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Parents are being urged to brace themselves for last-minute school closures as teachers prepare to go on strike next week.

Four out of 10 parents in the East feel like they are missing out on vital early years support for their children, a national charity has warned.

Katrin Oldridge, founder of Norwich Mumbler online parenting group. - Credit: ANDREW OLDRIDGE "As soon as he went back to school he had a spring in his step." Those are the words of single mother Michelle Sheridan, who immediately noticed her nine-year-old son's mood lift when returning to school part-time in January due to her being a key worker. Mrs Sheridan, who is manager of the Marks and Spencer Foodhall on Longwater Retail Park and lives off Bowthorpe Road in Norwich, initially juggled homeschooling during the 2020 lockdowns with Cameron's father but admitted her son needed more int...

Covid-19: How parents plan to tackle lockdown home-schooling By Kate Scotter image captionSchools are closed as another coronavirus lockdown comes into effect in England Parents and children are beginning home-learning after the latest lockdown measures saw schools closed to most pupils. How will they cope and what did they learn from last time? 'Our dining room became a school room' image copyrightFamily Photograph image captionFamily of five, the Humphries in Norwich, are applying "everything we experienced the first time" For the Humphries family in Norwich, structure was the key to "survi...