letter to parents and carers
on Friday, Honywood headteacher James Saunders said that 22 of the secondary school’s classrooms were to be closed with immediate affect – meaning that many of the more than 800 pupils would be faced with remote learning for the start of term.that the school was searching for temporary classroom units to get more year groups back on-site, but that it was unlikely that all pupils would return before 2 October.
For Ms Richards’s son, the rota devised by Honywood means that he will only be going in to school once in the first two weeks of term. On one of those days – 13 September next week – he will only attend school briefly to collect an iPad the students will use for remote learning.“It’s not like being in a classroom with your peers,” Ms Richards told, explaining that her son’s mental health had suffered during the last bout of remote learning during Covid.
“My concern is, we’ve had six weeks off and the kids are very ready to go back to school and get their routine back, see their friends – or mates, as my son would put it – and that’s just been taken away.”