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FEATURE WRITER: JAMES LLOYD Y8

In this article, I will be talking about to play golf was hard at first but now I skills! We are all having to find new
how we all have had to adapt to life in have made some simple but challenging ways of communicating and new ways
lockdown. I will also be covering some tasks for me to do I am now managing to of learning. Show My Homework is a
subjects like Home Learning, how we can get more time outdoors. The Kingsmead great tool that we have, and you can be
adapt to change and how we can find PE department have made a challenge set work and you can upload your work
many new ways of communication in list which they are setting for PE home straight to the teacher. Last week, we had
lockdown! learning, but it has some great ideas to assessments, these we all set on SMHW
keep fit and active. and you could do some of them straight
To start off with, I hope you and your in to SMHW as they were multiple choice
families are all well. In these strange and We all need to stay positive during these questions. You also got feedback quickly
unpredictable times, we all need to be different times. So we all need to look on on the Knowledge tests as SMHW worked
there for each other, and some people the bright side of that there will be an end out the score for you in a percentage.
may just need some one to talk to every to all of this and that there will be an end SMHW is also a great tool for receiving
now and then. Recently I was added to to the lockdown and in 5 years’ time, we feedback from your teachers!
a group chat, at first, I wondered what it will all be remembering what we did in the
was for, but I soon realised that it was lockdown of 2020. A good idea to help As we are trying to fill all the time, we
for help and a friendly chat with all my stay positive, to may be write a diary of need to find things to do that is not on our
classmates. Group chats are a great way all the good things that you have do each electrical devices. There are many things
to stay in touch with many people in these day. You could keep hold of that diary to that you can do. You could:
troubled and strange times. Even if you possibly sow the next generation when
do not want to be part of a huge group they think that times are hard and when - Take up photography
chat, you can still just phone up a friend they think that the world is going to end. - Do some gardening
and have a chat. Just show them that and tell them that - Learn life lessons
you got through the lockdown and we - Take up new hobbies
I would like to now go on to how setting beat the coronavirus outbreak. And then - Learn a new language
up home learning has affected us all. they will ask you what Corona was, and - Play sports in your back
When the government announced that they will not believe a word that you say. garden
they were to be closing schools, there - Play family board games
was a lot of worry and tension around In these times, many of us will have - Make your own games
how we would cope and how we would struggled with the change and we will
do it. But Kingsmead staff and students have struggled not seeing our friends. So, I will finish as I started by hoping that you
have been there, and we are ALL now this is where the likes of you video chats are all well and that you are all staying
managing to teach, learn and socialise and the group chats come in useful. You in touch with friends and family. Even
remotely. Kingsmead has set up virtual can still see you friends by video chat. though we cannot see our friends and
coffee morning video calls for all to go Even though you cannot see them in family in person, but we can see them by
on and I think this is a great idea! Home person, you can still see them virtually! video link. Many people and families are
learning has challenged us all but there is doing quiz nights over video connection,
light at the end of the tunnel. One thing that I am sure many of us have these are good ideas so you can have
struggled with is not being able to go some competition and you can see your
Every single person at Kingsmead is outside the house and having to be stuck family and friends.
now having to adapt to change and we in the house. Being stuck in the house
are having to be there for each other. can be a good thing as you can have a There are many things that we can do to
Adapting to change can be hard for some move around in your bedroom so that it is stay connected and scoliosis with friends
people then others. This is because more comfortable for home learning and and family.
some people like the routine that they are you can also learn life skills like cooking Quotes:
normally in. But I am sure that we have and daily around the house jobs.
all found new routines to cope with these - We are distanced but we can
changing and challenging times. If you are struggling not being able to go still be social.
on days out, Chester Zoo are doing virtual
In these challenging times, we all need zoo days out. This is on their Facebook - There is light at the end of the
to find new things to do so that we do and YouTube – As linked below. - tunnel
Its going to be hard but hard
not just sit around a look at our phones
all day. So why do not you try something Chester Zoo - Facebook does not mean impossible
new, I have, I have made a challenge in my
garden to do with golf. I play golf normally Chester Zoo - You tube
so being in lockdown and not being able At home, we are ALL learning new

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