School receives laptop donations
A school in Montgomery has received a donation of 10 laptops to support home learning.
Montgomery School has received a donation of 10 HP laptops to support home learning from parent Daryl Davies and his company Riello UPS Ltd. The laptops were dropped off at school, factory reset, sanitised and PAT tested.
The school council will be sending a thank you card to Mr Davies and many of the laptops have already been allocated to families.
The school said it continues to improve access to home learning and ICT resourcing. Last week the school received six teacher laptops from Welsh Government funding.
As a result, older teacher laptops have been allocated to teaching assistants to ensure that they also have their own school device to support online learning and provide regular feedback to move learning on.
Headteacher Anna Griggs said: “We are anticipating a delivery of a further eight laptops for students shortly. The target for Welsh Government is a minimum of one device between two pupils.
“However, as a result of working with fundraising partners like the Friends of Montgomery School and Montgomery Cricket Club, and also the support of community minded businesses like Invertek and Riello UPS Ltd, Montgomery School is ahead of that target.”
Moving forward, the school is developing a sustainable long term plan to ensure that they maintain high levels of ICT resourcing that will support the school community during Covid and also enable independent learning for the Curriculum for Wales.
A recent Governing Body parental survey identified that there were still some families struggling with older devices or connectivity.
The school continues to loan laptops to families and is also wanting to hear from families as soon as possible if they think a mi-fi device might boost and ensure consistent internet connectivity.
The school also applied for wi-fi vouchers from BT to reduce the financial impact of online learning from home.
