Children from Earith School collected their new palmtop computers from the Tesco store in Huntingdon. John Major, who was prime Minister at the time, saw them using one.

This story was written by three children aged eleven years from a Cambridgeshire primary school

Mr Wall shut the door and we were off through the school gates. We were a bit worried about the traffic, but when we got through Earith we thought it would be OK. We went through Bluntisham and Colne to avoid chicken legs and concrete and two lorries stranded on the A14.

We parked the car eventually in the back entrance of Tesco. Staff showed us to the staff training room and they then gave us an enormous badge with Computers '97 for schools on it.  We had to wait for what felt like at least a year. All of sudden John Major arrives with lots of other people and we all get our photo taken with him. Your turn Emma.

Doughnuts
The staff then took us to the restaurant and we had a nice doughnut or two. I had two doughnuts they were lovely but very sticky and the jam came squirting out very quickly. Now we are waiting, because we are going on a tour of Tescos, and we are going to see the computer room and have a look at the computers. John Major has left. He came instead of Brian Mawhinney, and I'm glad.

Clocking in
A nice lady showed us round and we saw a man making doughnuts and how you put the jam in, then she showed us the counters. She showed us the security unit (There were a lot of computers.) If the security broke Tesco would shut down because all the organising the computers do would stop ordering new things for the shelves. The lady was showing us  how the delivery section works. The fridge is huge they have huge amounts of everything. The fresh fruit is kept in a slightly warmer room. The people who work at Tescos have to clock in and out for security reasons. There were air vents on the roof but we weren't allowed to see them.

Batteries
Off we went back to the refreshments room and found out that Tesco's earned a million pounds a week. Everyone is trained in a special room, and they have special handbooks as well. We have just bought some batteries for the other mini computers to work, but we looked at the wrong shelf for the price, so when the lady at the checkout told Mr Wall the price, he thought it was a different price to what it said on the shelf.  They sent someone to check the price on the shelf, and she told us we had looked at the wrong shelf. 

Engines
  Now we are on the way back to school, it's 11:33 and we are on the Needingworth bypass.  Michael, Richard and Mr. Wall have been talking about engines and I haven't got a clue what they have been going on about, so I have just been writing on this little computer, but I know what they are talking about now, they are talking about how to load this up on to the big computer. Oh no they're back to engines again. Never mind, over to you Richard.

Mr. Wall opened the school gates and unfortunately we were back!!!!!!

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