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The words of ‘Lockdown, lockdown, tell me when?’, by year-four children at Sompting Abbotts Prep School, in Church Lane, Sompting, tell of ‘feeling stranded’, missing friends and hugs, going ‘cross-eyed’ over Zoom and how words like ‘ventilators and flattening curves’ makes them scared.

They also talk of how they dream of playing football, flying abroad and making sandcastles. Pupils worked on the poem in virtual English lessons with teacher David Buckingham, and their parents recorded them saying their lines.

Headmaster Stuart Douch said: “It’s a brilliant poem and they’re saying what children everywhere must be feeling. This winter lockdown has been doubly hard for children cooped up with the cold and the dark evenings. We’ve all been applauding our wonderful NHS and keyworkers. Maybe we should be clapping our children, too. I think they’ve been superheroes, coping with confinement, isolation and such a huge change in their normal lives and routines.”