As part of our ‘Big Splash Fortnight,’ P7 visited the Nautical College in Glasgow to undertake a variety of different workshops. Pupils spend time in the welding workshop and wrote their names using molten metal. They then used electricity and lightening to cut strong metal into different shapes. We had to make sure that we wore our protective goggles and overalls because there were a lot of sparks!

We also spent some time in the Seamanship Centre and were challenged to tie lots of different knots using rope. John was chosen from our group to pretend that he has been frozen at sea and experienced being put into the giant foil bag that slowly raises your temperature.

Our final workshop was working with Catriona to look at ‘Marine Engineering and Naval Architecture.’ Our group focussed on the stability of the two ships and were shown different ways to measure the stability of the ship and how to calculate an average to determine which boat would be safer to travel on.

We concluded our trip by having lunch whilst listening to a presentation about the Royal Navy and merchant ships. It was really interesting and we had a fantastic day! 🙂

Here is a video of Callum welding his initials onto metal: