Engineers Week 27th February-5th of March 2021
With some of the classes back in school taking part in Engineers week, Mrs Keeve decided to hold an Engineers Challenge for the whole school, including classes that were still learning from home.
All classes had to design and create their own project. We had some fantastic entries from all classes.
We even had a virtual talk from a local engineer who told us all about engineering
Engineers week in Junior Infants
We looked at different materials and decided
On plastic.
We created a rain
jacket to keep
teddy dry
Creating a coat + wellies for teddy
A coat to keep teddy warm 
Testing out teddies rubber wellies
Look at our amazing creations!
Coat
hangers
from
newspaper
Robbie the robot
Designing & Planning Eiffel Towers
More towers from First + Second class
We had to
measure the
tin foil first.
We tried many
different ways
Of building
our towers
We built free standing towers using only 90cm of tin foil
Junior Infants creating their own towers.
More tower challenges from home
Design and planning from home
Testing out their bridges using toys
Designing a bridge from spaghetti
Making a musical toy as part of Engineers Week
More bridges from First + Second class, we tested the strength of our bridges using toy
cars
We learned all
about bridge
structures
and we
recorded our
bridge designs
Another entry from 6th class for our Engineers challenge- a metal sword.
Lego challenges
very popular
during our
Lego challenge week.
More Lego projects from home
A photo frame, pen holder and desk organiser
all from lego!
What a cool pyramid!
Engineering projects from home
asked us to make a
Bird feeder during
lockdown we
decided to make a
bird house!
The shoe challenge & a headset holder
Designing rafts that float from home
Junior Infants tested how strong their
rafts were by adding toys and lego.
A Talk from a local Engineer
Mark Patton from local Joe Bonner Engineering Company told us what was involved in being an engineer on our school Facebook page. He was very impressed with our engineering designs!
