On Friday 2nd November Old Rayne School held a science, technologies, engineering and maths business breakfast.

Both classes P1-3 and P4-7 are currently studying STEM projects and we set up the breakfast as a whole school enterprise, the upper stages class even worked with senior pupils from Meldrum Academy to help plan and set up learning stations for the event (the senior pupils then attended the breakfast with the depute from the academy.) We ran the business breakfast as an open morning with 15 expert stations set up around the school. Pupils, parents and staff circulated around the areas as the experts shared their specific expertise with us. It was also an opportunity for the pupils to display their work and show it to their parents and the invited experts. We had representation from to name just a few…

Aberdeen Uni         RGU          SSE – Peterhead Power Station            Aberdeen Branch of the Civil Engineers  

Chevron        Sub Sea 7        OPITO

… and many many Dad’s of pupils who left their companies for the morning to attend as an engineering expert.

It was a super event and the pupils got so much out of it from start to finish. We have invited a few experts back in to school to share more with us about their jobs as the pupils found them very interesting and want to find out more. We perhaps inspired a few more engineers of the future!

The Inverurie Herald and Inverurie Advertiser attended to take photos and do a wee write up that was in last week’s papers.

Fiona Eaton

Head Teacher

Well done to all involved 🙂