It has been said many times, but 2020 is a year we won’t forget, no matter how much we want to. The pandemic has caused stress, anxiety, confusion and uncertainty for adults and children alike.

Children have been caught up in a constantly changing schedule in which one of the main constants in their lives – going to school – has not featured. They have had to adapt to a completely new schooling experience.

Educational establishments worldwide have had to adapt just as quickly as students, turning to websites and apps that had only really been utilised by large global business prior to March 2020. It was a bumpy road initially, but it is safe to say that most schools now have a sleek homeschooling set-up in place.

At HKILA, we noticed that children and families quickly fell into a routine of Zoom sessions and working online. Indeed, for many students, the online environment has proved beneficial – making them more productive and engaged than they had been in a classroom. For this reason, we decided to develop HOME@HKILA, a new programme that combines a thematic curriculum written by Dimensions Curriculum (UK) with adapted plans for English and Maths that can be delivered at home.