As winners of our in-school K’Nex Challenge before Christmas, Rachael and Rebecca were chosen to represent Leswalt Primary at the Rhins Cluster Creating Engineers Challenge held yesterday at St Joseph’s Primary Stranraer. This exciting K’Nex Challenge is run annually by the Glasgow Science Festival.
The girls were set the task of designing an exercise bike using K’Nex. They needed to sketch their plan, work together and have a finished product ready to be judged – all within a one hour time-scale!
Rachael and Rebecca were super role-models for our school – they were polite and mannerly, listened well and worked together co-operatively. Mrs Kyle, who had accompanied them, was very proud of them.
Two judges took the time to look at all the K’Nex models before leaving the room to discuss their findings.
They then returned to tell the waiting competitors who had won and…drum roll please… Rachael and Rebecca WON!
Next stop…the regional K’Nex finals in Dumfries! Well done girls – you have done our wee school proud!
UNCRC
Article 29 Aims of Education
Article 31 Rest, Play, Culture, Arts
Meta-skills
Initiative Ivy, Adapting Aleksander, Focusing Fergus
