Floreat e-learning

Eton College offered its online selfstudy platform, Etonx, free of charge to all UK state schools; to date, access codes have been given to more than 300,000 students from 900 schools

Choristers of Magdalen College School, Oxford, sang the Hymnus Eucharisticus

live online at 6am last May Day morning. Pupils also broadcast an eight-part radio serial, When We Meet Again

Virtual house meetings and hotchocolate sessions became a daily mainstay of home life for Harrow pupils

Oxford prep the Dragon School has set up a virtual holistic curriculum for pupils, including yoga and mindful activities

Gappers at Hanford prep, Dorset, have been entertaining the girls with virtual Zumba lessons from the library

Rugby School has set up a partnership with the charity Kissing it Better, in which pupils are ‘patched through’ to care homes to cheer isolated residents, with singing, chatting and birthday cards. Students have also been helping Rugby Portobello Trust in London with catch-up lessons in maths and English via Microsoft Teams

At Woodcote House prep school in Surrey, headmaster David Paterson reports that they’ve cut down class sizes (already small) and concentrated on ensuring the boys have fun, as well as learning. James Scholefield’s PE classes, a rival to Joe Wicks’s, are highlights, as are cook-offs, which ‘are ruining kitchens across the country’ Ampleforth pupils who were sorry to miss the Yorkshire snow in January were cheered by an Instagram clip of the Dean, Father Ambrose, sledging joyously down a hill

Ludgrove in Berkshire supported Children’s Mental Health Week in February—partly with the John O’groats to Land’s End challenge, for which boys clocked up miles by running or cycling —and had increased its social-media following to 2,222 at time of writing. The school finds that parents and prospective parents find social media more illuminating and spontaneous than a manufactured virtual tour