Parents will be given two weeksâ notice before pupils return
Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a media briefing in Downing Street, London, on coronavirus (Covid-19). Picture date: Tuesday January 26, 2021. (Justin Tallis/PA) Boris Johnson has said parents and schools will be given two weeks’ notice before pupils return to class. The Prime Minister said the Government will “look at” the idea of reopening schools in areas where the virus is less prevalent, but he added that it was “pretty much a national picture at the moment”. Pupils in schools and colleges in England, except children of key workers and vulnerable pupils, were told to learn remotely as part of the latest lockdown.
Boris Johnson says parents will be given two weeks’ notice before pupils return
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26 January 2021, 7:15 pm
Boris Johnson has said parents and schools will be given two weeks’ notice before pupils return to class.
The Prime Minister said the Government will “look at” the idea of reopening schools in areas where the virus is less prevalent, but he added that it was “pretty much a national picture at the moment”.
Pupils in schools and colleges in England, except children of key workers and vulnerable pupils, were told to learn remotely as part of the latest lockdown.
When asked how children across the country may return to school, Mr Johnson told a Downing Street press conference: “Clearly if we’re going to go back after half-term, February 22, we need to give two weeks’ notice.
Ella is now working from home.
She joins many around the world, fellow Brits and her parents in succumbing to safety over normalcy. She is 12 years old, a high school student in south London.
“When I was in Year Seven and the first lockdown came, we were like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is so good! We don’t have to go to school! ” she said from her dining room, via Zoom. “And now I’m just like, ‘Oh please let me go back to school. ”
As in much of Europe, the British government has made face-to-face learning a priority in the pandemic. Apart from the first lockdown in spring 2020, it had managed to keep schools open through the autumn. That was done, despite, at times, shutting all non-essential retail and restaurants and telling people to stay at home unless absolutely necessary.