Chris Read, interim headteacher of The Bishop’s CE Primary Academy in Thetford.
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Like all primary schools, all 419 of Bishop’s Primary pupils will be back in face-to-face lessons on Monday after weeks of homeschooling.
“We have worked hard to support families with home learning and know how hard parents have worked to help their children to make progress,” said Mr Read.
“The experience of the last year will allow us to get the balance right between responding to the children’s emotional needs and helping fill the most significant gaps in their learning.
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Chris Read, interim headteacher of The Bishop’s CE Primary Academy in Thetford.
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Like all primary schools, all 419 of Bishop’s Primary pupils will be back in face-to-face lessons on Monday after weeks of homeschooling.
“We have worked hard to support families with home learning and know how hard parents have worked to help their children to make progress,” said Mr Read.
“The experience of the last year will allow us to get the balance right between responding to the children’s emotional needs and helping fill the most significant gaps in their learning.
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Most children will not make their way to school until March 8 at the earliest.
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Boris Johnson has confirmed pupils will not return to schools as had been planned after February half term.
Instead the prime minister said if the vaccine roll out continued at its current pace schools could reopen on Monday March 8.
And, speaking in the House of Commons, he added that government would set out plans in the week beginning February 22 for the gradual and phased route out of lockdown.
Prime minister Boris Johnson speaks in the House of Commons
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Mr Johnson said: The first sign of normality beginning to return should be pupils going back to their classrooms.