Teachers set up mobile scheme to hand out school supplies to home learning pupils

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Teachers backed the Mirror’s “Help a Child to Learn Campaign” as they handed exercise books and pens to parents and pupils from the back of a minibus.

Our team watched as families braved the cold and rain to collect much-needed supplies. Caring school staff set up the mobile scheme after realising youngsters were going short of essentials during the lockdown.

Patrick Ottley-O’Connor, head of Westhoughton High School said: “We found that the students were writing on any bits of paper they could find because they were running out of resources at home. “So we set it up a bit like an ice cream van, stopping off at places at certain times so people know where it is, delivering paper, calculators, pens, that sort of stuff. “It went really well on