Parents and teachers have reacted with horror at photos of a school playground in France. The heartbreaking photograph was taken at a nursery school and shows children sitting alone in their own playground ‘isolation sections’.
It was taken in the northern town of Tourcoing, on the Belgium border, and shows a group of boys and girls being kept away from each other using squares marked out in chalk.
The youngsters, aged three and four, returned to class following almost two months of lockdown as the French government eased restrictions.
And it comes as the UK government announced plans to get some year groups back in schools in England, with a phased return from June 1 and a possible return for all primary school children before the summer,