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Lockdown Memories

Please note that these have been added as they have come in, so are not sorted in any way at all! To find a particular contribution you can use CTRL+F and search for a name. ​The book will be better organised and properly indexed!

​Lynn Wood

The Key worker children at Europa School

Hand standing at will, cartwheeling away,
Running in all directions, children at play.
 
Hide and seeks regale, behind every bush
Chasing around about, nobody in a rush.
 
Arms outstretched and tense, balancing on the frame
Jumping on the roundabout, inventing a new game.
 
This is the happy scene in the school ground
Where all the keyworker children are to be found.
 
And suddenly a change afoot, the new regime starts
With soap and disinfectant and the 2 m rule apart.
 
If we had a child’s view, we may better observe the effect
Of being treated as a corona child, an object we reject.
 
Let’s hope the curve is squashed and a second peak averted,
And children can play and play and even, yes, get dirty!


Fear

​I used to meet you on the street everyday
and smile and pass the usual pleasantries.
But now I sense the fear, the white of your eyes
narrowing above your tightly fitted mask.

I do not live your life and share your burdens
Your underlying health issues or any
encounters with this viral infection
which modern media has transmitted?

But I will continue to smile even though
I know that you cannot reciprocate.
Anxiety will ease and transfer to others
And will dominate until hope pervades.

Zoe and Justus Kilgus RDE

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Zino Zigan 4DE

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When playgrounds are closed
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O Radiant Dawn
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Music practice
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Friends
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Elfchen

Veronica Bush 5DE

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Baking Egyptian bread to recipe from BBC Bitesize
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Preparing bunting for VE Day
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Home-growing radishes
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Breaking world record with Rob Biddulph
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Camping in the garden
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Cooking sausages on the fire
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Dot-painting Australian Digeridoo

Tristan and Zac Reed 3EE and 1EE

The Lockdown Low-down 

At first, we weren’t really sure about the lockdown
Our parents’ response was to swear, worry and frown.
Our Dad said ‘Homeschooling? I’d rather eat my hat’; 
Our mother took one look at Joe Wicks and said ‘I am NOT doing that!’
We thought ‘Great! We’ll get more time for movies, iPad and to ride our bike’
Because those are the things we’re always asking for and that we really like.

During lockdown our parents insisted we get lots of exercise and fresh air
So we walked everywhere, climbed trees and it was all a happy affair;
(Well, except on the day a woman with a tennis racket in her hand
Came running after us, shouting ‘Get off my land!’)

Every day we read the new chapters from the Ickabog;
In case you wondered it’s by J.K. Rowling but not about a young wizard or a frog.
We really recommend you read it for yourself;
It’s a good story, and shouldn’t just sit on the shelf. 

Anyway, it’s summer and the lockdown is pretty much over now;
Our parents are asking ‘Aaargh.. we still need to entertain the kids – but how?
They won’t be back in school til September
By then there won’t be a bit of homeschooling they remember!’

Oh well. Til then we remain grateful and happy
For our friends, our neighbours and our family.
Because throughout all this we’ve got to know them better and love them more
And to be honest, we can’t really remember what life was like before.

Amanda, Ben, Tristan (3EE) and Zac (1EE) Reed
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Climbing trees and enjoying our daily exercise
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Having fun in the woods on one of our daily walks
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Walking through the city centre just before the shops reopened
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Walking through the deserted city centre

Tomás Paiva Valcarcel 1FE (and Helena)

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Distance learning with Patati and Patata
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Making rainbows, laughing and enjoying the weather
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Trying tree pose in one of our family adventures looking for new places
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There was cooking, baking, eating... and learning how to crack an egg
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Tomás became very curious about paper sizes and created a A0 paper using A4. He then wrote a note about it to Mrs Slade.

Thea Oxley 4EE

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Football in the company of Waffles the dog
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Sitting at the computer all day. Not just minecraft ;-)

​Sophie Salazar-Tanguy 4EE

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Just before lockdown, panic-buyers left us with no toilet paper
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Home schooling. Not always easy to concentrate with a noisy little brother...
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I did loads of cool school projects
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I have spent hours baby-sitting my baby brother so that my parents could both work. Lockdown helped us bonding, and although he is sometimes annoying, we also had a lot of fun together.
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Lots of cooking in family throughout the lockdown

Sophia Brent 4DE

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​Sonia and Nora Reinhard 4DE and RDE

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Nora climbing
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Nora Having some fun with a rocket on the fields
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Sonia Unicorn drawn following instructions from #DrawWithRob
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The frog was drawn by Nora as part of home schooling about the life cycle of a frogs.
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Sonia Willbur drawn following instructions from #DrawWithRob
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Sonia and Nora making biscuits
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Sonia and Nora reading the the Biff, Chip and Kipper books to write on the tiles afterwards as part of home schooling
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Sonia Planting courgettes
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Sonia spending her time in the hammock gone to the world of witches and wizards

