Friday 05 March
I’ve just clocked that it’s day day three hundred and fifty on my one year blog quest. I wonder how different things will be for us all in fifteen days time compared to the same time last year? Quite a bit I hope, and expect.
I started this blog because of Coronavirus and the national lockdown that we were entering. Exactly a year on and we will be emerging from lockdown number three, bleary eyed and bewildered, into a new version of the world that will have changed forever. The extent of these changes will become more apparent as the forthcoming year pans out.
One change that is happening on Monday is that schools are reopening for all pupils. We have missed them and the energy they bring. That’s not to say that our school has been empty, we have had a number of young people in everyday and today we completed there latest lateral flow tests. We will test the others on Monday. We need to do three for each pupil onsite before we then give them a test kit for them to continue doing at home. The staff already have theirs as well as having been vaccinated also.
There will, however, be a number of pupils and staff nervous about next week, with the full classes and busy corridors. Pupils who haven’t seen each other for weeks all coming together and wanting to talk and share experiences. We will manage it all, the one thing schools are great at is coping with challenging situations and seeing them through resiliently and with calm.
But right now, I am tired. There has been so much to manage over the past couple of months and I remember how crazy things have been at other stages over the past year. It has been relentless. I’ve learnt alot about myself and those I work with, everyone copes with things in different ways and some people don’t cope very well at all.
Authority with empathy is going to be the order of the day next week, but right now I am going to start a new book, sip my wine and enjoy the fire on this frosty evening.
The Bald Birder 