Feedback from teachers “Very supportive and helpful team running the event, the resources provided to take back to school were great, a very enjoyable day” & “ The day has been great fun, finding out about primary engineering opportunities for the children. Very inspiring thank you.”

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With the cold,snowy weather we still had all teachers attend our Primary Engineer training event on the 8th December in Oldham. Sticking with the cold weather we went for a winter wonderland themed Key stage 1 project for the teachers to ‘pimp’ up their vehicles.

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Primary schools from both North and South Tyneside, Durham, Sunderland and Teesside were supported by organisations including Nissan, South Tyneside Council, Elring Klinger and the North East Automotive Alliance to enable them to have their teachers work with engineers and be given the tools and resources to deliver an engineering activity with the support of a Classroom Engineer to their pupils.

The teacher training day delivered by Primary Engineer is one of a range of courses that teachers can attend and then deliver in their own classroom. Each course is specifically designed to be commensurate with the appropriate key stage curriculum. This includes Early Years, Primary and Secondary school programmes and Primary Engineer offers further opportunities for young people to display their creativity through its hugely successful Leaders Award competition open to all schools across the UK.

Training day – SASMI (Skills Academy Sustainable Manufacturing Innovation) Nissan

A cold December morning was left behind as the teachers signed-in at SASMI Reception with each having an empty shoe-box under their arm. The humble shoe-box was a pre-requisite of attending the course and was the central resource to the “Structural and Mechanisms with Electricity” activity which was the workshop being focused on for the day.

Teachers were taken through the different stages of shoe-box car design and constructed their own models using tools and engineering methodologies with which many were unfamiliar. Their first task was to build a basic model “Apprentice Level 1” with a shoe-box on wheels decorated with a Christmas theme. This is a task that could easily be replicated with their younger pupils combining creativity and functionality. The day progressed to “Engineer Level 2” with the construction of a wooden chassis to support the axles/wheels, motor, battery and shoe-box and needed to be able to overcome challenges including negotiating the ascent and descent of graduated ramp.

The teachers were given both the practical and online resource links to deliver the activity in their classrooms, and also the opportunity to invite an Engineer along to support the sessions. Participating schools are part of local hubs which hold a Celebration event where school teams compete across the different Apprentice/Engineer levels before a panel of judges, and the winning teams are invited to represent the hubs at the Regional finals at the end of the Summer term.

The teachers attending the day were very enthused “I had a fantastic day with a good amount of practical and theory based learning. Good facilities and a vast amount of knowledge from the experts on offer………Very practical and everything modelled well ……..Really interesting day which helped develop my skills and confidence, and a good support to my limited knowledge about engineering……..Thoroughly enjoyed the day and the project is one that we are planning to use within a whole school engineering week next term. I can see it motivating many of our children.”

Rohan Kohli, North East Automotive Alliance also enjoyed the day “I am the Classroom Engineer working with Cragside Primary school. As a former pupil of the school and I am really pleased to be given the opportunity to possibly inspire some of them to want to become Engineers.” 

Liam Weatherill, Primary Engineer Regional Director (North)

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Taking place at HMS Culdrose, Cornwall, this was Primary Engineer’s first time delivering training in a Faraday cage in an aircraft hangar! Despite being very coldall day, the training went really well with 25 teachers from 15 schools participating, aided very enthusiastically by Royal Navy engineers.

One teacher summed up the training “fantastic opportunity for personal CPD and whole class impact. I really believe this could be a gateway for some of my children accessing a career in engineering and superb to be linked with a navy engineer. Opens up so many opportunties.”

We’ll be back to HMS Culdrose on 3rd July for the Celebration Event!

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After the first event one teacher said “excellent fun, loved the practical nature, great to pair up with an engineer, good pace of session, amazing resources. Oneof the best courses I’ve been on!”

The second event was just as well-received: “very excited to get started with this in my school. Thank you for an inspirational and hands-on day.” We were pleased to work with BOMAG and the University for the first time and to be able to link 18 schools with engineers on the day.

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