire/getting burnt and helps get the kids sitting where they actually can listen and watch the lesson. I think the heaters are safe though given kids always try to sit too close and have never caught fire!
When I first started teaching my room didn't have air conditioning. I had a portable air conditioner in the room, but the air didn't cool the whole room so I placed it near where the kids sat when on the floor and they would huddle around it. Later that year proper air conditioning was installed in the ceiling that actually worked and cooled the whole room. At first the kids all wanted to huddle and sit directly beneath the unit until I convinced them it cooled the whole room!
Said mother.
Persistently.
“ Remember your father !”
(No ma
That was a spontaneous pneumothorax)