CHILDREN at a primary school have won £5,000 to buy learning equipment and resources after coming second in a national competition.
Pupils from Thorpe Hall School, in Hale End Road, Waltham Forest, were awarded the prize fund by RM Education, a company which supplies educational software, computers and services to schools.
Hundreds of primary schools across the country, entered the competition, which saw pupils asked to send in designs of what their ideal learning space would look like.
The Thorpe Hall pupils have decided to buy a mobile interactive whiteboard, which is connected to a computer and a projector.
The child can then control a computer by touching a pen or finger to the board and anything created can be saved.
Oz Orman, the creative coordinator at Thorpe Hall, said: “We saw this as an exciting cross curricular opportunity for our pupils to enhance their learning environment by thinking and behaving in an enterprising and creative fashion."
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