Primary 7 were the first year group to use Cathedral’s new Investigation & Innovation Hub. Their challenge was to work in teams to design a kite and, after a week of designing, constructing and modifying, our young engineers headed out into the playground on Friday 22nd August to try them out.

The winning team learned from their mistakes during the course of the week, quickly realising that a flat kite wouldn’t work. After doing a bit of research on kites, they modified their design by constructing a square-based pyramid skeleton and covering this with crepe paper, a material which would catch the air without weighing the kite down. Ingenious!

Here are just a few comments from our Primary 7 learners:

“I loved the round ‘Spark Session’ table where our group brainstormed ideas straight onto the table to get our project started.”

“I liked being able to use a dry-wipe marker to write my ideas and designs straight onto the walls. This made them easy to refer to.”

“I really enjoyed working as a team with my co-operative learning group.”