Primary seven pupils as well as sixth formers returned to classrooms across Northern Ireland on Monday, many for the first time in nearly six months.
Stacey Graham said it was “the right thing to do” as her 10-year-old son John went back to Forth River Primary School in north Belfast. “I think it is really important, especially for people from working class communities who are already disadvantaged, to get out there and get as much education as they can.”
“He has a tight wee group of four or five boys that have been together since pre-school, since lockdown they have seen each other outside. He’s looking forward to getting back and into some sort of semblance of a routine, it’s been a long six months without that. “Jayne has no immune system to fight coronavirus and falls into the highest at risk category, labelled as vulnerable,” he tweeted.