Sompting schoolchildren share lockdown frustrations
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The words of ‘Lockdown, lockdown, tell me when?’, by year-four children at Sompting Abbotts Prep School, in Church Lane, Sompting, tell of ‘feeling stranded’, missing friends and hugs, going ‘cross-eyed’ over Zoom and how words like ‘ventilators and flattening curves’ makes them scared.
They also talk of how they dream of playing football, flying abroad and making sandcastles. Pupils worked on the poem in virtual English lessons with teacher David Buckingham, and their parents recorded them saying their lines.
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Hide AdHeadmaster Stuart Douch said: “It’s a brilliant poem and they’re saying what children everywhere must be feeling. This winter lockdown has been doubly hard for children cooped up with the cold and the dark evenings. We’ve all been applauding our wonderful NHS and keyworkers. Maybe we should be clapping our children, too. I think they’ve been superheroes, coping with confinement, isolation and such a huge change in their normal lives and routines.”
The words Lockdown, Lockdown, Tell Me When?, in full, are:-
Lockdown, lockdown, tell me when...
...this will all, finally, end.
All my friends are kept away
Grounded, stranded, banned from play
Lockdown, lockdown, tell me when
...this will all, finally, end.
Stuck inside with brain all wired
Home school’s making me cross-eyed
Virtual lessons all by Zoom,
I just want my old classroom,
Lockdown, lockdown, tell me when...
...this will all, finally, end.
Behind closed doors, tempers flare
When can I go out somewhere?
If only I could play football
Fly abroad, make a sand-castle
Lockdown, lockdown, tell me when...
...this will all, finally, end.
Now the news makes me so scared,
Ventilators, flattening curves,
Bubbles, face masks, Covid rules,
Stay at home and stay indoors
Lockdown, lockdown, tell me when...
...how I long for this to end.
When the virus has been quelled
When the vaccines keep us well,
Friends I miss I’ll get to hug
And I’ll see the ones I love
Lockdown, lockdown, tell me when...
...this will all, finally, end.