​Sarah and Sophie Klantschnig 6DE and 4DE

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Daily morning exercise with Joe
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We built and painted a new table for our lockdown meals
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We did a lot of cooking, here with Oma.
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Forest school
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And loads of time to relax in nature

Ruben Suman RDE

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Making a rocket
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RDE Virtual Film Party
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Climbing straw bales
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Lots of bike rides
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Piano practice
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Playing in the river

Richard and Maddie Fitzgerald 4FE and RFE

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During the Coronavirus lockdown, we had to do our school work at home. It was nowhere near as fun as being at school.
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But we spent lots of time outside and watched tadpoles turn into frogs....
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saw beautiful rainbows on our walks....
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and got lots of chances to ride our bikes!
Richie wrote a poem about lockdown

Coronavirus stops us from going to school.
Our school is closed and empty.
Restrictions mean I can’t see my friends.
Or go to shops or restaurants.
Now I’m getting bored of being at home.
Animals started Coronavirus.
Viruses are dangerous.
I wish it had never started.
Right now, I could be having fun at school.
Up on the climbing frames.
Seeing my friends and teachers again will be a great day.
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And Maddie wrote a letter to her teacher
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And we got to the end of the school year still smiling!

Quentin Chapeau 4FE (and little sister Tylia)

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Cooking
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Exercise in the garden
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Homeschooling
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Rainbow
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Unexpected visitors in our garden
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Many walks and cycle rides
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Yoga

Penelope Sorenson S3D

​We have a cat that comes to our house and demands food twice a day. He/ she is really cute but is such a scaredy cat. My mum and sister named him/ her Bagheera. During lockdown we also bought a huge watermelon and when we weighed it it was over 10 kg and that was after we cycled home carrying it! Almost every year we have bought tomato plants, we have gone away every time they have started to give fruit so this year because we can't go away we bought 6 tomato plants, 3 cucumber plants and 2 chili plants.
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Olivia Watson-Paris 5DE

The best bit about lockdown for me was baking; these are only some of the things that we made.
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These are all vegan yummys (apart from the filling in the doughnuts). The flapjacks are made of banana so we didn't need to use so much sugar. Picture 4 is herby oven-baked bread using a  recipe that I made up myself.
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Banana 'n blueberry (low sugar) flapjacks
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Chocolate 'n Nut brownies
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Fathers day doughnuts
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Herby oven-baked bread

Oliver, Alfred and Thomas 4EE, 2EE and soon to be REE

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Do you recognise where I am Safely learning how to use my bicycle pedals around the school car park and bus lane on a Sunday!
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Free at last.. to run, run and run!
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Taking cuttings of Rosemary and watching them grow roots in the water bottle.
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The weekly Thursday clap for the NHS and key workers. My little Ninja warriors with their face masks!

Noah Beckmann 1DE

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Ice cream in the car boot café
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Lots of arts and crafts
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Lots of cuddle-time
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Picnics and camping in the garden
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Science lesson with mum
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Swimming in the Thames
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Things I loved during lockdown

Nico Skoda 3DE

During the lockdown, I liked being able to do flips on the trampoline in my breaks.  I’ve also jumped and flipped into the river near our house – it wasn’t even cold!

My favourite book has been Animalcolm by David Baddiel.  It was fun.

Spending so much time with my family has been a bit weird but also nice.  My 2-year-old brother tries really hard to join in my games.

My greatest achievement in lockdown has been a 2.5 backflip,it is a trick I’ve been wanting to do for a long time.  It’s a challenging trick, and I needed to develop my skills to do it.

I miss seeing my friends.  I’m looking forward to seeing them again.
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Gymnastics by the river
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Learning about medieval knights
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Trampolining

Matthew Dennis 2FE

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Martin, Alexander and Max Ludden S3D, 5DE and 2DE

Here's a glimpse into some of our pursuits during lockdown. 

One of the things the three boys really enjoyed was doing science experiments. There was also plenty of baking, gardening, outdoor exploring and music going on. Thank you to all the teachers for keeping the boys going and inspiring them throughout this tricky time.
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Alexander loves baking pizza
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Alexander's lock down poem
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Flour supply secured
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Reading experiment instructions in German
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Martin and Max - blowing out a candle with carbon dioxide
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Rainbow experiment
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Max pond dipping
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Martin's art
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Volcano in the grass Alex, Max and a dinosaur, of course!
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Garden helpers
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Home made pizza
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Newt in the pond
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Sowing carrot seeds

Marcus Barthe 6DE

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Going out and about with his brother Oliver
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Jumping on the trampoline

Maé, Manon and Zian Pang Ravinet S2F, 6FE and 3FE

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Enjoying daily outdoor walks and cycling together
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Home schooling with home working mum (4 laptops on kitchen table…)!
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Manon cycling to school for her last few weeks in year 6!
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Painting for NHS and keyworkers

​Lyra Hawkins 1EE

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Camping out
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Day at the beach

Louis Jenkinson 1EE

Shortbread recipe

I made lots of short bread during the lockdown with my mummy. Here is the recipe.

