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IT dreams come true

During the last three years Oliver Tomkins Junior School has been working hard to develop Information Technology facilities, setting up
a computer room equipped with Apple Macintosh computers. But they had a problem of giving whole classes the chance to develop IT
skills.
Now, thanks to the 'First Byte' said, 'these lap-tops will provide Natalie Hughes, 11, puts her thoughts into a Dreamwriter
project and generous help from easy access to word processing for Laptop computers are modern more laptops and encouraged chil-
Motorola, the school has been lots of our children, at school and technology that were created re- dren to use them, then maybe more
equipped with a Rol-A-Lab com- even at home. I'm delighted that cently. I, as a school child think children would want to write and
plete with 30 Dreamwriter word we've been able to achieve this that writing on laptops is more express their ideas, to learn and
processors. with the help of Motorola and First enjoyable than writing free hand. develop their creativity.
Headteacher Andrew Pagett Byte.' This wonderful piece of tech- Computers also check spellings,
nology will definitely encourage and when a child is working on
Sheila Parsons of the First Byte project, left, and Angela Bartlett from
Motorola present the Rol-A -Lab computers to Oliver Tomkins children, with children to write more and enjoy their own, this can be very useful.
writing. Oliver Tomkins Junior School
headteacher Andrew Pagett at the rear
From writing in a diary to work- are very grateful to Motorola for
ing out a sum, laptops have all this sponsoring the purchase of the
and more. If more schools bought laptop computers.

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