Children out of school, months of lost learning and widening gaps between students: it’s become fashionable to see Covid-19 as having been a disaster for education.

A year has passed since we started the quarantine. Twelve months ago we did not know how long our confinement would last, or how long we would have to do our daily activities from home.

It's been a year. Well, almost a year. In February 2020 I was getting ready for the many different celebrations and events that are common during this month in our busy school calendar, and the ones that were coming just a few weeks later.

Elise Ecoff, our group education director, spoke with CGTN - China Global Television Network to share some great Teaching Tips for learning success at home as teachers and parents around the world are working hard to make the best of a tough situation.

When we think about crucial subjects for children at school we tend to think about math, science and English. Performing arts are often overlooked, but they can be crucial for our child's development.

During the first months of 2020 in Mexico, as in the rest of the world, the circumstances in which education develops have changed. Since the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11th declared that COVID-19 passed from being an epidemic to a pandemic, the way of providing education changed overnight.