POKÉMON Go was a craze that swept the nation as millions of people headed out to try and catch their favourite creatures.

Now schoolchildren at one Dorchester school have been getting in on the act by making their own Pokémon Go and giving friends and family to catch ‘em all.

Year four children at Manor Park First School, on Mellstock Avenue, have recently been working across various subjects to put together their own app.

They used the app Aurasma to put the game together.

Aurasma helps people to use augmented reality to turn everyday objects, images and places into new, interactive opportunities to engage using striking graphics, animation, video, audio and 3D content.

Plenty of work went in to the project with the children designing their own Pokémon in art, writing a non-chronological report in English and made the Pokémon Go hunt in computing.

Once all the hard work was done, it was time to test it with pupils, parents and staff getting the chance to hunt around the school for Pokémon.

The school said that everyone enjoying finding out the health point (HP) ratings of the various Pokémon the pupils had created.

The work was all focused on the topic question of “why is Pokémon Go such a craze?” as the children tried to learn while they enjoyed creating the game.

It presented the pupils with plenty of opportunities to get creative, with lots of drawing and art work to bring their own Pokémon to life.

They then worked with Aurasma and tablets to put the Pokémon around the school for the hunt and bring them to life.

The Pokemon Go app was a worldwide phenomenon earlier this year that saw people using their phones to go out and about and “find” Pokémon in the real world.

The game uses augmented reality technology to put the Pokémon out and about in the real world with gamers using their smartphones to look for them before catching them.