Our thoughts are with her family and friends at this time
The five-year-old girl from West Belfast who died from an illness linked to the bacterial infection Strep A has been named locally as Stella-Lily McCorkindale.
On Tuesday, the school spoke of its "tragic loss" and paid tribute to the "very bright and talented little girl". "Stella-Lily was a very bright and talented little girl and very popular with both staff and children and will be greatly missed by everyone at school. "Stella-Lilly was part of our first junior girls team to come from our Skill School. We would like to extend our deepest sympathy to the McCorkindale family at this time."
"We would like to try and help this family by raising some money to help towards any costs and bills they have. Having to plan their child's funeral just before Christmas is horrendous. "Every winter we will see quite a level of sickness at various stages, and over the last couple of weeks we have had that as usual but we have noticed last week the numbers were probably higher than normal," he told the BBC.
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