Children at a school in Kettering have been able to meet up with each other for the first time since March with a special sing-a-long assembly.
Pupils at Hawthorn Community Primary School gathered in their year group bubbles on the school playground to share Christmas songs and carols.
It has been the first time the pupils have all been together since the start of term - with reception pupils meeting the rest of the school for the first time - and the first songs sung since March.
Catherine Billingham, deputy headteacher, said: "Hawthorn is a singing school. We wanted to do something to bring our community back together again. It has been a very long, hard term for the children and staff and our sense of school community is very important to us.
"Usually the older children act as buddies to the younger children to help them to settle into school and develop their reading and maths skills as well as developing their social skills and sense of belonging.
"Due to the Covid restrictions we have been unable to do that this year due to protecting their bubbles. This was the first time the older children had met the younger ones which is why is was so emotional."
