Has it been six weeks now? Six weeks since those unsettling final pick-ups, as schools, nurseries and childminders closed their doors to most of us with no idea when they might be allowed to open again? It feels like six months, but it really has only been six weeks, just the length of the summer holidays, but it hasn’t felt much like the summer holidays, has it?
On that final day, outside our four-year-old’s bright and comfortingly noisy reception classroom, I wondered if he would ever spend a day with you again, hanging onto your every word, trying to impress you and learning so much from you. And when would he next get to play with the friends he had spent the past six months or so making in this warm, wonderful place?
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