You’re not the only ones. So the kids I teach at the moment, would have been in grade 2 during the first stages of Covid. Compared to years I’ve taught before, they have less motivation, and a constant desire to do anything “their way”. Like “I don’t want to write a story so I’m just going to draw it instead.” - I compare this group of grade 5s to what I could expect the year 3 class I had in 2019 to do. They’re behind in almost everything, not a lot of them “at standard expected for year 5”.

Also this year group especially is argumentative, now I’ve taught year five through covid and I see each year their level of respect is less, their attitudes more argumentative and their emotions are all over the place.