For almost 8 weeks now, classrooms have been brought to kitchen tables in homes across the country as parents and children alike, both adapt to home schooling during Lockdown.

Following Boris Johnsons speech on Sunday, it has been proposed that schools will partially reopen to some pupils on June 1st. The PM has put forward a plan which could see reception classes as well as year 1 and year 6 pupils heading back to school in an attempt to get the UK back to work. Class sizes are said to be limited to just 15 students each, with key worker’s children being prioritised for the available spaces. Schools will remain closed to children whose parents are not key workers.

The Governments plans have faced criticism from parents and teachers alike. Sarah Jenkinson is a secondary school teacher as well as a mother of three young children. If following the Governments proposed plan, it would mean two of her children could go back to school, but would leave her middle child, Emily, a year 3 pupil, still at home and needing childcare.

With Sarah’s husband also being a key worker in a hospital she says that there should be a special amendment to the proposed guidelines which allow all children belonging to parents of key workers to be allowed to go back to school, no matter their age.

Sarah said “it’s not fair that I’m expected to go back to work in a few weeks to teach my year 10 pupils who have exams next year, yet only two of my three kids are allowed to go back to school.”

She also added that she felt it was too early to be sending children as young as five back to school as they could no adhere to social distancing rules and has decided to keep all three of her children at home.

   Sarah has been juggling home-schooling her three young children as well as working from home as a Secondary School Teacher at the same time.