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King Edward VI School hosts huge Lego exbition in Stratford




THE title of the Lego Movie hit song – Everything is awesome! – nicely describes

last Sunday’s inaugural BricKES event at King Edward VI School in Stratford.

Designed as a charity fundraiser, more than 320 visitors came to see a mammoth display of Lego sets exhibited by 70 students from Years 7 to 11.

Above, this impressive model of a busy street scene was displayed by Joe Blackwood at the King Edward VI School Lego building show BricKES on Sunday. Photos: Mark Williamson
Above, this impressive model of a busy street scene was displayed by Joe Blackwood at the King Edward VI School Lego building show BricKES on Sunday. Photos: Mark Williamson

Hundreds of sets covered more than 30 years of Lego history, ranging from a 1990 airport and 1996 metro PD police station to more modern Star Wars ships and technic cars of every shape and size.

A working rollercoaster, displayed by Joseph Chislett, proved popular, as did a display case of Batman sets and the fantastic Daily Bugle tower, displayed by Maximo Mancini.

Amazing MOCs (My Own Creation) included a city beach scene from Joe Blackwood, a D-Day re-creation from Jack Wilson and a Winter Wonderland from the Rodgers family - friends of the School.

The event was designed to raise money for the Battle Back Centre at Lilleshall in Shropshire as KES have built a strong relationship through their Year 7 residential with the organisation that offers support to injured and wounded service personnel returning from conflict and wellbeing residential courses for veterans.

It was a couple of years ago that Sunday’s event organiser, Stephen Temple, head of lower school at KES, met one of the veterans on a wellbeing course, who said that “people only think of us on poppy day”. Determined to prove the veteran wrong, the school have been raising money ever since for the Battle Back Centre with the BricKES event the biggest undertaking yet.

Highlight of the day was a live build of a 5,900 piece Taj Mahal by members of the public and students. Broken down into nearly 70 separate builds by Pavle Lazic in Year 11, the challenge was to complete the build by the end of the three-hour event.

A sterling effort by all concerned saw the model completed with thirty minutes to spare. Donated by Richard Barfoot, teacher of computing and German at the School, the set was raffled off to raise additional funds for the Battle Back Centre. A huge crowd watched on as Major Chris Knight of the Royal Lancers and OC of the Battle Back Centre drew the winning ticket. Ishan Vaidya, a student in Year 8, proved the lucky winner of the awesome completed model.

A total of £1,860 was raised and the event proved a great success and showed there’s an appetite for another one in the future.



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