A SEVEN-year-old boy has come up with an idea to give his teachers a Rainbow Award for caring for key worker children during the coronavirus pandemic.

Children across the nation are staying at home on lockdown.

However children of key workers are attending school and being cared for by school staff, to enable their parents to carry on with their important work.

Reuben Walker from Haresfinch has been missing his schoolfriends and teachers at St Peter and St Paul Primary school, so decided to come up with an idea to launch a rainbow award for them, even writing in to our paper suggesting the idea.

He also got his friends to 'back' his idea via Whatsapp and added them to the letter, which says:

"Dear Newspaper Editor, My name is Reuben Walker and I am seven years old. It would make me very, very happy if you could publish a little page about my school.

"I go to St Peter and St Paul's in Haresfinch and I am in Year 2.

"My headteacher is Ms Rigby and she is a very, very kind person and does lots of amazing things at our school and thinks of everybody.

"Ms Rigby rocks.

"But I would be happy if you could write about my teacher Ms Flaherty because Ms F is amazing.

"She loves everybody loves her just like Mary Poppins.

"Ms F is very brave because she is working in school looking after children whose mummy's and daddy's are nurses.

"So because of this I want to give Ms F a rainbow award because Ms F is simply the best teacher. There is no teacher like Ms F."

The letter is then signed by Reuben and he has signed for his other friends too.

His proud mum Alex Walker sent us a picture of the letter. She said: "Reuben has always been a kind and thoughtful boy, but when I realised what he has thought up with everything going on I just thought it was wonderful.

"He has been whatsapping his friends as he misses them and they all backed his idea, which is sweet, so he put their names on too.

"Teachers are doing such an important job caring for children to keep our NHS working, even a seven-year-old boy can see that.

"So hopefully they get some praise thanks to Reuben and his friends."