More snowfall is expected in the Bristol area over the next few days.

Forecasters were predicting wintry showers today with the possibility of snow overnight.

Thursday and Friday were both expected to bring more snow.

Although Monday's snowfall was receding yesterday, there were plenty of opportunities for youngsters to build snowmen, have snowball fights and go sledging, particularly in North Somerset, where 33 schools shut for the day.

Only two schools in Bristol – Bankleaze primary in Lawrence Weston and Oasis Academy in Hengrove were shut but in North Somerset, 27 out of 65 primary schools were closed, as were six out of 10 secondary schools.

The majority of school closures in North Somerset were in Weston-super-Mare. The resort saw 15 of its 25 primary schools shut for the day and three out of four secondary schools in the resort also told pupils not to attend.

These were Wyvern Community, Worle and Priory Community with only Broadoak Community remaining open.

Overall across the district the figure for secondary school closures remained high with six out of 10 closed.

Julian Baldwin, head teacher at Backwell, defended the early decision not to open the school.

He said: "Had we have opened, it could have been that by 10am or midday we could have had several accidents. I am not prepared to take that risk and I do not think I should have done."

Those schools which did open were Gordano School in Portishead, Clevedon Community School and St Katharine's in Pill.

Some schools did open and reported having a great time in the snow but St Barnabas Primary School in Portishead decided to close after a few hours.

Lesley Hibberd, school administrator, said the decision was made to ensure pupils got home safely.

She said: "We opened in the morning but we took the decision to close the school for the afternoon and contacted parents asking them to collect pupils at 1pm.