With the new school year fast approaching, pupils and parents across the land are checking uniforms still fit, buying new shoes and making sure pencil cases are full.
But while all this is familiar territory for families, other things won't be quite the same when children return.
Because, over the summer, many of the restrictions that schools have been operating under since Covid struck have been relaxed.
While the virus is still prevalent in the UK, the success of the vaccine programme has reduced the threat it poses.
And with children at so little risk of serious illness, it means that their education - with all its benefits for their mental health - can continue in a similar way to pre-pandemic times.
As Covid restrictions in the classroom ease, there are changes pupils - and 카지노사이트추천 parents - can expect at school and colleges when they return
When children return they will find bubbles gone, social distancing ended and no need to go home if a close contact tests positive for the vir
/>Instead, they can carry on with school, take a PCR test and only self-isolate if the test proves positive.
Not only will this help reduce the disruption of pupils being sent home despite not being ill, it should help parents, too, as they will no longer have to take time off work to look after their children.