Ingredients:             Makes 20-24 shortbread
125g butter
180g plain flour
50g caster sugar

Method:
1. Pre heat oven to 190° C

2. Beat the butter and the sugar together until smooth.

3. Stir in flour to get a smooth paste. Turn onto a work surface and gently roll out until the paste is 1 cm thick.

4. Cut into star, heart or rounds and place onto a baking tray. Sprinkle with caster sugar and chill in the fridge for 20 minutes.
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5. Bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes or until pale golden brown, set aside to cool on a wire rack.
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Collecting Year 1 work from school
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Zoom with new teachers
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Lily Mae Glenn-Pearce 1EE

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Lily Mae has lost weekly activities such as swimming, riding, clubs. But zoom has been great with crafts, weekly talent show (always involving live tricks on the trampoline!), clubs, acting and of course joe wicks. On lily's birthday she was reunited with her favourite horse, Bryn, at RDA!

​Leila Fass S3F

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Leila has learnt to make friendship bracelets to send to friends she isn’t seeing every day

​Julie Teobaldi Heride RFE (to be)

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Things that were important to me during lockdown

Leila and Yacin Benbakhti 6FE and 4FE

Hey Covid!

Hey Covid!
On, I’m gonna turn you off
Me, I don’t have your dirt
Hey, but it would really hurt
School is banned, we can’t see each other
Could do it at home with other means
How do you do these dirty schemes
Oh oh! It’s because you’re mean
Or oh! I might get oofed
Lonely, some people are now
So so lonely, so stop this please!

By Yacin Benbakhti 4FE

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​Leighton Thomas 1EE

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During lockdown I did a lot of Cosmic Kids Yoga ...
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... learnt how to bake cookies ...
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... bounced on the trampoline every day ...
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... had lots of water fights with my mum and dad ...
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... had Zoom calls with my class ...
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... explored empty-Oxford ...
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... and dressed very smartly for home-school!

Leena Saloni Tecza 3DE

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Daily walk on Port Meadow
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Gymnastics practice
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Home-schooling - make your own fruit salad
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Leena made this Beaver's Burrow inspired by "The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe" by C.S. Lewis
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Tree climbing

​Klara Motion 1FE

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​Joshua Brent S1D

Mein Lieblingsort in Lockdown 

In der Nähe von meinem Haus gibt es einen Bach mit einer Seilschaukel. Dort macht es viel Spass zu paddeln und zu schaukeln. Manchmal baue ich auch Dämme und flute die Ufer bis es wie ein großer Teich aussieht. Besonders schön ist es an einem sonnigen Tag dahin zu gehen wenn man sich im Wasser erfrischen kann.

Auf einer Seite des Baches gibt es eine Pferdekoppel und auf der anderen Seite eine abgezäunte Waldregion. In dem Bach finde ich oft Flusskrebse und Frösche. Die ganze Landschaft an diesem Ort ist von Natur umgeben. Es macht viel Spass dahin zu gehen! Oft treffe ich mich dort mit meinen Freunden.
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​John Gamil 4FE

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Helicopter designed by John
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John baking a banana cake
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John trace sa maquette de ville

Esmé Hall REE

​Esmé Hall from REE has been Making, Baking & Growing in Lockdown.
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She has been tending tomato plants that have now grown so big ...
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... and we can see small green tomatoes now growing
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Her Nana & Papa gave her a baking book ...
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... and she has been enjoying baking us ...
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... some tasty treats.
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From her monthly Toucan box ...
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... she has made ...
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... some lovely creations!
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Esmé also took her Mum out running on quite a few occasions!

​Eva Altebaeumer 2DE

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Getting tested for Covid-19
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Taking pictures of butterflies and moths

Hugo Hueren 1DE

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At the start of the lockdown I planted a sunflower
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Now it’s summer and my sunflower is very big, but Coronavirus is still here

Imogen Twinn S4A

Lockdown Cookie Recipe

Ingredients

●      100g/4oz/1 stick softened butter
●      75g/3oz/ 1/3 cup caster sugar
●      50g/2oz/ 1/3 cup light muscovado sugar
●      1/2 tsp vanilla extract
●      1 large egg
●      150g/5oz/1 cup self raising flour
●      100g/4 oz/ 1/2 cup plain chocolate chips

​Instructions
1.     Preheat the oven to 190 C/Fan 170/Gas 5.
2.     Lightly grease 3 baking trays.
3.     Put butter and sugars into a mixing bowl and beat until evenly blended. Add vanilla extract to beaten egg then slowly add to butter and sugar mix beating well between each addition.
4.     Mix in the flour then stir in the chocolate chips.
5.     Spoon large teaspoons of mixture onto the prepared baking trays leaving room for the cookies to spread.
6.     Bake in a preheated oven for 8-10 minutes or until golden. Watch carefully as these can go from golden to brown very quickly.
7.     Leave cookies to cool on the baking tray for a few minutes (but not too long or they stick) then carefully lift onto a cooling rack with a palette knife.
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​Isabelle, Joshua and Safiyah Missa 1FE

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Our own mini-1FE class at home
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Playing games outside and in the pool.
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We've done P.E. with Joe every day!
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We're now expert chefs!
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Painting and crafting in the garden. Face painting by Mummy.

