As I stepped through the doorway of my form room on Monday morning, the first thing I heard was: “Miss, I’m scared.”
The tiniest member of my form was looking expectantly at me for answers: “Are they going to come to our school?” she continued.
Most people could go into work and discuss the awful terrorist attack with adults. Teachers had to go into work and somehow explain the inexplicable to thousands of scared children.
I replied with genuine confidence that they wouldn’t come to our school, but that didn’t seem to comfort her.
We spent some time during registration discussing what had happened in the London Bridge attack and talking more positively about the One Love concert that had taken place in Manchester. Most of the students had watched it and said they felt better about things knowing there was so much solidarity in the community after the recent terrorist attacks.
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