Summer classes a welcome distraction from rain

“When the rain keeps coming down, it’s so boring.”

It’s the complaint that thousands of parents must be tired of hearing. After a summer like the one we’ve just had, even the kids are glad to be back at school.

But for the 36 girls who were in classrooms at Scoil Aiséirí Chríost in Farranree, Cork, over the past week, it was more about fun and games than the labours of learning at a summer camp with a difference.