MEADOWPARK Primary School took a different approach to learning as their pupils spent the afternoon building a city out of Lego.

Headteacher Rajvinder Kular claims her pupils were far more engaged as they took on maths, design and electronics whilst constructing.

The school, which is situated in Cricklade has 60 children ranging from four-year-olds up to 11 year-olds and while the activity may seem fun, Rajvinder insists they are still learning.

She said: “We believe that learning should be fun so we often arrange trips outside of school to things like Avebury and things like that.

“Then we invited specialists into the school with the children on site and this was one of those occasions.

“They use a lot of skills there, maths, science, design and linguistic skills, they all tried to co-operate with each other.

“The children don’t realise that they are learning, they just think they are playing, even the younger ones who are aged five some of them were able to make some of the electrical things work.”

During the session the children started out by making smaller scale, before eventually piecing everything together to make a Lego city.

“The children were very engaged from all across the school, they first of all planned what they were going to make,” she added.

“They started off by making town houses and then they branched out to a whole city with swimming pools and restaurants, they really enjoyed it.

“After that they had an area where they would work on their things before they put them all together.

“There was a lot of maths in there obviously but it was an enjoyable and fun thing for them to do. They had electronics in there as well, so there was a windmill and a light house that lit up

“It’s just a fun way of learning.”