{"id":20753,"date":"2026-02-09T14:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T14:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/?p=20753"},"modified":"2026-02-09T15:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T15:15:15","slug":"knex-kits-and-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/2026\/02\/09\/knex-kits-and-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"KNEX kits and kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today Olivia and Lily got the chance to represent Leswalt Primary and travelled to Sheuchan Primary school to take part in the cluster heat of the KNEX engineering challenge.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

It\u00a0 is a great opportunity where pupils have the chance to demonstrate their creative design and build skills by solving set engineering challenges using the construction set K’NEX. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Our girls used their communication skills alongside their design<\/em><\/span>
\nand build skills to compete against fellow pupils from all the other schools in the Stranraer area.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The challenge was to make something for a children’s playpark which had a handle to turn to make it move.\u00a0 Our team made a swing.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

They did a great job – well done Olivia and Lily!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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META SKILLS<\/span><\/p>\n

Collaborating<\/span><\/p>\n

Communicating<\/span><\/p>\n

Creativity<\/span><\/p>\n

Critical thinking<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today Olivia and Lily got the chance to represent Leswalt Primary and travelled to Sheuchan Primary school to take part in the cluster heat of the KNEX engineering challenge. It\u00a0 is a great opportunity where pupils have the chance to demonstrate their creative design and build skills by solving set engineering challenges using the construction … Continue reading “KNEX kits and kids”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":640,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/640"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20753"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20761,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20753\/revisions\/20761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}