Winchelsea School's new Smartpod

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Ruskington's Winchelsea School has unveiled its new Smart pod for interactive, immersive learning for pupils, complete with sounds, smells and vibrations!

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00:00 The children learn about dinosaurs and there's absolutely no way we can take them back in time to dinosaurs.

00:07 But they can experience it by coming in here and getting an experience with the dinosaurs.

00:14 You can feel the ground shaking as they come through.

00:21 Some pterodactyls flying across in a minute.

00:25 We can go under the water.

00:41 Oops, sorry, one more.

00:43 We can go to space. We can go to water.

00:46 We can go to space.

00:48 We've got a dinosaur under there with us.

00:53 We can also explore.

00:57 And then we have our interactive floor.

00:59 So if you walk across that, somebody on a bicycle.

01:01 Somebody wants to go and have a bit of a walk.

01:03 So for our children with sensory needs,

01:11 it's very useful for them to be able to feel like they are moving water.

01:16 This is what we've leaved. They can pick the leaves up.

01:19 As well as play games and things, I know we can program it to do quizzes.

01:22 Play a game of football on it.

01:24 Play a musical instrument on it to drum a kit.

01:27 There's the other keyboard.

01:30 But we can go into all manner of different environments and different experiences.

01:40 I'm going to spar.

01:42 London 1930s, everybody's happy.

01:51 They're just recovering from their last war.

01:54 They're getting back to their lives.

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02:47 Can you smell it?

02:49 Can you smell the gunpowder coming through?

02:51 [no audio]

02:54 Can you feel it?

03:07 Can you feel it?

03:09 [laughter]

03:11 Can you feel it?

03:16 [laughter]

03:18 [no audio]

03:21 There's some talk about silence. It's stopped.

03:41 Is it safe to go out?

03:43 And there's the old clear.

03:46 And out we go.

03:48 [no audio]

03:51 So that's...

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04:11 So the child, if you were that child, what would you be feeling?

04:18 What would your emotions be to see that you came out to the shelter?

04:22 And that's it.

04:27 [applause]

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