Lockdown Learning, back to it: Lockdown Hobbies:

Not long after, another wave would hit and we all went back into lockdown, but this time a bit better prepared and ready for it. This made us even stronger and more determined.

We wouldn’t see our friends for weeks at a time and would organise Zoom calls on some nights to catch up or help each other with work. Lots of people were scared to go back to school after lockdown because COVID was still here, but the economy was failing, so we needed to get back to some normality. Hymers made sure that everyone was kept as safe as possible and facemasks were to be worn and hand sanitiser used. If someone got COVID after that then either they would isolate along with everyone they came into contact with or the class would isolate.

While the summer of 2020 was quite pleasant because it meant that time could be spent with family in the sunshine, isolating in the wintertime was so much more difficult. In November 2020, our class went into lockdown the day before my birthday. Isolation in the winter was rather miserable due to the dreary weather and the shorter days, which meant there was less motivation for people to wake up and do school work. One of the highlights of the winter was some lovely snow days and we all took the opportunity to make snowmen.

Over lockdown many people developed hobbies to keep themselves occupied over the long periods of time alone.

Later, in February 2021, we got a chance to interview some of the Old Hymerians, which was very enjoyable.

Emily

Here are some of Emily’s: baking, reading and exercising, like walking the dogs and biking.

Florence’s hobbies consisted of: baking, photography, drawing, painting, origami.

Oscar did lots of drawings and paintings, which were AMAZING and also did some photography editing with stop motion animation, where he made his baby Yoda, which he also made walk across his house and go on an adventure!

Lucy did a lot of horse riding, tennis and art. Maud did some awesome photography, which I think should definitely be in the time capsule and enjoyed playing with her dogs and looking after her horse, going for rides and she also did some really good art.

Mine (Keira) are quite different: I enjoyed cooking rather than baking, and reading, (I read 60 books in 9 months!). I also enjoyed going for walks and writing (over lockdown I decided I was going to write a book. I started it, but I never quite finished because it just didn’t seem right, but I wrote plenty of short stories on Notes and enjoyed writing dystopian fiction in English).

We really have got some talented people in the Time Capsule Club!

Keira

Lydia enjoyed reading and writing too and she wrote an OUTSTANDING POEM, AMAZING, A-LEVEL STANDARD, FREAKISHLY GOOD!

Lyd has a true talent that really flourished over lockdown!