End of term: How have West Country students coped during the pandemic

Students across the West Country are missing out on end of term celebrations this year Credit: ITV News

For many students the summer holiday has started. It has been a different end to school for most as end of schools celebrations, residential trips and proms have all been cancelled. 

At Lipson Cooperative Academy in Plymouth the students have been getting together virtually throughout the pandemic to walk, run, cycle and row all around the world.

They finished off the 40,000 km at school as the term finished.

Lipson School's 'Around the World' lockdown challenge Credit: ITV News

Headteacher Martin Brook said: "For the year 11s and the year 13s, we had all sorts of plans to say goodbye to them properly.

"We were expecting great things from them in the summer so under normal circumstances we would have had a prom, celebration assemblies and a proper chance to say goodbye and that was taken away from us."

Students making the most of their final days of term Credit: ITV News

Year 10, who have been back in school for the last few weeks, say they feel for their friends in year 11 who have missed out on all the fun of finishing this stage of their school career.



Year six students at St Peter's Junior School in Tavistock have missed out their residential, end of school parties and seeing their friends.

They say they are glad to get back to the classroom, even if it is just to finish their time at the school.

Students at St Peter's Junior School in Tavistock were pleased to be back in the classroom Credit: ITV News


Read more: