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KINGSWOOD PREP IN FOCUS 2020-21 | THE GARDEN AT KINGSWOOD
THE GARDEN AT KINGSWOOD Over the last 18 months every area of education has been negatively impacted by the COVID pandemic.
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hildren from Reception through to students at university have had their lives affected and their learning disrupted in a way that nobody could have predicted or would have wanted. However, for our youngest children in The Garden at Kingswood it has happily been very much ‘business as usual’, albeit with far more frequent handwashing! The children have adapted remarkably well to some of the changes that we have had to make to ensure that we all stay as safe as possible. Dropping off babies and toddlers at the front door to staff
would have been unthinkable prepandemic but the children adapted quickly (and so did the parents) and it became perfectly normal for them to say goodbye with barely a glance over their shoulders. Social distancing is a tricky concept for a baby or toddler to grasp so the Nursery was perhaps the only place outside home ...for our youngest where cuddles children it has happily and hugs been very much were both 'business as acceptable usual'... and expected!
