By the time the new school year began, there was another new normal that was introduced:
- Masks in classrooms and hallways,
- Teaching from the front and
- School-Year 'BUBBLES
There was no such thing as encountering other year groups. Teachers were the ones moving about and navigating teaching outside of their personalised classrooms. For the first two months of the school year, students all saw a handful of classrooms, followed one-way systems and had different timetables. It was insane.
Outside of my realm of teaching, a lot of offices near my abode were figuring out a hybrid approach to in and out of office presence. I lived near the BBC TV Centre and noticed that no one was eager to be back in the office just yet.
It seemed as though no one as convinced anything was quiet 'safe' yet.
Next: Lockdown 2.0