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Coronavirus: Downing Street press conference May 16th; ENGLAND: London: Westminster: Downing Street: INT Press conference part 2 of 12 Gavin Williamson MP (Education Secretary) statement SOT. - At this time of year GCSE and A level students would have been making final preparations for their exams, while others were enjoying their summer term. If you are one of them, can I say how sorry I am that this has happened to you this year. The sacrifices that you and all young people have made have been especially tough. It is now almost eight weeks since we asked schools, nurseries and colleges to close to all but a small number of children. Once again I would like to say an enormous thank you to all the school, college and childcare staff who have been going above and beyond the call of duty to care for smaller groups of children of critical workers, vulnerable children as well as making sure there are resources available at home for children to learn, interacting with them and making sure that children know you are there for them. You have been simply outstanding and we’re so grateful for what you have done. We have been quite clear all along, that we would only start inviting more children back into schools when our five key tests had been met. That position has not changed and it is what is guiding our actions. But we do want to see all children back in school because we know how much children grow and benefit from being in school. We can now start the planning for a very limited return to schools for some pupils potentially as early as next month. Let me explain how this will work because I know that some people, including parents and teachers, are very anxious about this. If the rates of infection are decreasing, it will give us a green light to get children back into childcare and more of them back into school from 1 June. As part of a cautious phased return, those in Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 will be allowed back into schoo...
Coronavirus: Downing Street press conference May 16th; ENGLAND: London: Westminster: Downing Street: INT Press conference part 2 of 12 Gavin Williamson MP (Education Secretary) statement SOT. - At this time of year GCSE and A level students would have been making final preparations for their exams, while others were enjoying their summer term. If you are one of them, can I say how sorry I am that this has happened to you this year. The sacrifices that you and all young people have made have been especially tough. It is now almost eight weeks since we asked schools, nurseries and colleges to close to all but a small number of children. Once again I would like to say an enormous thank you to all the school, college and childcare staff who have been going above and beyond the call of duty to care for smaller groups of children of critical workers, vulnerable children as well as making sure there are resources available at home for children to learn, interacting with them and making sure that children know you are there for them. You have been simply outstanding and we’re so grateful for what you have done. We have been quite clear all along, that we would only start inviting more children back into schools when our five key tests had been met. That position has not changed and it is what is guiding our actions. But we do want to see all children back in school because we know how much children grow and benefit from being in school. We can now start the planning for a very limited return to schools for some pupils potentially as early as next month. Let me explain how this will work because I know that some people, including parents and teachers, are very anxious about this. If the rates of infection are decreasing, it will give us a green light to get children back into childcare and more of them back into school from 1 June. As part of a cautious phased return, those in Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 will be allowed back into schoo...
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