A burglar has targeted a primary school in Gainsborough, stealing brand new Samsung Galaxy tablets intended to teach children in nursery.
A window was broken in the raid at Hillcrest Academy 11.43pm on Saturday, March 23.
But staff at the academy for children aged 3-7 years old decided to respond to the theft with humour rather than anger.
They posted a video two of their teachers, fully in character as ‘Jungle Master’ and ‘Kiosk Keith’, inspired by the hit show I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! - inspecting the damage.
In the video posted on their Twitter, ‘Jungle Master’ said: “They’ve stolen my tablets! The tablets I was learning my phonics on.
“I was going to be phonics queen and now look at me! But remember if there’s any information you’ve got, you need to let us know – because if there’s something strange in your neighbourhood who are you going to call?
“Jungle Master and Keith.”
The two characters have been created by staff, who have produced a series of comedic videos on Twitter, with Jungle Master earning himself more than 100 followers in the process.
A spokesperson for the school said: “We are trying to make sense of it all with humour.
“The criminal targeted our youngest pupils, our nursery, and this was so unfair as he left a trail of destruction as well as taking four brand new galaxy Samsung tablets.
“It has been terrible.”
This person was captured by CCTV at the time of the burglary trespassing on school grounds.
If you think you may know who this person is, you are urged to call Lincolnshire Police on 101 quoting incident number 530 of March 23.
A spokesperson for the force said: We were called to a school premises on Heapham Road, Gainsborough, following a report of a burglary.
“It appears that a selection of tablets were taken.
“Enquiries are ongoing.”