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More than a million laptops have been sent to needy pupils during lockdown in £400m boost for Mail Force drive Total of 1,055,745 devices have been delivered to students who need them most Deliveries allow children to complete vital schoolwork at home during lockdown The Government programme has also allowed thousands of families to receive … Read more
More than a million laptops have been sent to needy pupils during lockdown in £400m boost for Mail Force drive Total of 1,055,745 devices have been delivered to students who need them most Deliveries allow children to complete vital schoolwork at home during lockdown The Government programme has also allowed thousands of families to receive … Read more
Ministers are ignoring the plight of pupils who have been left behind after months away from school during Covid-19 pandemic, says Children’s Commissioner Anne Longfield blamed remote officialdom for plight of millions of children She asked ministers: ‘Are you serious about ”building back better”?’ Ms Longfield also pointed to the ‘scandal’ of almost a fifth … Read more
‘Hero’ teacher, 48, who has hand-delivered over 10,000 lunches to vulnerable school pupils during lockdown reveals he now requires knee surgery after walking 750 miles since March Zane Powles, from Grimsby, spends his morning delivering lunches to students The students are currently self-isolating with families at home amid pandemic He faced toughest delivery yet and … Read more
To the delight of one secondary school’s pupils – especially some excitable triplets – the Mail Force van has made its latest delivery of laptops. Mail Force has now raised a whopping £10.6millon for the Computers for Kids campaign in just three weeks, to help lockdown pupils struggling to follow online classes. The charity has … Read more
Parents have been left fuming at headteachers who told their children to play in the snow instead of taking online lessons on Zoom. As large parts of the UK were hit with snow from Storm Darcy, some headteachers took it upon themselves to call a ‘snow day’ for home school students, scrapping online lessons and … Read more
Nicola Sturgeon could allow Scottish students to return to school weeks before those in England after her top medical adviser said it was safe for them to go back. Professor Jason Leitch claimed ‘progress’ is being made against the coronavirus and he has recommended to the SNP Government that younger children can return. At the last … Read more
In a boost for British children, one of the country’s most successful online retailers pledged a whopping £500,000 to Mail Force yesterday. The Hut Group’s donation sends our campaign to help pupils in lockdown get online soaring to £5.6million in just a week. Laptops are already being handed out to schoolchildren who desperately need them to … Read more
Headmaster, 41, of £18,000-a-year London private school will come out as gay to his pupils and staff in online assembly tomorrow and says ‘my only regret it not doing it earlier’ Headteacher Nicholas Hewlett plans to tell students and staff at St Dunstan’s College in Catford that he is gay during an online assembly tomorrow … Read more
Pupils should not be forced to take ‘mini-exams’ this summer and teachers should award grades based on a combination of coursework, mock exams and teacher assessments, a headteachers’ union has said. It argued that this would help teachers with their grading judgements after this summer’s GCSE and A-level exams were cancelled, and to avoid a repeat … Read more