It's been a damp drizzly weekend here starting from the cooling off of Wednesday to the heavy rain and showers from Thursday onwards.
One thing that during this emergency I have been seeing more of is children, particularly the under twelves who probably haven't had as much set online work or even whole lessons to deal with ever since schools shut except for a number of Key Workers and even then as my local combined infant and junior school put it on their website they haven't been doing any actual teaching simply because apart from being unfair on the others, the class age range has been quite high so whole class teaching just couldn't work.
In the great return to school, sort of controversy ours are returning in phased classes from the middle of the month for two days on, two days off with Wednesdays reserved for cleaning and work setting.
The online resources will continue throughout for those whose parents don't feel it's safe (whenever this thing can ever be 100% safe) or where child or parent is vulnerable or self isolating.
Personally I'm on the with reluctance going with reopening side because for one thing no group of teachers would ever put children at risk of something they themselves would not accept and for another some children are falling badly behind or having considerable mental health issues around anxiety and fear at home and badly need a structured cared for day close to what it was to help cope with many of us as legal adults are finding trying ourselves.
With that said I'll end by saying I have a new bag ready for the next time we're able to be together.
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