When junior school pupils were asked to dress up as their own favourite superheroes on Red Nose Day, there were some heartwarming surprises.
Year 2 pupil Dylan Brown arrived at school dressed as Ugur Sahin, the scientist who founded BioNtech which developed the groundbreaking Pfizer vaccine – all in honour of the fact that his great grandfather James Brown has become the oldest man in Britain to survive Covid-19.
Dylan, whose middle name is James after his great grandad, has been acutely aware of the dangers of the disease and on being asked by teachers to dress up as his hero, told mum Nicola straight away that he wanted to dress as “the person who has helped to save everyone” by coming up with a vaccine.
Said Nicola: “Dylan’s great grandfather James, who is 103, was very ill with Covid in his care home in Devon and we were told he would not survive. But quite miraculously, he did, which of course was cause for great joy in the household. But even before this, Dylan has always paid a great deal of attention to what he has heard on TV. Last year he was out every Thursday banging the pots to applaud the NHS and drawing rainbows to display in the windows.
“So when LOGS told the children that they were invited to dress up as their heroes, Dylan immediately started talking about all the doctors and nurses and scientists who have made life better for us all. We soon arrived at Ugur Sahin as an idea and it went from there.”
James Brown, a Spitfire engineer in World War 2, came hours from death after contracting the disease in February and when he pulled through he became the oldest male patient to shake off the disease.
It seems, with 12 months of Covid behind us, the disease has left its mark on the young just as much as the rest of us. Year 5’s Josh Engelhart responded to the superhero call by arriving dressed as Captain Tom Moore, the indefatigable centenarian who raised £33m for NHS charities by walking laps of his garden. He borrowed his great granny’s Zimmer frame for the day.
And there were plenty of emergency services characters too – with doctors, nurses and the police all well represented.
Lewes Old Grammar Junior School headmistress Carrie Whyte said: “The pandemic has had a huge effect on young children and it comes as no surprise to me that they have really thought hard about who their heroes are this year. Adults sometimes forget that children are listening and absorbing all that goes on around them and we have seen from our children today that they, just like their mums,dads and carers, are incredibly grateful to the people that have made a positive difference to our lives in the past 12 months.”
The children raised a healthy £446 for Red Nose Day too!
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