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Council’s urgent appeal to businesses and individuals: ‘Borough children need technology’

Bedford Borough Council has joined other organisations to call for donations of tech devices to help school children get online with home learning. With schools closed to the majority of students, most children and young...

Queens Park Academy ‘overwhelmed by kindness and generosity of Bedford’

Following a plea for help from the community to donate unwanted laptops to their school, Queens Park Academy has been overwhelmed with the response. On Friday, the Bedford Independent reported that many schools...

School launches urgent appeal for 280 laptops for its most vulnerable pupils

Queens Park Academy (QPA) has launched an impassioned appeal to the wider community, asking for donations of laptops and tablets to help the children during lockdown...

Bedford’s chief education officer: “Remote learning has to happen for every pupil in our schools”

As Bedford’s schools head once more into lockdown mode education chiefs want to make sure that all pupils have access to the internet. With Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s announcement just minutes away borough councillors met yesterday...

Biddenham School ahead of the game with laptops for every student

One school in Bedford was way ahead of the game with remote learning, even before the coronavirus pandemic struck.Seven years ago, Biddenham...

Harpur Trust asks public for donations of laptops to support local school children

Bedford charity, The Harpur Trust, has today made a public appeal for donations of spare laptops to support the Borough's pupils with their remote...

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