A vital milestone is reached this morning on the road back to normality. After months of eerie lockdown silence, schools across the land will echo to the welcome sound of returning pupils.
CHILDREN have made their way to school this morning as classrooms welcomed back pupils after more than two months of studying at home. Parents and carers of pupils at Peter Gladwin Primary School in Drove Road, Hove formed a socially distanced queue outside the school this morning as children across all years returned for face-to-face teaching. This morning, The Argus went to the school to speak to parents about the return after weeks of lockdown.
Joanna Harmer with his two children outside Peter Gladwin Primary School Joanna Harmer, who has children in reception and year three, said she had no fears ahead of her children s return to face-to-face learning.
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Students at Holne Chase School interact with a class member via the internet as his family is self-isolating amid the Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in Milton Keynes, Britain on December 1, 2020. [Photo/Agencies]
LONDON British Prime Minister Boris Johnson described the reopening of schools in England as a national effort to beat coronavirus, even though some experts warned Britain is still not out of the woods , local media reported Sunday. The reopening of schools marks a truly national effort to beat this virus, Johnson told Sky News.
Professor Calum Semple, an expert at Liverpool University and SAGE adviser, pointed to studies that have shown primary school pupils are half as likely to catch and fall ill with Covid as adults.