The battle to get enough face masks made to provide vital protection to frontline workers is continuous.

Now a team at The Windsor Boys School has joined the growing number of people making their contribution - under the watchful eye of the school's head of technology Phil Hall.

A JustGiving appeal launched at the school saw about £7,000 raised in a few days, which will enable the school to boost its existing number of 3-D printers

With pupils locked down at home Phil has been working with parent volunteers using the printers already available to produce as many as 100 masks a day. He hopes to eventually produce 1,000.

They are being distributed to surgeries, care homes and vets in the area.

 

 

 

 

 

Windsor and Eton Rotary Club is donating a 3-D printer. Chairman of the club's youth committee Royal Borough councillor Jon Davey said: "This will have long term benefits for pupils as well as short term benefit of producing masks for the NHS."

Phil Hall, a past winner of the Institute of Engineers' 'outstanding design and technology teacher' award, also sees the 3-D printers as playing a vital role in education at the school once their immediate use in the COVID- 19 crisis has gone.

He said: "When all of this is over the 3-D printers will be used to help boys in design and technology for prototyping their projects, helping them get an idea of future technology. We are pushing this hard. We are one of the leading schools in the country for 3-D printing and this will take us up to the next level."