Calls for pupils to repeat school year after learning time lost in lockdown
Some parents feel their children have lost so much education they should start the year again
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Some parents are calling for youngsters to repeat the academic year (Image: PA)
With the majority of pupils home learning amid the pandemic, some parents are calling for children to repeat the school year.
Thousands of youngsters across Greater Manchester missed vital classroom time before Christmas, when they had to isolate following confirmed cases of the virus among classmates and staff.
Since the holiday, they ve been remote learning once again after the Prime Minister took the decision to close schools to all but vulnerable and key worker children from January 5.
1/1 A VETERAN is sending a glimmer of hope to elderly residents across south Essex as he shares his story of beating Covid-19 at the age of 97. Ernie Keeble is now back at his home in Woodbury Court Care Home in Laindon having fought off the virus in hospital. The 97-year-old Second World War veteran, who has a combined 43 grandchildren, great grandchildren and great great grandchildren, also celebrated his 80th wedding anniversary with his wife Joan, 96, this month. His granddaughter Leonie Gray has praised her “trooper” grandfather and the home for taking such good care of him. The 35-year-old said: “The home have been really good. He had Covid for two weeks. He was very poorly in the home and then had a fall and had to go to hospital.