Covid – Round Two
We were all bombarded with advice and directives on how we would bring our students back in these uncertain times and each school interpreted them in their own style.
Primary schools benefited from the ability to create ‘bubbles’ for their year groups, often having staggered drop off, pickups and break and lunch times.
Covid – Round Two
As children have returned for the autumn term, their incredible resilience and adaptability has been greatly observed by many.
Even though risk assessments have meant a very different start to the school year, children are adjusting remarkably well - whether settling into routines, establishing friendships or building relationships with their assigned Key Person.
Moving forwards - The landscape of Early Years Following the Coronavirus Pandemic
What a year it’s been! No one could have predicted the bizarreness this year has brought – school and setting closures, ‘bubbles’ of children, furloughed staff, Zoom teaching and singing Happy Birthday whilst washing our hands. You couldn’t have made it up! However, we’ve now had to accept that we’re not moving on from life after COVID, but making preparations to live with it, at least for the foreseeable future.
Schools Open: Two weeks in Review
We are now well into the new phase for schools. All of our planning, risk assessing, signing and deep cleaning has been achieved and schools are starting to look much more ‘open for business’.
Prior to this, teachers have been busy providing remote working for their students with support staff working behind the scenes to enable schools to continue to operate and carrying out admin functions.
Returning to "Normal"
As Early Years settings begin to open more widely for children, teachers and practitioners have an important role to play in easing this transition.
Firstly, it’s important to acknowledge that children’s experiences will have differed during lockdown, just as they will have done for the staff. One thing they will all have in common is the change in routine and restrictions placed on our lives. Some parents may have been furloughed, while others will have continued to work, changing their hours to accommodate having their children at home.
Returning To School
Following on from my previous article, the well-being of our staff is a key area of consideration moving forward.
Things to Consider:
The government ‘back to school’ directive will bring with it a myriad of emotion for all school staff, whether they work with primary or secondary children, with the key question: is it safe for the children and for us? The fact that this is unanswerable in any definitive way at the moment will inevitably be causing feelings of stress or panic for many.
KCS - Supporting Keyworkers with PPE
Following two months of disruption, schools are preparing to go back, and we know this will be an unsettling time for everyone involved.
Back to school?
So – we are going back?
Following our significant period of home learning schools are now getting ready to go back, some sooner than others. There is a lot of work required to enable this to happen following the pandemic and a plethora of advice about how to go about it.
How we are supporting Schools come opening Day
‘How are you, and how can we help?’ This is the question our Sales team has been asking to over 3000 customers a week.
Many schools have remained open for key workers children and we appreciate the difficulties teachers are now faced with, in adapting to never before seen changes to their working environments and personal lives.
The highs and lows of remote working…
In the fourth week of remote working, I am starting to realise how much I take for granted on a day-to-day basis. I have come to realise how much I rely on the simple things that we all take for granted.