On Wednesday, Boris Johnson expressed hope that it will be safe to reopen schools in England from 8 March at the earliest. But it’s not that straightforward.

The full return of face-to-face learning is heavily dependent on the success of the vaccine rollout and a decline in COVID-19 cases.

Teachers, parents and pupils have had to re-adjust to remote learning during this lockdown but could online lessons have a permanent place in the education structure in future?

On this edition of the Sky News Daily podcast, teacher Mathury Jeganathan shares her experience of swapping the traditional school building for a virtual classroom.

Host Jonathan Samuels is also joined by founder of My Online Schooling, Tom Crombie and Sky’s Laura Bundock as we examine the lessons learned.

Daily podcast team:
Podcast producer - Annie Joyce
Podcast producer - Nicola Eyers
Podcast apprentice – Lauren Pinkney
Interviews producer - Tatiana Alderson
Archive - Simon Windsor
Archive - Rob Fellowes
Music - Steven Wheeler