As lockdown restrictions continue to ease, UK schools are welcoming a return to many aspects of everyday life ? from the pride of representing your school at a sports fixture to the challenge of an extra-curricular activity, and from setting off on a trip to sitting down in an exam hall. Here’s how Wetherby Senior School is resuming back to business as usual.
The return of co-curricular activities
For Wetherby Senior School, an independent boys? school in Marylebone, London, the current academic year has seen over 160 sports games booked, including favourites like football, rugby and cricket. Mr James Sullivan, Director of Sport, said: ?At Wetherby Senior, sport is a compulsory activity across all years and, since lockdown limited opportunities for participation in team sports, I?m delighted to see our teams now competing regularly against other institutions. These sports fixtures help pupils develop character, build friendships, and stay healthy, both physically and mentally.? While some co-curricular activities moved online during the pandemic, opportunities to perform in front of a live audience were curtailed. This particularly impacted pupils with interests like drama and music as Ms Abbey Twomey, Head of Drama, explains: ?At Wetherby Senior, we did an online production of David Hare?s Beat the Devil (about the playwright?s experience of having Covid) but streaming this during lockdown is very different to performing live on stage, in front of human beings!
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