Dean Bloore 2FE

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Had my 7th birthday during lockdown
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Went strawberry picking
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Learnt to paddle board
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Looked after horses
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Became a good baker
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And a cook!
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Canada Day celebrations on July 1st

Denis Anghel 2EE

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Dennis and Anja Georgescu 4DE and 1DE

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Anja learnt how to ride her bike and is very confident by now racing up and down the paths
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Dennis enjoying a nice campfire at night in the garden

Elena Vicencio Ortiz 1EE

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After school birthday cupcakes
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Home learning insects
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International Day at Home
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Pick your own cherries
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Message to teachers
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Deserted London
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Ella, Charlie and Pippa Wright 4EE, 2EE and REE

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Clapping (and more) for the NHS and key workers at 8pm on Thursdays
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Lots of art in the garden - Here painting mosaics on bits of fallen branch (calm kids and a welcome hour of peace for parents)
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Many happy hours reading in the new “Reading Tree” thanks to an old bit of ladder
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Releasing all the painted lady butterflies we hatched from caterpillars - a fab gift from our first Zoom Birthday party with cousins
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The end of 2EE jewel party - party dresses on and cup-cakes to share remotely (Home schooling shoved aside!)

Basil and Angus Hill S3F and 6FE

​Our family spent a lot of time going on long walks and climbing trees during the lockdown. Angus turned 11 on May 14 and we made a delicious chocolate cake covered in berries. The highlight of the lockdown was our new puppy. Her name is 'Isa', which means 'rainbow' in Chamoru, the language in Guam (where our mum is from). Our grandma chose the name for her. People were putting up pictures of rainbows to support the NHS and key workers during the lockdown, so we thought it was a good name for her. 
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​Beth Rabindran REE

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Doing some lockdown yoga!
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Making a rainbow for our window with her sister Issy

​Brodie Gray 1DE

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In lockdown I lost two teeth…
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(one of which was then lost again)
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gained a little brother….
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and did lots of cool Lego builds!

​Callum Lass Owidi 3DE

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I started most of my days reading a book while I had my breakfast. This is me reading under my bed.
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I played chess with my dad - and WON!!!
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I did my schoolwork while my parents worked from home.
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Here I am doing some DIY.
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I took my study breaks cycling with my mum.
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I helped my parents on our allotment.

​Catrina Parton S4A

Rediscovering my garden during Lockdown:

When Lockdown started and we weren’t allowed to go out for more than an hour, I ended up spending much more time in my garden. Spending so much time there has made me realise that I have been taking my garden for granted and I should appreciate it more. One of the things I really enjoyed was playing badminton, we even set up a makeshift net. Unfortunately, I kept on accidentally hitting the shuttlecock over our fence into the neighbour’s garden but luckily our neighbour was very understanding and returned them. There is a plant that was on the edge of the makeshift court, almost the size of a small tree with blue flowers. I would nearly always manage to hit that plant with my racket because it stood out from the flower bed so much. I really like that plant because of its blue flowers and I am not the only one. Lots of bees and other insects were visiting the flowers, It was full of life, we even found a white crab spider on it. Talking about flowers, my garden has a lot of them, my favourite ones are the tiger lilies, but my dad prefers the herb flowers because they attract a lot of bees.

Actually, my garden is like a small nature reserve! We have lots of plants and even a tiny meadow patch which we don’t mow, this means that our garden attracts lots of insects like bees, that’s why we decided to make a bee hotel to help the bees in our garden. While making my bee hotel I learned how to saw wood and that bees like rotting wood because it is easier to burrow in. I named my bee hotel ‘La Casa De Las Abejas’ which means the house of bees!

I have always loved my garden but over the years it just became something that I see every day and its magic faded. Over the Lockdown period, I rediscovered my garden kindling new excitement as I uncovered a hidden world of things to do and creatures to see. I have to admit that if Lockdown hadn’t butted in I definitely wouldn’t have started this new adventure!
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Bee friendly herb garden
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Bee hotel build
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Bee hotel
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Leaf cutter bee

Chris Haughton S2D

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Chris walking in Longworth
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Our most successful baking efforts; : Spanish churros with chocolate
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and Cinamon rolls

Christina Bell

​I’ve kept myself busy throughout lockdown. I’ve made Hair scrunches, hair bows, photos on candles, necklaces & bracelets. I will send another photo with the necklaces in another email because I couldn’t sent them all in one email.
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Daniel and Natalia Cooper 4EE and 2EE

