Toms Story

I am Tom, I am now 12 years old, I had just turned 9 when the first lockdown was announced in March 2020.  I hated it straight away, I loved school and being with my friends.  I am dyslexic and struggle with some things that others manage well.  Online learning didn’t work for me – it just made my head fizz and I felt really lonely.  I wanted to be with all my friends and teachers, especially the special teacher who helped me make sense of everything.

I felt sadder and sadder as the lockdown went on and on and I started to forget why I ever loved school, it just felt like the adults had thrown it away and so it wasn’t really that important to go.  We went back to school properly in September, but it wasn’t the same, the rules were still there and all of us kids felt weird and didn’t know how to be like we were before.

I know it has been a long time since then but me and my friends still feel sad about it and I don’t feel like it will ever feel the same for us, this makes me sad.