Shropshire school introduces DS to the classroom

A primary school in Shropshire is using DS consoles in the classroom in an innovation to make schoolwork more fun for pupils.

Clunbury Primary School's head teacher Andrew Davies has told the BBC that it is an "exciting and alternative way" of approaching education. The pupils meanwhile says they make work easier and more fun. The consoles are linked up, so teachers can send and receive work and access each pupil separately.

Presumably this work is done using more educational-based games, as opposed to Zelda.

Don't get too excited if you're currently at school though, because you won't necessarily be bagging yourself a DS to do your work on any time soon. Clunbury school appears a bit more technology focused than most, having been voted the top Information and Communications Technology school in England by government agency Becta.

The school also uses MP3 recorders, blogs and podcasts both as teaching tools and as ways to communicate with parents and other schools.

We like to say now, if we were forced to go back to school then we want it to be at this school. Playing Brain Training games certainly sounds a lot more fun than reading history textbooks.