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Lessons in Lego at Leeds school
LEGO SKILLS: David Hutchinson, 14, in the new centre at Crawshaw School.
Things are clicking into place for staff and students in an educational initiative.
Pupils at Crawshaw School, Pudsey, are now learning lessons in a wide range of scientific subjects following the opening of their new Lego Education Centre.
The purpose-built classroom facility, the first of its kind in the North of England, contains a large range of hi-tech Lego equipment designed to enhance the learning experience of the 1,200 students at the secondary school.
Pupils are able to learn more about all kinds of key scientific principles by building scale models of everything from cars and robotic toys to bridges, wind turbines and other sustainable models.
The new centre also has a bank of state-of-the-art laptops to benefit students with customised Lego software.
Up to 30 pupils at a time are able to benefit from the new facility.
Crawshaw School headteacher Joanna Ruse said: “This new centre is an innovative and really exciting learning opportunity for our students and they really are responding to it with great enthusiasm.
“We are now looking forward to extending its impact in the area so that many more school students can benefit and learn.”
Crawshaw School has already been working with younger children at nearby Greenside Primary and now has plans to offer the facility to students of all ages in Pudsey and the surrounding area.
Funding for the project, which follows a £9million investment to refurbish the school under the previous government’s Building Schools for the Future, was provided by Leeds City Council’s Innovations Fund with support from Lego Education, which has a number of similar centres across the UK.
The projects on offer under the initiative all tie in with the National Curriculum and are specially designed to show young students how to make their Lego models interact with the environment using a variety of different sensors, as well as demonstrating key scientific and engineering principles.
Students in a range of areas, including technology, science, ICT and geography, are taking part in the scheme.
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