Year 5H

Year 5h - Learning through Lockdown

It seemed like forever since we were all together in school, but finally, August brought us back together. School looked different and not only because we had new turnstiles and a shiny new loc de joaca!

As students met their new teachers, excitement filled the air and butterflies filled tummies. Along with the shiny, brand new loc de joaca, we also had new procedures in place. Hand sanitiser, plexiglass one-way systems, separate breaks, and facemasks became part of the furniture. However, we were back in school with our friends and that was king! Until the inevitable.

We lasted 7 weeks, before gates were locked once again. We swapped the classroom for our front rooms and books for our laptops. Online learning was here again! We’d been here before, though. We knew what to expect. The students embraced their newly learned HPL values and persevered.

Learning through lockdown has proved to be testing, but it has also offered opportunity to reflect. Year 5 would like to share their learning through lockdown reflections with you here. Working online has been very different. We miss our teachers and our friends on the playground. The work we do is very different as well. We work a lot online, which can be fun, but we would like to have some normal school lessons again! When we’re in school it’s more fun and we get to work together more. We do like that we can stay in bed for longer though and that we can wear our PJs for lessons! (Cezar, Ana, Karina, Stefan & Ariana – 5H).

We would love to be back in school where we can play with our friends and have proper PE lessons! We miss everyone in school like our teachers and friends from other classes. We still have fun with our friends, but it’s usually on Whatsapp or Facetime. We talk to each other a lot; we think it’s important to still talk and have fun with our friends. (Eva, Diego, Matei, Deva & Felipe – 5H)

When we came back to school after the summer holidays, there was lots of things that were different. We couldn’t sit next to each other in lessons, we could only play with our friends in our own class, and we had to wear masks. We don’t like that last one, but we understand why it’s important! We did like some of the changes though! The new playground is AMAZING! And we think it’s a good idea that people are washing their hands more – we think we should keep this rule even after everything is back to normal. The extra break times are definitely the best change! (Fia, Iulia, Ioana, Victor & Tudor)

We are glad that school opened in August. It was different, but it was still fun, even with lots of new rules. We are also glad we can learn online even when school is closed. If we were born a long time ago, like when Mr Hawkins was at school, we wouldn’t be learning anything! We can’t wait to be back in school though. We miss the fun lessons, like when we dipped paper in coffee to make it look old or having proper assemblies! We know that it won’t be forever and that we have to have a positive attitude and in the end everything will be ok. (Lisa, Noa, Matteo, Petru & Zinca).

Mr Lee Hawkins