What it's like inside schools as children return after six months away
It's the Year 7 assembly at Newman RC College in Oldham - but every single pupil is sat at their classroom desks and not in the school hall.The welcoming message of assistant headteacher Nicola Foley is broadcast through the speakers as the pupils sit listening on tables of two facing the same direction. It's the first day the school has reopened to all pupils since it closed six months ago in March.And it's the first day many of the Year 7s have ever step foot inside the building.It's a nerve-racking experience for children starting high school during normal times, let alone during a global pandemic with strange new rules like wearing masks in the corridors."Today is the start of great things for you", Nicola reassures her pupils during