To round off our transition activities this term, Primary 3 all got together to tackle a STEM challenge!

The pupils worked in mixed groups from 3A and 3B. They had to build a tower using toothpicks and play dough. Everyone worked really hard and worked well with others.

After the task, we discussed which meta-skills we had used. Pupils decided that we had used the following:

• Critical thinking: deciding how to make our towers stable.
• Curiosity: wanting to find out what others thought.
• Collaborating: working together in groups.
• Leading: good organisation and leadership skills.
• Communicating: discussing different designs and options.

Pupil Quotes:

“This is harder than I thought it was going to be.”

“I really liked trying to make different shapes and models.”

“We were doing a lot of teamwork.”

“I just can’t get this to stick.”

“I need reinforcements.”

“I liked working together.”

“It was very fun trying to make it steady in different ways.”

“It was really fun to do it with the other class and see what they thought.”

“It was quite hard. It kept falling down. It was probably because it was not stable enough, so we had to do it a different way.”

“It was fun to do but hard to make.”

“It was very tedious getting hands between toothpicks.”