Education advisors warn that the nation risks serious anxiety and mental health problems among young people if the return to schooling is not handled right.
The University of Auckland this week launched a website to help teachers help children deal with what they have been through during the lockdown.
An education professor from the university, Peter O'Connor, told RNZ education correspondent John Gerritsen some children will be worried about their parents' jobs and others will be worried by the scale of the pandemic.
