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 had a sensational boost with a video appeal fronted by David Beckham and 29 other famous British faces going viral – reaching some 123million social media users.
In Southampton, 12-year-old triplets Sandra, Daniel and Manuel Naduvila were beaming ear to ear as they received their hi-tech goodies earlier this week.
Now pupils of Manchester s Moston Fields Primary School have another reason to smile.
For they find themselves starring in a video alongside David Beckham, David Walliams, Helena Bonham-Carter, Stephen Fry and umpteen other celebrity supporters of the great Mail Force drive to get all Britain s children learning through lockdown.
Packed with many of our favourite stars of film, television, sport and the arts, the new film is raising both funds and awareness for the charity s Computers for Kids campaign. It hit social media channels yesterday and proved an instant hit.
David Beckham was among the celebrity supporters of the great Mail Force drive to get all Britain s children learning through lockdown
David Beckham, David Walliams, Sir Ian McKellen and Dame Joan Collins are among the 30 big names backing the Mail Force charity. They star in a unique fundraising video for the charity.
Britain s biggest teaching union has been accused of hijacking the coronavirus crisis to push for pay rises and long-term perks while the educations of millions of children are shipwrecked.
The National Education Union (NEU) is including pay increases in key demands and bosses have called for any reduction in class sizes to be long-term - not just for social distancing during the pandemic.
Union leaders congratulated their members for getting schools closed down, claiming it was their threats to not turn up to class which led to Prime Minister Boris Johnson shutting schools in England in January.
The NEU came under fire from furious Tory backbenchers after a gloating email from the union to its 500,000 members was leaked which told them You did it! as the third national lockdown was announced.