In the light of a Department for Education update which revealed that a number of schools are still closed to children and having to teach lessons remotely, the British Psychological Society’s Division of Educational and Child Psychology (DECP) is concerned that children who are currently not learning within school risk being ‘forgotten’ and missing out on vital social interactions with friends and peers.
The report, which also detailed a further 43 schools which have been found to have RAAC concrete, reveals that 12 schools still have not returned fully to face-to-face lessons and are operating under a ‘hybrid system’.
The Division of Educational and Child Psychology has called for urgency in ensuring all children can return to face-to-face lessons, citing the important bonds children make at school and the learning and socialisation which happens in the playground and also between children and teachers.
Expert educational and child psychologists from the DECP have stressed the importance of after-school socialising for children while they are in this ‘hybrid’ learning environment.
