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Friday, March 5, 2021
Blackmore Vale
Fortnightly
FREE FANTAST-TECH: Gracie-Mae Barnett from Sherborne, 10, who attends St Andrew’s in Yetminster, is delighted at the success of a campaign to provide laptops for kids in the SAST group of schools (laptop model’s own)
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Picture: Gemma Leanne’s Photography gemmaleannes photography@ gmail.com
Laptop campaign reaches nearly £43k in four weeks “Our town has really put its children at its heart,” said Ian Bartle, headteacher of Sherborne Primary School after an ambitious crusade to gift a laptop to every child
who needs one raised a staggering £42,881. Up to a million children UK schoolchildren are struggling with lessons at home because they are unable to access the
technology needed and children in North Dorset are not immune. The Rotary Club of Sherborne Castles launched a gofundme campaign to
gift a laptop to every child in the Sherborne area who needed one to learn at home during lockdown and beyond. n Continued on back page
