The Covid-19 pandemic moves up another notch in severity as our prime minister, Boris Johnson, last night announced that the UK is on a 3 week lock down. The only exceptions which you are allowed to leave your house are for urgent food suppliers or medication, and one outdoor exercise activity in no more than a group of two people from the same family and still maintaining social distancing! We sat and watched Boris's announcement live at 8:30pm last night and made sure the kids where with us as well so that they understand why they are being locked down for 3 weeks.
The challenge this week us to now try our best to make sure the 3 kids are doing some home schooling whilst also maintaining my working from home policy. Holly is doing really well with the home schooling, Joshua is proving problematic but is getting better, Brandon hasn't yet started as he has been poorly with a high temperature and thus bed bound for the last 2 days.
One great thing that we have got the kids involved with is the Joe Wicks P.E. class everyday at 9am. Joe is a famous body coach who has offered to stream a 20-30 min free P.E. class over YouTube everyday to get the kids active. This appears to have been an absolutely huge success and this morning there was close to a million people world wide tuning in to his stream. I think it is a real positive that someone offers up this kind of service at desperate times like this totally free of charge. It also gives parents that 30 mins to prepare for the day ahead and get the rest of the kids activities in place.
Whether the lock down lasts for 3 weeks or more is anyone's guess. A lot of people speculate it will be nearer to 12 weeks. All I can say is it is going to be a tough time for everyone involved.
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| We all sat and watched the shocking news from PM Boris about a 3 week lock down. |
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| Joe Wick's comes to the Nations rescue with live streamed PE classes every day to get kids active. |
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| Holly and Josh doing the stretching before the 2 x 10 min body weight workouts. |
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| Stretching out the quads and hammies. |
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| Following Joe Wick's instruction from YouTube on the TV. |
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| A bit of home schooling as Tina works with Holly. |
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| Joshua did some home economics today and made pizza's for everyone for lunch. |
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| He even made his own pizza base and everyone seemed to enjoy it for lunch. |
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