I recently moved next to a school, and they ring their school bells way past normal school hours pretty much every night, including at 9pm on Saturdays.
I didn’t go to school in the UK, and none of my schools ever had bells, so just wanted to check if this was normal? I expected the bells and the kids to be noisy during the day, and that’s all good, but 9pm every day seems a bit mad.
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Is it a boarding school?
That’s definitely not normal.
Maybe they’re testing them, maybe they’ve set their timer wrong. Either way, I’d send them an email or give them a ring and let them know it’s a disturbance.
You sure it’s not a prison
That’ll be the ghosts
School janitor here – someone has messed up the timing system on the bell. Might be worth giving them a polite call to tell them what’s been going on. It’s an easy fix.
You sure it’s not a catholic school and it’s not the church next to it.
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I live in the middle of 6 schools, some are faith schools and some aren’t and there’s a church next to 2 of them. None of their bells go off at night and I can hear their bells during the week days when kids are at school. They’re never on during the half terms either so I think your best bet is to call the school and tell them what’s happening. If it isn’t fixed you can make a noise complaint to the local council
Try Holy water.
You can probably get some from Amazon (the online retailer, not the river).
It is also possible that the school is being used for evening classes, rented hall etc. The bell then might be rung to “encourage” everyone to leave so that the janitor can lock up.
Either that schools haunted or someones kid has found the bell switch and their parents have given up
Yes but only when they are on fire.
I live near a [private] school that had a new Tannoy / PA system fitted that loudly bing-bonged and then made echoey robot-voice announcements like “after school prep starts at 3:30 in the library” at a really stupid volume across the whole school complex.
I emailed their office to complain (they were every hour all weekdays between 9 and 5pm) and they were pretty apologetic and turned down the volume of the one nearest the residential street. It was a lot better. It stayed like that for a week or so but now I *never* hear them so I think they realised it was just really annoying for all involved (robot voices, bing bongs like an airport) and reverted to an older system.
Not that much of that is relevant to you except to say as a resident, your opinion may well be treated seriously if you complain in a fair and even manner 🙂
Speak with the institution. They should have answers
Is it a secondary school? It could be that it rings when they’re about to lock up so no one gets stuck there overnight? One of my niblings forgot something at school one day. I drove them back to get it. We got there just after 8.30pm and there was a teacher who was doing a final sweep of the classrooms and corridors to make sure everyone had left so they could lock up. I was surprised there were still a few people around at that time of night but they do hold some evening classes in this school too so maybe that explains it.
We do, but only for open evening to signify when the talks with the head teacher are happening (and then the clear out and go home at the end). If it’s nightly, then I’d hazard to guess somethings up with their bell system
No. Not normal, somethings gone wrong in their system. Contact the school at le them know.
Usually they have a set time, during daytime, when I went to collect GCSE Results in August back in 2012, I didn’t hear bell go off & we came at before time of bell would of went off. Lights were on stuff. I think it’s ment to be turned off between 4.00pm and 6.00pm. Just phone school up & let them know the alarm bell was going off