Parents have built an outdoor classroom at a school in Co Wicklow as a response to Covid-19. The 'Learning Lodge' at St Patrick's National School in Curtlestown, near Enniskerry, includes socially distanced tables, benches and a blackboard.
It enjoys spectacular views of the surrounding countryside, including the Sugar Loaf mountain. "A lot of the classroom area was scrubland.
All of the trees were overhanging and you couldn't see in there. So during August we cleaned all that up and levelled the ground.
Then we arranged to get the benches and the blackboard," explained Mark Burton, one of the parents involved in the project. "There is a great sense of local community up in Curtlestown.