In total, 42 children contributed to the project, penning personal tales of their time during the Covid pandemic
A group of pupils from a West Belfast school officially became authors on Friday after a book they had worked on was released.
Starbucks provided refreshments for all of those who came along and gifted €500 worth of books to the school's library. After the readings, the children were also surprised with a visit from Santa who handed out Christmas presents. One common theme from each of the accounts is how relieved the children were when school reopened, something which came as no surprise to principal, Sean McNamee, who described the project as "a silver lining to what has been a dark cloud for the last two years".
"We are grateful to Emer at Emu Ink for guiding our pupils through this process and showing them their stories deserve to be told; and to the West Belfast Partnership and the Department of Education for funding it." She said: "West Belfast has a community infrastructure like no other and our goal at the partnership is to develop and foster relationships which can improve literacy and numeracy for school children. When I met Emer from EMU Publishing I knew that we could do something wonderful, which focused on literacy, but also captured the history of the Covid-19 pandemic through the eyes of our children.
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