Lego Club

Lego Club helps pupils to build relationships, advance their social skills and improve children's confidence. At a first glance the point of the club is just to build lego, however the key point is that children build social abilities such as compromise and negotiation skills.
A small group of children (2 to 4) are given Lego and a general aim of building something, also present is an adult facilitator who can help guide the group when needed. The children/young people are given clearly defined roles which can be transferred (see below). The general aims of the group are :-
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Initiate interaction with other children.
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Draws on a shared interest in Lego to aid the acquisition of social skills, development of perspective taking and sharing.
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Respond positively to other children.
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Rules are formulated to decide appropriate behavioural conduct.
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Take turns.
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Use strategies for compromise and negotiation.
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Use strategies for reconciliation.
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Increases interest in engaging with peers and building friendships.
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The focus of the group is on the Lego. The focus of the group leader is on social communication and the collaboration of the participants.

Engineer - Holds and looks at the plans.
Asks the supplier to find the pieces.
Gives the Builder instructions.

Supplier - Keeps all of the pieces.
Listens to the Engineer.
Follows the Engineers instructions.
Gives the Builder the correct pieces.

Builder - Takes the pieces from the Supplier.
Listens to the Engineer.
Uses the pieces to build the model.