Plans have either been put on hold or cancelled
It’s not been the greatest start to the summer holidays. In fact, they started early for Holly, as parents of Year R pupils at her school were told of a positive Covid-19 test, the first such result for the school. We picked our confused children up at lunchtime, explaining about how the virus hasn’t gone away and how we need to keep everyone save.
They couldn’t understand why they couldn’t say goodbye properly to their teachers and why they couldn’t sing at the levers assembly on the last day of term.
It's a bitter pill to swallow for all involved at our wonderful school, where like many others, they’ve gone above and beyond to make sure the children are as safe as can be.
Special presents to say thank you to their teachers had to be left at the school to be dropped off, as the teacher too had to enter a 10 day quarantine.
Plans have either been put on hold or cancelled.
Children have been left upset as their siblings are allowed out but they aren’t.
We forget how this impacts on children too.
But I think they are far more resilient than us adults.
Holly just gets on with it – playing in the garden on her monkey bars, Barbie and Ken have been getting plenty of sunshine and a new paddling pool has also helped.
It’s us adults that are struggling. Coming up with ideas to fend off boredom or deflect a possible World War III conflict over who gets the green playdough.
As both Sarah and I have been fully vaccinated and test three times a week, we find it hard to keep her home, but we do understand the bigger picture. We make sure our children do too.
Not everyone will obey the quarantine we know that.
Some people do 50mph in a 30 zone, that’s life, but we’d rather stick to the speed limit.
It won’t be long before we are camping in Weymouth, exploring Marwell Zoo and skimming stones on Stokes Bay.
Deep down, we are thankful we haven’t seen the worst of Covid, unlike many. So for that, we are thankful.