A Carleton School teacher has created a website based on the railway museum in York and which covers all aspects of the school curriculum.

Stephen Leece worked on the project for around a year to create the site run through the STEM project - Students and Teachers' Educational Materials.

It is an internet competition in which museum visitors are encouraged to create a website based on a particular gallery or exhibit.

From a choice of three, The Science Museum in London, the Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford and the National Railway Museum in York, Mr Leece chose the latter.

"Instead of using the engines or carriages as the theme I chose to use the posters which were an important part of advertising for the railway from the 1920s right through the the 1960s," explained Mr Leece.

The images he used were posters advertising travel to six different locations in the United Kingdom and included London, Blackpool and the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland.

People entering the website can click onto one of the poster images and learn about that area. Within the different pages, other links can be made which provides more information on the subject, eventually covering all the curriculum.

"I spent three days at the railway museum gathering my material and was then given three hours' training on how to create a website. After that it was very much learn as you go on," Mr Leece said.

The end result will prove to be a valuable tool which Carleton School will put to good use in its new ICT suite, which, although already in use, will be officially opened in October.

In the meantime Mr Leece is hoping his efforts can win the school a prize. The closing date of the competition sponsored by Toshiba was Tuesday.

The website address to log onto the STEM project is www.stempages.co.uk and then follow the connections or add /carletonendowedo3/steveleece2/ index.htm