Warwick pupils show council chairman what they do at after-school engineering club

Chairman of Warwick District Council, Cllr George Illingworth, and his wife Joanna Illingworth, paid a visit to Warwick Junior School last week and spent some time in the school’s after-school engineering clubs which includes an Imagineering Club.

The clubs comprise Young Engineers (Imagineering) Buggy Builders and Accelerator Club and are all fun weekly after-school Clubs. In the Imagineering Club, which has been running for a number of years, pupils make working models from kits, using simple tools and learning basic skills.

Cllr Illingworth has supported Imagineering, an independent education charity, since it was established in 2000 and he and his wife joined in with the club activities, helping the pupils with their projects.

All the Imagineering projects, which the children take home when complete, reflect aspects of the national curriculum and have real life applications.

As well as gaining self-confidence, the pupils also learn about the real world around them and all the clubs introduce them to science, engineering and technology principles which can inspire them to a future career.

The clubs are run by volunteer tutor, retired engineer, David Bray who lives in Leamington and teachers Helen Wragg (with help from her husband Simon) and Gill Clark.