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Saffron Walden s Team Laptop
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Team Laptop, set up to help children with their education by providing donated laptops, tablets, printers and headphones, is still going strong.
And they are appealing for the public to dig into cupboards and donate unused items that could help others.
Jacqui Portway said: Laptops and donations still coming in. We have supplied about 50 families with equipment. We have gone out as far as Great Dunmow, Thaxted, the villages, and Trumpington.
Based in Saffron Walden, Team Laptop has a dedicated Facebook page and a laptop song written by Walden musician Paul Wood.
As face coverings become fixtures in secondary schools, parents, pupils and teachers share their concerns
24 February 2021 • 5:00am
Secondary schoolchildren in England have been told they must wear face masks in the classroom
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Last summer, the idea of schoolchildren having to wear face masks in their classrooms still seemed fairly far-fetched. “That’s clearly nonsensical,” said Boris Johnson on Aug 26, a week before the start of the autumn term, when asked about the issue. “You can’t teach with face coverings and you can’t expect people to learn with face coverings.”
Now, the ridiculous has become reality. In October, the Scottish government told schools in hotspot areas to consider masks in the classroom. Then, in January, the Northern Irish government followed suit. And on Monday, in the Government’s new roadmap out of lockdown, secondary schools in England were told that pupils should wear face coverings “for a limited period” from M