Children aged three to five in the pre-school at Maple Tree Lower School at Sandy, Bedfordshire, can now enjoy playing with 64 snaking lights on the wall and interact with pupils aged five to nine in the adjoining playground through portholes in a fence.
A team from the Science Museum, which developed the project, established through a series of tests that lights were most popular with the children and could be harnessed to complement their group and individual interest in working out problems, counting and basic maths.
Most of the lights are on the pre-school side on two hexagonal platforms.
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