Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)

Whizzkids link with Europe; It's all about high-tech learning at Birdsedge First School: Examiner education reporter HAZEL ETTIENNE goes into the classroom of a village school: SPTLIGHT ON OUR SCHOOLS.(Features)

Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England) | April 8, 2008 | Copyright

Byline: HAZEL ETTIENNE

WITHIN the stone walls of a small school in a picturesque village a technological revolution is taking place.

Computer whizzkids are the norm not the exception at Birdsedge First School, nine miles from Huddersfield.

It may have only 81 pupils, but this forward-thinking school is big on ICT and the worldwide web.

Robotic soccer players teach children about programming and scientific thinking.

And cameras linked to schools inHuddersfield, Cumbria and across Europe give pupils from this small community the…

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