K'nexperience - has anyone had this in their school?

[roisin]

I've no idea whether this was purely marketing by K'nex, or whether the primary school paid for it, but either way ds1 (yr5) had a fantastic time today.

A lady came in and brought 12 large boxes of K'nex - one for each table (two classes), and they had all afternoon to create fairground rides/attractions working in pairs. DS1 had a brilliant time and came home buzzing about it. His pair won the competition for his class, and they will each get a small K'nex kit to bring home. But they will also be getting a huge box of K'nex for the yeargroup to use during wet playtimes

I think my DS1, year 3 had this as well and had an excellent time. Again, not sure if it was a marketing thing- don't think so in that we do get a lot of Team Elite/ Club Francais etc stuff come home in DS's school bag, but nothing re K'nex. Perhaps it was working on the idea of pester-power!

Our school have just bought knex for wet play, but I don't think they have had anyone in.

My dd9 and ds11 have always loved knex since they were about 3 or 4, we have a big box of it that comes out on a regular basis.

I used to run a k'nex club. It was really popular.

this is what it is

It's heavily sponsored, and as far as I can tell is free to the schools.

Primary teachers - if you haven't heard of this before, you might be interested to sign up for next year.