Lockdown Looms: Reggie's Birthday Party

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First thing we will do is another deep clean and I will look for things to do around the pub”, he said. “There’s always any opportunity to improve the business during these times.

Keith Treggiden, manager of Rendezvous, Royal Oak and Slug and Lettuce, said the news was "gutting" and could have a "catastrophic" effect on some businesses. Alexander also recalls the negative impacts of the pandemic he saw reflected in his students. He mentions higher levels of anxiety, gained weight, and countless hours online as the main factors that affected his students. Alexander says, “Children were looking at things online and not being happy with themselves because they're comparing themselves to the sort of forced reality that they're seeing online.” Mr Dunster said: “We have had a lot of support from local people who have wanted to support local businesses like ours and that has been a boast. And in Wales nightclubs will close after Christmas, and social distancing and outdoor mixing is being strongly encouraged. Banji’s teaching career started as a student at IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, where he undertook a placement in a school with disadvantaged pupils - an experience that Banji says prepared him fully for his career in the classroom. “I think the opportunity to train and do my placement at a very challenging school really set me in good stead for the rest of my teaching career and gave me the skills needed to teach anywhere,” he explains.A return to working from home and wearing masks will prevent some opportunities for the virus to spread. But that’s highly unlikely to be enough. The next day, the boy texted the professor: “I wish to apologise for anything I might have said or done last night.” The pro forma tone suggests it was sent to many people, and many times before.) Fertiliser, insecticide, food, essential goods, medical equipment, daily essentials, kitchen markets, restaurants, drug stores, hospitals and the media would also remain out of the purview of the shutdown. He told The Daily Star yesterday that the success would depend on how effectively the measures were implemented. "In the past, we have seen such measures exist only on papers."

Mr Alexander is hoping his book will be used by other schools and has already received supportive messages about the book from headteachers and librarians and the impact it has had on their learners.

Labour and the broadcast media will nudge ministers to go further; the vast majority of voters will comply. We have normalised the extraordinary, accepting as inevitable phenomena that contradict the fundamentals of what I was taught was the British way of life, such as snooping, emotionalism and invasive policing. Someday, we’ll have to sit down with a pencil and paper and rewrite our national myth. A return to measures that we were living with in April would be needed to stop hospitals being overwhelmed. This time needs to be used to enable mass test and trace systems and the development of a long-term strategy to dealing with this pandemic. The important messages in the book are of kindness and resilience, patience, gratitude and adapting to change. But the shutdown was not properly implemented, especially during the Eid festivals when tens of thousands people left Dhaka for their village homes. Besides, the garment factories were allowed to operate.

Alexander says, “I think more personally to me for what I've taken away from writing the book is that anything is possible because writing this book has changed my life completely. One minute I was teaching, the next minute, I was on the biggest news stations here: BBC News, ITV News, Sky News, Guardian Newspaper. It literally changed my life overnight.” While juggling teaching and writing amidst a pandemic brought its challenges, Banji reflects on that period with pride. “By writing the book, I was able to turn a negative into a positive and inspire and motivate my learners in a creative way. It was a real career highlight for me,” he says. Laying the groundwork But even if the risk of serious disease is lower than in previous waves hospitals could still be overwhelmed because of the high rate of infections. During his book tour, Alexander developed a group called Banji’s Class. Forty five students from nine different schools in London make up the group. The group’s main focus is acting, dancing, and singing with a little rap mixed. The group falls in line with Alexander’s love of music and his former aspiration to be a musician himself. He says there is no greater feeling than helping someone realize they can do something they didn’t think possible, and that is what his experience has been with Banji’s Class.I think that for children to reach their full potential within education, it's important that there is a diverse pool of educators who are creating and leading the curriculum and who also understand the social-economical situation in which their learners are coming from,” Alexander says. His favourite character is the “Spaghetti Connoisseur”, who is loosely based on his teenage self, when he had a weekend supermarket job.