20.3.2020 – A day to remember

Looking around the children’s hospital ward the young nurse waited until the whining hum of the doodle bug stopped, quickly she lay herself over the child who had the greatest chance of life when it inevitably exploded close by a few seconds later. As I viewed the shocking scenes from Brescia in Northern Italy on the BBC last night I recalled this little vignette which my mother shared with me of her time at Great Ormond Street hospital during World War 2. Very soon, if not already here in London, our hospital staff will face the greatest challenge for our country since that period in our history. Many of us, who had parents who lived through the war are looking back to those times and marvelling at how they or indeed our grandparents coped. This hidden deadly virus has swiftly taken over the normal bustling life to be found here in the heart of London’s Docklands. Canary Wharf College is a small MAT consisting of two primary schools and a growing secondary school. Each day t