With the prime minister’s “roadmap” commencing with the full opening of schools and colleges from March 8, attention has rightly turned to the question of how to recover the “lost learning” of children who have spent a substantial period of their lives out of school.
This is a challenge not simply to address lost learning, but to ensure we do not see a lost generation as a result of the events of the past year.
It is undeniable that the impact of the pandemic in disrupting children’s education has been significant. Educational progress has been inhibited. Curriculum delivery methods have been recast. Examinations have been scrapped. The opportunities to meet, socialise and play daily with friends have been abruptly cut off. And the cost of all of this and more for children’s emotional and mental wellbeing is likely to be profound.
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