Downpatrick primary school games

The cross-curricular project uses the game to encourage children to explore the National Trust-owned property.

Most schools participating in the pilot were supported by Shared Education. Shared Education supports children in separate schools engaging in joint classes or projects. The project is the result of a collaboration between the National Trust and iTeach, a Belfast-based education programming development company.

Minecraft is a computer game in which you build things using cubic blocks. It is a bit like Lego but you never run out of blocks and they never fall over. Players can walk among their own creations, and play online with other people who are in the same world. This is the first programme of its kind to feature to a National Trust property and the trust hopes to develop the programme across more of its sites. National Trust co-ordinator, Geoff Magill, said: "The 18th Century Corn Mill at Castle Ward is being brought to life on Minecraft as schools combine the latest technology with the outdoors.

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