St David’s Primary School students now have iPads, thanks to an ACE Bermuda fund in memory of the late MP Madeline Joell.

All 14 of the school’s P2 pupils, along with their teacher, have the tablet computers for use in their wireless classroom. The iPads have more than 35 apps supporting the Cambridge core curriculum of maths, English and science.

“The iPads are a metaphor to let our students know how much we value them, and that we will not let them fail,” principal Gladstone Thompson said, following yesterday’s introduction of the computers.

“We will offer our students all of the tools that currently speak to innovation, and the calculus of our approach, we think, will ensure their success, in whatever way you want to measure it.”

The computers, purchased at the start of the school year with money from the Madeline Joell Nest Egg Fund, have “increased student engagement to an all-time high”, he said.

St David’s Primary is looking to increase iPad usage, Mr Thompson added. The devices are increasingly in use in classrooms worldwide.