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今年春天，儿童村学校有幸获得了来自加拿大百思买的一项总值为9,982.00加元的赠款。百思买每年通过他们的学校技术赠款计划提供高达10,000加元的赠款。今年，儿童村从全加拿大的740个申请者中被选为13个获奖赠款的学校之一。

儿童村学校是卡尔加里教育委员会内的一个独特环境；我们的学生群体非常多样化，都曾经历过社交、情感或行为上的挑战，这些挑战妨碍了他们在社区学校的学习。我们的一些学生在使用辅助技术后，学习的质量，尤其是写作质量得到了显著提高。借助我们获得的百思买赠款，我们将为学校购买一些笔记本电脑。我们还将为学生购买iPod Shuffle，在巴士上使用。儿童村的学生从城市的各个地方来到学校，通勤往往会影响整个一天的状态。在他们通勤时倾听音乐或故事是帮助学生保持冷静、快乐和愿意学习的一种方式。

克服障碍是我们在儿童村所做的一切工作的核心。我们获得的百思买赠款是为我们的学生创造学习渠道的又一种方式。

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This spring, Children’s Village School was the fortunate recipient of a grant for $9,982.00, awarded by Best Buy Canada. Each year, Best Buy offers grants of up to $10,000 through their School Technology Grant Program. This year, Children’s Village was selected from 740 applicants across Canada as one of 13 grant award winners. '

Children’s Village School is a unique setting within the Calgary Board of Education; our students are a diverse group of individuals who all have experienced social, emotional or behavioural challenges that have created obstacles to learning in their community schools. A number of our students experience dramatic improvements in the quality of their learning, and particularly the quality of their writing, when they have access to assistive technology. With our Best Buy grant, we will be purchasing a number of laptops for our school. We will also be purchasing iPod shuffles for our students to use on the bus. Children’s Village students travel from across the city to attend our school; often, the commute sets the tone for the whole day. Listening to music or stories, as they travel, is one way to help students arrive at school calm, happy and ready to learn.

Overcoming obstacles is at the core of everything we do at the Village. Our Best Buy grant is one more way we are creating access to learning for our students.