What, in school, are the unintended positives of Covid restrictions?
Here are a few I've heard from school leaders:
Here are a few I've heard from school leaders:
More kindness.
A helpful refocusing and re-rationalising of behaviour routines, and others.
Elements of formality being relaxed, and others introduced.
A productive slowing of pace, generally.
Bubbled groups gelling in unexpected and healthy ways.
The separation of year groups improving behaviour and socialisation.
Young children, in staggered playtimes, using play equipment more, and developing skills visibly faster.
The creative filling of new, insterstitial spaces in the day (lesson change-overs, sanitisation & desk-cleaning pauses, etc) in ways which are actually helping learning, not distracting from it.