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Back to school: One NQT's hopes and fears ahead of June 15

An asthma sufferer, our NQT diarist has been working from home since March 23. He is now preparing to head back into the classroom from June 15. He discusses both his anxiety and his hopes...

It is safe to say that it has been an unusual NQT year! As I sit down to write this, we are all currently faced with a lot of uncertainty about what a return to school will be like.

Being an asthma sufferer, I myself have been teaching from home since schools shut down in face of the coronvirus pandemic on March 23 to all but vulnerable students and the children of key workers. This means that, since becoming a teacher, this has been my longest period outside of a real classroom environment.

Lockdown has been long and strenuous at times, but now the time is approaching when I will be heading “back in”.

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