SOUTH African children benefited from new computer equipment thanks to joint efforts from a Studley school and other Warwickshire teachers.

To top off their fundraising efforts, a group of teachers and training assistants from Studley visited a number of Cape Town township schools.

The trip, supported by the British Council, saw the schools furnished with equipment and technology to give youngsters the power to create their own work and work with computers in a way they had not been able to do before.

The schools had a limited amount of computer equipment before the visit but the extra equipment, including a printer and a laminator, allowed them to make posters to brighten up the empty walls.

Children were able to produce a book about themselves, which was written in English on one page and their native tongue on the opposite pages. A copy of each book will be kept in the school library.

And the stories of these youngsters are now being used in Warwickshire schools as the teachers bring their experiences back to the classroom.

Studley St Mary's Junior School teacher Judy Bowley said: "It was an incredible experience. Schools in Cape Town are slowly receiving more help and getting more resources, but we were able to bring more necessary equipment to these schools.

"The children wrote fantastic stories and we were able to donate the equipment to allow them to print them out and take them home."