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Daniel's first attempt at sushi making
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Enjoying family time on a sunny day
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Exploring the river
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First attempts at acting
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Natalia as an easy rider
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On the swing with brother...
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Picnic in a park
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Supporting the loney in the challenging time
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With a freshly painted self portrait
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With the yummy ice cream on a sunny day

Daniel Dimov 1DE

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Did some drawing in the garden. Make it more colourful and nice.
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I love going for a long walks
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Nice afternoon in our garden
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This massive picture of the space I did with my mum. Space is my favourite topic, I can talk and listen about it with hours

​Daria and Lydia Carpin 6DE and 3EE

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3DE Artwork

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S1F Cityscape Visual Texture

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Constance
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Emma

S1F Tactile Texture Landscape

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Juliette
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L'aula
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Matteo

S2D Cubist Portrait

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Charlotte G
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Natasha B
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Rosanna P
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Scarlett G

S2F Cubist Portrait

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Emily
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Marielle
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Zeilah

​S3F Still Life Tactile and Visual Texture Project

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Alice
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Darts
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Leonor
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Rose

Alicia and Emilie Alcantara S2D and 4DE 

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Playing badminton during the nice weather in April

Ben Harder 4DE

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Endless hours of lonely football in the garden...

Anna Viehhauser S5A

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Europa School

Emily, Seb and Jake Rawes, S7, S5A and S3F

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Isobel and Duncan Adam 5DE and 2DE

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Leo Gonzalez-Merckx S1F

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He decided to take up the double bass as a lockdown challenge, having lessons via Zoom with his teacher.

Solomon Dann 1FE

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Evening swimming in the river (instead of my swimming lesson) is brilliant!

Lilian Jones 2FE

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Europa in Hama Beads

Victor Gandra 1EE

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Missing his school friends during lockdown

Abel Pronk 2DE

​We often drew silly pictures of each other after dinner
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Alex Salendre 1FE

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Enjoying pool in the garden in the absence of holiday trips!
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Lots of exercise at Grove recreation ground with brother Zach, Mummy and Daddy
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Keeping up his martial arts over Zoom calls
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Street dressing up for putting the bins out and sharing photos on the street WhatsApp group became a weekly tradition throughout lockdown to keep spirits up!
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Taking part in the Covid-19 sKID study when back at school two days a week

Amalia and Theo Rowley 5DE and 3DE

Learning, living and special events
O​nly to disappear
C​ovid-19 is here, this is just common sense
K​nowing that the end of this is near
D​igging for the solution
O​bserving every tiny thing
W​ith positivity, brains and belief we will find the resolution
N​ever give-up and always try and an end to this we’ll bring

​Amalia Rowley 5DE
Theo's lockdown hair styles before mum found the courage to cut it.
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​Yaman Alfarhan S2F

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Amélie and William Walton S2F and S1F

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Flying high...
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Kayaking on the Thames near the Wittenham Clumps
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Paddle boarding on the Thames
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Lots of baking & cooking...
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Painting & redecorating old furniture
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S2F Project Week - Art using natural materials from the garden

​Amelie and Zoe Morgan-Smith 6FE and 4FE

Hi! My name is Amelie. I found that lockdown was really boring and annoying because I was stuck at home and personally I don't like homeschooling but also because I really missed my friends. Now is better because I am going to school though not all of my friends come or they are in different groups. A couple of positive things are that I find I appreciate my friends and school more. 

STAY SAFE 
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Megan Matthiesen S1D

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Danny Hinch 1DE

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Woodland walks ...
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... with my little brother

​Livia and Freya Posner 3DE and RDE

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Al fresco art - Freya
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Al fresco art - Livia
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Illuminated letters
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Tree climbing
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Marbling
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Marbled sheet

​Santiago Smith 3EE

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​Orion Pamela S2F

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​Theo Gerbery 2EE (and his sister Adela)

Elderflower cordial :-) 

2,5 litres boiled water 
40-50 elderflower heads (stalks trimmed) 
2-3 lemons peeled skin off
1 - 2 tea spoon of citric acid 
2 kg sugar (Demerara sugar) 

Method: 

Don’t wash the flowers, just leave them outside for 1-2 hours on paper to get little bugs run away :-) and after put the flowers in cool boiled water together with lemons (cut circles and I peel skin off) and leave it for 2 days in cold place or fridge. 

2 days later strain and discard the blossom. Line a colander with a clean tea towel or muslin cloth then sit it over a large bowl or pan and after you take flowers and lemons out let it drip slowly through so all the dirt and bugs stays there. Mix it with 2 kg of sugar and 1-2 teaspoon of citric acid and stir till sugar dissolve. Don’t boil. Put ready cordial to clean and dry bottles!!! 

Ready immediately. Dilute to taste with water, extra lemon, mint and ice or use net as a flavouring. It makes a delicious gin fizz :-) - just add ice, soda water and gin! 

