Surely there’s only so many times something can be so misunderstood out of context? At what point do we just agree that if it’s going to be ‘misunderstood’ then don’t say it. I just feel frustrated about it all.
Nobody knew that the pandemic would go on for so long.
1/10
Nobody knew that the pandemic would go on for so long.
1/10
We didn’t have the benefit of hindsight. Had we known, we might have done something differently.
We were told that we were emergency childcare and so that’s what we provided.
We were told that the National Curriculum was on pause so that’s what we went with.
2/10
We were told that we were emergency childcare and so that’s what we provided.
We were told that the National Curriculum was on pause so that’s what we went with.
2/10
We provided the best that we could with the situation we were in. I’m incredibly proud of what my school did in that first lockdown. It was completely new territory and we were doing what the government should have been.
3/10
3/10
We went from spending a significant chunk of time with the children we serve and seeing their parents at drop off and pick up to seeing very few of them.
We prioritised the well-being of our families. We provided food parcels and we phoned home as often as we could.
4/10
We prioritised the well-being of our families. We provided food parcels and we phoned home as often as we could.
4/10
Remote learning was an entirely alien concept for us. I, like many others, work in a school where most children don’t have access to devices at home. We were racking our brains trying to come up with ways to keep them busy offline.
5/10
5/10
Let’s not forget that this was all while people struggled with their mental health and being locked down, single households didn’t have a support bubble at first, school staff and their family members battled covid. It wasn’t easy and yet we still prioritised our families.
6/10
6/10
We might not have had a five star remote education programme ready to go on March 23rd 2020, but nobody told us we had to.
The whole world was going through an incredibly scary and challenging time. We were all at a standstill.
7/10
The whole world was going through an incredibly scary and challenging time. We were all at a standstill.
7/10
If the DfE and Ofsted wanted us to be on zoom and teams and Google classroom during the first lockdown then they should have been enabling us to make that happen.
Some schools acted faster than others because they had the means to do so. Good for them.
8/10
Some schools acted faster than others because they had the means to do so. Good for them.
8/10
We did what we could for our children and their families. We were the friendly voice at the end of the phone or the familiar face dropping off a bag of food so a family didn’t go hungry.
I’ll be proud to tell my grandkids about that one day.
9/10
I’ll be proud to tell my grandkids about that one day.
9/10
And just because we have the benefit of hindsight now doesn’t mean we should start picking apart what schools did in Lockdown 1.0.
The government can look at what they did and didn’t do, and said and didn’t say, and directed and didn’t direct, and they can learn from it.
10/10
The government can look at what they did and didn’t do, and said and didn’t say, and directed and didn’t direct, and they can learn from it.
10/10
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