Mon, Jul 20, 2009
Kids In Bucknall, England, Soon Going To School "First
Class"
When the staff at the Kingsland, C.E. Primary
School in Bucknall, England went looking for an outdoor
learning space, they said they wanted "something different." They
talked about what they would like to see,
and someone suggested "an
airplane." Well, that's just what they got.
School admistrators found
a Short 360 that was about to be scrapped, and bought if
for just over $18,000 for conversion into an innovative
classroom for the school. It arrived recently on the back of a
flatbed truck, and a project is underway to convert the old
fuselage into a learning center.
Head teacher, David Lawrence, said on the project blog: "The
children have been involved in the design and project management of
the King's Wings and will regularly use the airplane to help them
learn," .
The school says the program is not only
about an outdoor classroom. "The children’s imagination
has been fired up by the idea and they are enthused and motivated
and we are sure that this will lead to improved attendance, give us
better and more opportunities for speaking and listening and will
raise attainment," Lawerence wrote on the blog. "The project has
certainly raised aspirations and has caught the wider
community’s interest. Our aim is to use the aeroplane as a
community learning resource too.”
We at ANN suppose it's probably way more useful than turning the
old airplane into soda cans. Thanks to Pablo Productions Ltd 2009
for permission to use the photographs.
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