​Store in the fridge. 
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Turning 7 during lockdown
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​Theo would love to share his first story he wrote in year 2. It is about him and his best friend Iciar and they went to Kenya for an adventure :-) He was so exited to send it to Mrs Cook when he finished it.
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Olivia Vautrin 3FE​

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Though lockdown felt long at times, Olivia spent some wonderful days outside (thank you sun!). Some of the best bits were paddle-boarding near Standlake ...
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... and practicing high jumps at Rollright Stones!

​Lucas Jones Bauer 3EE

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Building the Titanic with wood

Annabella Gutiérrez Bear 5DE

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​Millicent Achterbergh RDE

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Mila Kalsey RDE

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Harvesting radishes she planted
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Using the adding monster she made to do her maths sheets

​Mila and Gabriel Pavlov 5DE and 2FE

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​Lukas and Sofia Kolaveri 2DE and RDE

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​Arthur and Wilfred Jarrett 4EE and 1EE

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​Lorenzo Belci 4EE

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Lorenzo has joined the Football Beyond Borders Challenge and has been cycling and running to raise money which will help troubled children through football
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Enjoying piano and guitar lessons on Zoom
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Lots of Baking
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My Town Project
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Recycling poster
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Dali self portrait

​Keiza Shorney RFE

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We learnt about mosaics
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We learnt all about Alice in Wonderland from the Royal Ballet website, and made a theatre with changeable scenery
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We made an origami garden
​And we made a record player which really works!

​Henry and Eddie Joslyn 6FE and 3FE

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The Rainbow we made at the start of lockdown
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Eddie doing his online lesson

Frieda Uhlig S1D

This is the doll that I made.
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Eloise and Emily Abel Bleach 5DE and 4DE

Tooty Fruity Tartlets And Jam Tarts
Ingredients:
  • Plain flour ( 335g)
  • Diced butter ( 150g )
  • 1 pinch of salt
  • Lemon curd
  • Jam
  • Fruit ( any fruit can do )
  • Icing sugar ( for decoration )
  • 2 to 3 tbsp water
Method:
  1. Sift the flour into a large bowl, Add the butter and rub it in with your fingers until it looks like fine breadcrumbs.
  2. Stir in a pinch of salt and add the water. Mix it to a firm dough.
  3. Knead the dough briefly on a floured surface.
  4. Wrap the dough in cling film and chill for 10 minutes.
  5. Get out a muffin tin or a tartlet tray and butter it.
  6. Roll out the dough till it is 0.5 cm and cut out circles with a drinking glass.
  7. Press the circles gently into the tin. They should be a bowl shape.
  8. Put a spoon of jam in half of the tartlets. And bake everything for 12-15 minutes.
  9. The jam tarts are ready. They are best eaten warm, but cool a little first.
  10. Let the empty tartlets cool. Put a spoon of lemon curd in them.
  11. Chop up fruit. You can also use berries. Put them on top.
  12. Sprinkle on icing sugar.
ENJOY!!
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We’ve been busy making a herb garden and bug hotel
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We have also been practising lots of gymnastics
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​Elisa Mazzei 1EE

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​Clarissa Ballam S4A

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Black Lives Matter protest at home
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Clarissa made banners and displayed them at the front of the house

Claire and Adrien Storck S4B and S1F

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​Anya Hall 3EE

Anya has got really into sewing in lock down and a friend of ours (Andrea Fabric) who makes blinds & curtains has written about her on her blog.
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Amelia and Theo Griffith S2D and 4DE

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Breakfast in bed on a slow morning
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Collecting tadpoles as supplemental learning
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Washing windows at home
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Socially-distanced protesting #RhodesMustFall
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Socially-distanced birthday party
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Water gun fights in the garden
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Working on the sofa next to papa and dog
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Zoom catch ups

Roshan Jeevan S3D

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Cycling through traffic free Oxford

Nila Jeevan and Mila Pavlov 5DE

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Alba Hales REE

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Walks with the family
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Explored the life cycle of butterflies
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Lots of fun in the garden
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Lots of crafts

​Francesca Betz and Miranda Betz S4A and 6DE

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​We were allowed to leave home for exercise for an hour a day during lockdown so we took the opportunity to go for cycle rides. Then one day, as we were cycling up to a familiar street at the top of a hill, we suddenly noticed its street sign: “Lockdown”. Having never given it a second glance before, it now caught our eye. The “O” and “C” were the same size as the other letters but on a whiter background, and for a moment we couldn’t remember what it should have said. Just a few days later, on our next ride, those two letters had already been removed. Lockdown was still in full force but this was Larkdown after all.

