Ali's work and her reaction

This year, the book got off to a good start with many people interested in helping complete the book. We were delegated into different groups and got to work.
My group had to come up with different people to write to and to e-mail. The list of names which we came up with were given out to people to get contact details, and we all brought them in at the next meeting.
We were also given the task of interviewing our grandparents about their primary school experiences.
At the moment we are all contacting different people with a personal, hand-written letter. Myself and Hannah are also being put in touch with a school in London, to receive their input for the book.

Hearing my Granny talk about her primary school experiences was really nice. It was great to hear about the things they did at school, and how different it is to what my primary school was like. As I was talking to her about it, she was remembering different details which was nice to see as well.

Alison Bell

Hannah's work and her reaction

So far our book is coming along nicely, everyone is extremely busy but excited about the outcome. At the moment we are trying to get the contents of the book intact and the people we want to be part of this wonderful opportunity finalized. The main objective of this book is to highlight the importance of primary education. It also emphasises the relevance of the second Millennium Goal.
I think the fact that a group of young secondary students are the lead creators of the book, gives it an interesting edge and expands the aspiration of the book to a variety of age groups. I am really enjoying the process and very happy to be a part of it.

Hannah Walsh.

Paula's work and her reaction

I really wanted to become involved in this project as soon as I heard about it as there is over seventy million children worldwide that do not have access to an education. A primary education is so important as it helps a child to reach their full potential and gives them so many more oppurtunities in life. With so many children deprived of an education this book will help raise awareness on the goal "primary education for all" and will help in this goal being achieved worldwide by 2015.
We are now working on getting submissions of peoples thoughts,reflections, memories on the theme of Primary Education in order to create a thought provoking book. I am really enjoying working on this book and it has made me realise the true importance of primary education which many of us take for granted. I interviewed my mother on her experience and memories of primary school, to contribute to the book. It was intresting to compare the differences between her memories and mine and to learn more about my mothers school life. I am really enjoying working on this book and am finding it a very wothwhile and intresting experience :)

Paula Cunnifffe

Louise's work and her reaction

Hi there,
Work for the Towards 2015 book for Universal Primary Education is
truly underway.
For the book, we are each going to interview our grandparents about
their primary school days.
I'm really looking forward to talking to my granny about her school
life in rural Ireland and I can't wait to hear some stories about her
primary school education. It will also be excitig to hear the other
girls interviews aswell.
At todays meeting, we all were assigned famous people to contact,
asking for them to contribute stories from their childhood education
or to speak about the importance of primary school education for all.
The entire experience with the preparation for the book has been
really enjoyable and I know its only going to get better.

Louise Geagan Murray