When you ask a classroom full of kids what they’re doing in the summer holidays, you are usually knocked back by a wave of excitement and anticipation. But for one group of year 3 primary school children in north London, that is not the case at all.
“I might be going to the park one day,” offers an eight-year-old boy flatly. “I would love to go swimming,” adds a bright-eyed girl with cornrow plaits. A few other pupils offer suggestions, all quite muted.
“OK, so where would you go if you could make a wish to go anywhere or do anything?” asks their head teacher. A boy’s hand shoots up first: “I would ride a bike outside.” “I’d like to try a trampoline,” says another