CYP Now - Making schools 'Covid secure' in the Bi-borough

We all know children are resilient and can adapt with a swiftness many adults struggle to achieve. So, as rules and regulations around lockdown have changed, young people too have had to keep up with the constant shifting and reworking of the way we can and cannot interact in order to keep each other safe.

Across the Bi-Boroughs of Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster, schools were seeing a peak of almost 45 per cent of children attending before the summer holidays, as they ‘blended’ their learning models to offer on-site lessons, online learning and work sent home. It was soon acknowledged that teaching facts and figures was easier than new concepts using remote methods, and that the level of emotional support required by the children – at home and at school – was such that a lot of activities were focused on wellbeing… and rightly so!

Our primary schools have become key hubs for family support; providing foodbanks, newsletters and maintaining regular contact. They were the connection to the outside world for many of our families who have been shielding or feeling too anxious to go out.

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