Home schooling in lockdown: My son's teachers are doing an incredible job – Hayley Matthews

Our previous attempts at home schooling in the first lockdown were very "fluid", this one though not so much.

However, I have to give a massive shout out to Miss Davis, my nine-year-old’s teacher because she's taken the online teaching in her stride and has been fantastic!

She's so positive and upbeat with the kids. If I had an ounce of her patience and tech skills I'd feel I could take on the world!

The tech has been a wonderful saviour for our kids just now. Being able to learn online and keep in touch with their pals at school has been a welcome positive of the home schooling project.

I'm especially proud and blown away by the tech competency of my son and how well he's doing (he's a clever wee cookie).

And he's loving the online learning as he gets to sit with his cup of tea and iPad chatting to his class. I can see him growing up in to a very confident young man who's able to adapt to a lot of challenges.

I've explained how these are strange times and that everything is quite different but to be honest, he's loving it and coping really well with the challenge.

So to all the staff at our school and head teacher Mrs Deans – THANK YOU! You're all doing an incredible job at keeping our kids education going through a pandemic.

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