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FEBRUARY

I like school those in P4 through to S6, and Key Worker Child
Care continued to operate, a partial reopening
for the school’s youngest years was a relief and a
because … stepping stone to better times.
With remote learning entering a sixth and
seventh week after midterm in February, there
was the understanding that pupils were very
A picture is worth a thousand words – or so the much missing the day-to-day interaction with
saying goes – but Matilda Wilson’s illustration their contemporaries and teachers, while S5 and
above really does say it all. S6 pupils were wondering when, if ever, prelims
Her drawing, inspired by a Rights Respecting would happen.
Schools challenge, was timely, for on February 22, The importance of wellbeing and positive
school reopened for pupils in the Nursery, P1, P2 mental health was, therefore, repeatedly stressed,
and P3, and those pupils were able to see their as The importance of living (and learning)
teachers and classmates face-to-face for the first opposite seeks to illustrate.
time in exactly two months.
Although remote learning would remain for Mr Jonny Muir

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