Installation in Bleasdale Pool, Bleasdale House Special Needs School in Lancashire.
A sophisticated Multi-Sensory sound and lighting studio is helping to educate children with profound learning difficulties at Bleasdale House Special Needs School in Lancashire
Financed primarily by public donations and fund-raising events , the pool has been refurbished with SpaceKraft's Sensory Show Magic system that produces dramatic interactive sound and lighting effects
LED Lighting installed by SpaceKraft offers 16.4 million colours at the flick of a switch and, because these switches can be operated from the poolside, all learners can now control the equipment themselves and have a direct influence on their surroundings. SpaceKraft was also able to reprogram many of the existing lights and made other features work more effectively.
The school currently has 25 children aged between 2 and 19 who use the new pool, and the emphasis is on learning, according to Bleasdale House's headteacher Bob Wright
"All our children have profound and multiple learning difficulties, physical difficulties and other associates sensory difficulties, " he says, "and the new equipment provides a combination of effects that we can used in themed approaches with the children in lessons. When they're in the water, they're not just swimming or doing a water activity. THe aim is to embellish activities, to accentuate all learning experiences. Our aim is to provide as many experiences as possible for this particular group of children. It's about the pupils affecting their own environment, it's about control and it's about learning."
Mr Wright has been so impressed with the installation and support services from SpaceKraft that he plans to work with the company on refurbishing other sensory areas within the school.
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