What Challenges and Opportunities Will Prep Schools Face in a Post-Covid World"
Naomi Bartholomew, Head of St Catherine?s Prep School, Bramley looks at the challenges and opportunities in prep schools in our nearly post-Covid world.
At the beginning of the year, the term ‘post-covid world‘ felt very out of reach. Parents and teachers spent the first few months of 2022 in what felt rather like a parallel universe to the ?outside world?.
Numbers of cases of Covid-19 in those aged 0 to nine years rose to the highest since the pandemic began and parents continued to battle with combining work and childcare, supervising learning from home and fielding endless updates and changes from their schools as situations changed daily.
Prep and primary schools grappled with ?hybrid learning?, teaching those in front of them and finding creative ways to also engage those learning at home who may be asymptomatic but having to self-isolate.
There?s a whole new language which we and our children are now using. I came across two eager pupils this morning waiting patiently outside our music room, commenting of their teacher, ?He?s on Zoom, we?ll just wait for him to close the meeting.?
Let?s not forget how new this all is.
Meanwhile, news continues of a return to normality, relaxation of measures to curb the spread of the pandemic and ?learning to live in a world with Covid?.
So, what does this new normal look like in schools" What are the opportunities for children" What are the challenges we still have to overcome"
Many of us have been chartin...
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