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Schools look forward to welcoming back children );
Schools will re-open on Monday, March 8 as the Government gradually eases the coronavirus restrictions.
Only the children of key workers and those considered to be vulnerable have been in school since the third national began in January and staff have had to have coronavirus tests twice a week.
Other pupils and their teachers have reverted to remote learning at home.
Gillotts School in Henley has been looking after 30 to 35 pupils each day.
Headteacher Catharine Darnton said the school had learned important lessons from the first lockdown last year.
She said: “Of course, we want all our students back with us as soon as that is deemed to be the right course of action in terms of case rates and pressures on the NHS.”
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Must do better Boris, say heads );
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HEADTEACHERS have expressed their frustration at the Government’s 11th hour decision to close schools and switch to remote learning.
Boris Johnson announced on Monday evening that all schools, colleges and universities would be shut for the majority of students until at least the February half-term as the coronavirus pandemic worsens.
Some had been back just a day after the Government insisted at the weekend it was safe for children to return at the start of term.
But then the Prime Minister announced a third nationwide lockdown in less than a year, saying that hospitals were under more pressure from covid-19 than at any time since the start of the pandemic.
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PARENTS have been warned to beware after two girls making their way to school were followed by a stranger in a car.
A Trinity Primary School pupil was stopped by a man driving a white car in Vicarage Road at about 9am on Monday. Police said he made inappropriate comments to the girl and then followed her.
At 8.20am today (Thursday) a year 7 pupil at Gillotts School in Henley was approached, again by a white car. The driver, who wore a hat and ski mask, asked if she wanted a lift and the girl fled.