Francesca Betz S4A

​I look outside my bedroom window from my desk, the place where I have spent lockdown. The view isn’t pretty, but it is the one that is most familiar to me. All day every day I see bluish-grey roofs of different heights and angles. Each one ends with a black gutter and white fascia separating the roof from the walls of orange and grey bricks. These are then interrupted by white-framed windows at which I sometimes see blinds go up or down and know that these people, like me, are in lockdown, stuck in their homes. Every day is the same and for many weeks they have had no-one to see but each other, or occasionally the people they spot through their windows. Unless I open my window to look out towards a distant spire and countryside, all I can see are these houses, a glimpse of trees and the sky. Nevertheless it is my favourite place. It is here that my friends see me on video call, my face bleached white by the light. It is here that I receive my work and my marks. It is here that I pass my tests taken on Google Forms. It is here that I have sat for over thirteen weeks from eight in the morning until after five in the afternoon. Even after lockdown ends I will continue to sit here as I do my homework and if I glance up, I will gaze out of my window for a while, remembering the days when it was my only view as I sat working.
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2DE Smoothies against Lockdown Blues

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Anika Hill
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Anika Hill
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Anika Hill
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Benjamin Wilson
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Carolina Patricio
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Duncan Adam
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Duncan Adam
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Emilia Hall
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Esila Ulas
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Eva Altebaeumer
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Jakub Rumianowski
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Julian Maschek
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Lukas Kolaveri
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Lilly Feuerborn
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Magali Vogels
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Maria Hauler
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Maria Hauler
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Max Ludden
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Max Tomlin
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Oskar Gerring
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Oskar Gerring
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Peter Hodgson
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Peter Hodgson
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Selene Hannes
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Viola Correnti
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Viola Correnti
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Giulia Nassivera
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Abel Pronk
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Jeremy Obhiozele
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Rosa Ireland
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Jenson Schradi

Alexandra Peter 2EE

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Lonely Cat in the Rain
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Cat and Dog Playing a Boogie Together

Rosa Ireland 2DE

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​Pearl Estrella Arnaud 1FE 

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The Rabbit, the Rainbow and the Tree Roots

​Max Gonzalez-Merckx 4EE

Lockdown
 
Lockdown since Easter
Hasn’t been all bad
​No more school
We’ve bought a pool
But some things made me sad
 
I miss my friends and teachers’ aid
Without them, school is hard
There’s no more clubs
I do miss cubs
From family we are barred
Thank goodness for the sunny weather
It’s helped to see the sun
We’ve played outside
And done bike rides
The tree house has been fun!
 
So here’s to times with no more COVID
And we go back to school
No more Zoom
Class in a room
That really will be cool!
 
Max Gonzalez-Merckx (and his mum!)

​Oscar and Max Curry 4EE and REE plus Gabriella

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Junk modelling: the boys made a boat!
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Lots of family game nights. Roald Dahl Monopoly, the children’s favourite.
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P.E. with Joe everyday; this was Fancy Dress Friday.

​Micaela and Iciar Audibert 3EE and 2EE

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Micaela learnt to crochet - here is her amazing dragon.
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Micaela made chocolate and hazelnut surprises with gluten free puff pastry and marshmallow
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Iciar's birthday
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Picking up Pablo on his first day of nursery
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Iciar also learnt to crochet - here is her pouch
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Iciar also made chocolate and hazelnut surprises
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Iciar's crochet keyring
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​Louis and Lennard Anderson 3DE and 1DE

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Isabelle Shaw 1FE

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Singing Happy Birthday on Zoom with my friends for my 6th birthday.
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A picture I drew of my favourite things we have done in lockdown.
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PE with Joe
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Still smiling!
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Enjoying spending time outside with my little brother. Here we are making seed pizzas for the birds.

Clara Altebaeumer 4DE

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Poster for town fête for Town project

Ariana Sierra-Fernandez 3FE

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​Ariana worked created her own YouTube channel during the lockdown and uploaded a short movie that she made. Here she is working on the script.

Olivia Feldon 4EE

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Whilst on lockdown Olivia designed a castle for her Lego friends.   

It features 250 corks aligned composing a long driveway, leading to a cork maze. Following on the driveway Lego friends find the Spires, a three-story cork castle with views to the cork playground.

It is important to note no wine has suffered in this experiment. Finally, something for the whole family to enjoy during lockdown!

Emma and Archie S1F and 5FE

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​Alexander and Benjamin 3DE and 1DE

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Some fun art projects ...
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... set by our teachers
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Footprint unicorn
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Monitoring the growth of the bean plant
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Home schooling. Some days were less productive than others!
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Bohnen Tagebuch
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PE with Alba
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After many months of waiting, finally time to harvest some veggies
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Writing a letter to author Paul Maar and eagerly hoping for a reply...
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Emily 4DE

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Charlotte 4EE

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4EE Girls - learning Spanish verbs via Zoom - Charlotte, Sophie, Ella and Serena
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Dancing Ballet online and in the kitchen
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Painted Stones for the NHS and key workers
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Water Cycle Experiment
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Doing Rhythmic Gymnastics online and practising her splits
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Water Cycle instructions
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Experimenting with different flavour ice lollies and enjoying them in the garden with Henri □
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Doing a daily walk with her sisters and Henri on the fields.

