Thieves take £20,000 haul of Telford school Macs and 15 iPods
Thieves have stolen state-of-the-art computer equipment worth about £20,000 during a raid at Telford’s newest primary school, police said today.
They broke into Woodlands Primary School in Madeley, sometime between 6.30pm on Monday and 6am yesterday.
The thieves managed to get into one of the classrooms and they made off with 16 white Apple Mac books, 15 Apple iPod touch units and 15 Apple iPod docking stations.
A spokesperson on behalf of the school, in Ironbridge Road, said: “The school is terribly disappointed by this crime. We had invested in fantastic new products to go with our lovely new school building.
“The school wanted to provide the children with the experience of high quality ICT equipment. Unfortunately the theft has deprived the children of that.”
“The budget for the products came out of our ICT budget and had only been in use since January when we moved into our new school. We are looking at how they can be replaced, whether we can claim on insurance is just one option. However it is safe to say the solution will not be a quick one.”
Woodlands Primary School opened as part of the new Abraham Darby development. A Telford Police spokeswoman said: “The break-in was discovered by a caretaker starting work on Tuesday morning.
Anyone with information on the break-in should contact Telford Police on 101.
Comments for: "Thieves take £20,000 haul of Telford school Macs and 15 iPods "
Rob, Telford
I think you'll find that the school in your picture was demolished several months ago!
Todd Nash
That'll teach me to use archive pictures! Thanks Rob (and everyone else!)
Sarah Collins
why publish a photo of the old building?
The Original Jake
I'm quite gobsmacked that a primary school felt the need to blow £20k of its ICT budget on a handful of Apple products. In our budget-conscious workplace, £20k would buy 50 laptops.
Kelly
What are these idiots doing now buying all this Apple gear. The council keeps saying its got no money.
Mac
What about notepads and cheap ballpoints as an alternative? MUCH CHEAPER AND VERY EFFECTIVE.
Jo
Might be a good idea to show the actual school, rather than the one it replaced, which has been knocked down!
Shropsman
Errmmm ..... what is a primary school doing buying loads of ultra-expensive Apple kit in the first place ????
I could understand if this was a senior school and the computers were taken from a design or music department where Mac's are clearly accepted to be the procesing system of choice, but for little kids and general use you could have brought almost twice as much Windows based kit for that sort of money - probably a lot more if the school has been brave enough to venture into the Linux world ......
And iPods ????? why ????
Steven
Welcome to Telford.
AC
Absolutely horrible that someone would break into a school but got to agree with the comments above... why does a primary school need this sort of trendy, flashy kit? Obviously, whoever is in charge of IT there has a thing for Apple and we all know what Apple fans are like...
Kev
All this new flashy Apple equipment, and in a new state of the art school - with apparently no state of the art security system???
School Bod
The old school had a lot of break-ins so they put a 7 foot high security fence right the way around it. So at the new school they thought that a 4 foot one would be fine!!!!!!!!!
How the school spends it's money isn't the issue here. It's the break in and theft of equipment meant for children. If the i.c.t budget covers apple gear that's what you buy, it just makes sense and as a new school the council's bound to give them a leg up with a bit of a cash boost! Besides maybe apple cut them a deal since they want kids switched on to them rather than microsoft. People are way too quick to comment and judge.