Don't miss a thing by getting the latest from the Manchester Evening News sent direct to your inbox It's safe to say that there hadn't been a school year like it.
Yet for my daughter and thousands of her peers it was the first experience of full time education. The reception class of 2019/2020 was unique in that as soon as the little ones found their feet and were really getting into school life - in came lockdown.
While you could argue that a similar situation happened again to their 2020/2021 successors, there was certainly a period of 'what on Earth are we going to do?' in spring of last year that hasn't exactly been repeated.
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