Chloe 4FE

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Hugo 2FE

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Roman RFE

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Jasmine S1F

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Serena 4EE

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Hosting a cupcake bake
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Cupcakes!

Tilly and Hattie 1FE and 4FE

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Tilly and Hattie’s classroom during lockdown
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Fishing for tadpoles for their DOW projects
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Different stages of a tadpole
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Pond dipping
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Catching newts
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Planting out the sweetcorn at the allotment helped to understand the lifecycle and reproduction of plants
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Found a tortoise in our allotment. 1FE were studying reptiles so they had a great subject to study while we found the owners!
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The amazing Dolphin Lagoon Hotel designed by Tilly (4FE) as part of an architectural project set by Mrs Jameson
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Letter from Hattie to Mrs Slade. She really missed her teachers and friends.

Arabella S4A

Letter to Self

Dear Future Self,

I, who am you, am sitting in a sunlit hallway on a glorious day in a world that has changed beyond anything I have known, our parents have known or even their parents have known. This change has been made by something so small;  you cannot see it, touch it or smell it but it has altered my world and consequently created the world that you live in. I wanted to put into words my feelings and also describe the things we have known but, that for your children, will have never been. 

Imagine having to wake up and rush to get dressed because you overslept and have to go to school; having to commute at least two hours to get to work or to be stuck in traffic jams. Seeing hovering clouds of car fumes in the cities whilst every two minutes planes would fly towards Heathrow airport. People bustling on the streets, crowded into trains, and swarming through the station. That was the world that I knew for fourteen years and it changed overnight, just like that, in mid march 2020.


All because of the thing we could not see that started to kill thousands of people. Coronavirus. Covid-19.


From your perspective those thousands may have become millions. Friends, Families and Colleagues gone and the world changed beyond my understanding.  In the few weeks we have been in lockdown self isolation I have seen school reformed into distance learning, parents working from home, food being delivered on empty roads which have become a new normality.  I honestly don’t know what I have been feeling for the past two weeks. Most times I was feeling happy about being at home spending more time with my family. Even enjoying arguing about who won that round of Monopoly but sometimes I felt pure sadness and fear. Fear for our family, Uncles and Aunts working as Doctors in the NHS and my cousins in America. I have many questions but the main one is, why is this happening? I am guessing that my question will never really have an answer not now nor ever. It will always be a strange mystery.


A virus is another form of life, alien to our own but part of our planet.


I hope for you, who is me, that the pollution I knew has never returned. I hope transport has become cleaner and efficient and that health and caring for the world has become more important. Hopefully the world learnt new values.


Take care, make the right choices and try to remember when you sat in our sunlit hallway writing this letter thinking about life.


Your Past S
elf

​Arabella Meyer
-O’Kane 

Sally Lloyd (TA) 3FE

Isolation deliberation, April 2020

As I have time to ponder and cogitate, dig and plant
As I reflect and declutter, meditate and chant,
I have the time to draw and the space to sew
I have good books to read and time to watch the grass grow.
I think and I thank and I cook and I clean
and I wonder out loud 'what does all this mean'?
I am isolated 
within the walls of my world with my family and some friends
I am liberated 
from the commute to and from school, work and errands
I feel dominated 
by the news and the rules and the politician's views
It has escalated
I wait for daily numbers, graphs and images of exhausted NHS staff.

As I take stock of my situation 
and that of the wider population
I cannot grumble or complain, whine or moan 
I have a garden, a dog, a mind and mobile phone
I am in contact with family and friends
more regularly than usual to which positivity lends.
I am able and happy, fit and alive
I can work, I have space, I can feel the sun, I hope to survive 

As the days and weeks go by, 
I exchange news with those at home and abroad and collectively we sigh
with relief that we are well and safe locked inside
with sadness for those who have struggled and died
with fear for what is still to come,
and with gratitude for those on the frontline who battle and succumb.

Reality hits and happiness plunges, down and lower, then lower again
As the death toll rises, more families bereft and unable to share their pain
No goodbye, no last kiss, no hand holding, no whispers from a loved one
Their last human contact was with a masked and gloved someone 
No wakes, no gatherings and celebrations of life
Simply the burial of mum, dad, son, daughter, husband or wife
The undertaker being the sole witness to the final goodbye
Alone in their sorrowful stillness silently marking who, when and why

This is an unprecedented situation,
a deadly virus sweeping the nation,
A result of greedy globalisation,
A pandemic, a reaping, a realisation
A moment in time, history in the making
A chance to learn while the earth is shaking
Take and deep breath, concentrate on the positive
lockdown sign posts changes to the way we live.

As I ponder and dig and I stitch and I draw
I remind myself of the good things beyond the closed door
And I pray and I hope and I talk and discuss
Of the way that the lessons of Covid can help all of us. 
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