"That's me!", "there’s Tommy!" There was laughter and squeals of delight as fourth class pupils at St Joseph's National School in Dublin’s Coolock looked back on footage taken at their school five years ago when the school closures were announced.
These pupils were in junior infants then and on 12 March 2020 we filmed as they formed a line and received little parcels of learning materials from their teacher Ciara Sotscheck as they left the classroom, no one with any idea as to when they might return.
Now in fourth class their memory of that time seems extraordinarily vivid. 'Lonely for kids' We need your consent to load this comcast-player contentWe use comcast-player to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity.
Please review their details and accept them to load the content.Manage Preferences "I remember just all of us going home and then, like, in the few following days we got Play-Doh and lunches from the school and we’d be on Zoom calls.