Hi everyone! 5th Class here, and we’re going to tell you all about how we celebrated Engineers Week 2017.
Firstly, we explored the work of engineers. We had a special project to complete on the interactive board in school! We also looked at this wordle challenge completed by some of our brothers and sisters a couple of years ago.
We’ve started #engweek17! We built a word wall, looked at the work of engineers and we prepared for our afternoon challenge! #5thClass pic.twitter.com/8kgipCJ35I
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) March 6, 2017
For Engineers Week this year we:
- Completed a Lego challenge with 4th Class
- Completed a K’nex challenge with Junior Infants
For our first make and do challenge we joined forces with 4th Class for our project – to build a Lego car and see how far it could travel using a hairdryer. Check out all of our tweets and attached videos below!
Our goal is to design and make a lego car that will move. We will test how far it moves with a hairdryer! #5thClass #engweek17 #4thClass pic.twitter.com/sOtMSbtFTj
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) March 6, 2017
The best of fun testing our #engweek17 design and make lego cars! #5thClass #4thClass #STEM https://t.co/HetrL6AUIL
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) March 6, 2017
Go go go! #STEM #engweek17 #5thClass #4thClass https://t.co/taxYFnx8TG
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) March 6, 2017
Every design was just amazing! Well done gang! #4thClass #5thClass #engweek17 #STEM https://t.co/wmY4CAkC2L
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) March 6, 2017
The tension! #STEM #5thClass #4thClass #engweek17 https://t.co/svT3haOtVD
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) March 6, 2017
Afterwards we all discussed what we had learned about our designs!
Making presentations on our designs! #engweek17 #4thClass #5thClass #STEM https://t.co/tawz8JoXq6
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) March 6, 2017
This year we also held our annual K’NEX Challenge. As you know, our challenge is well-established – you can read all about previous challenges here and here. Junior Infants and 6th Class were the perfect combination to work together on the K’NEX Challenge. With four sets of siblings and lots of cousins, we made the teams into family affairs and we think you’ll be very impressed by their fantastic work.
The challenge was to design and make a restaurant. Before we built anything, we had to draw our designs out and plan how to make them as strong as possible.
Here are our tweets from the day!
Today’s #engweek17 shared project work is between #juniorinfants and #5thClass! We are building restaurants in teams using K’nex! pic.twitter.com/pgRrJZ372M
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) March 7, 2017
Fantastic teamwork for #engweek17 as #5thClass and #juniorinfants complete the Peter’s K’nex Challenge! pic.twitter.com/rg0u9sPdp1
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) March 7, 2017
@SHPSGranard We have to build a restaurant together! #engweek17 #5thClass #juniorinfants
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) March 7, 2017
Incredible teamwork! The finished products in the St. Peter’s K’nex Challenge for #engweek17! Well done #juniorinfants and #5thClass! pic.twitter.com/6S9ZhfJttx
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) March 7, 2017
We really enjoyed our Engineer’s Week 2017. Here is a round-up of activities from other classes!
Senior Infants
Senior Infants brought Engineer’s Week into their Aistear work. So cool!
Aistear Engineering! #alwaysbuilding #engweek17 #stem #seniorinfants pic.twitter.com/42ObrDR162
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) March 7, 2017
Their STEM Club also made some wonderful catapults!
During Senior Infant Stem club for #engweek17 we built catapults to send t…. https://t.co/0u2b313mZt https://t.co/QALvSWPnee
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) March 7, 2017
4th Class
4th Class made catapults too! They also made amazing windmills.
Great fun in#4thClass making catapults #engweek17 pic.twitter.com/O3Hus4nLAE
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) March 8, 2017
We made windmills in second class today! #engweek17 pic.twitter.com/BiM3UvT2G4
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) March 8, 2017
Mr. Foley’s Class
Mr. Foley’s Class did some wonderful work using Lego and Mindcraft. Super work lads!
Arturas is giving us a masterclass on Minecraft in Mr. Foley’s room. He has never played it on a screen this big #excited #engweek17 pic.twitter.com/Cpogn1dcUT
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) March 7, 2017
Luke and Michael have built a house for all of Mr. Foley’s class to live in together. The car is next on the list! #engweek17 pic.twitter.com/q3tauYknQM
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) March 7, 2017
Michael says the big bed is for Mr. Foley and the small beds are for the boys #engweek17 pic.twitter.com/is3vG8XoQv
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) March 7, 2017
Here is the entrance to our mansion, complete with steps #engweek17 pic.twitter.com/8nUO1WBv5U
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) March 7, 2017
Arturas is almost finished building our house on Minecraft too! #engweek17 pic.twitter.com/uaY5Theq18
— St. Peter’s Primary (@StPetersBray) March 7, 2017
3rd Class celebrate too!
A huge well done also to our friends in 3rd Class for their amazing work! Check out their blogpost on Engineers Week 2017 here!
Thank you for reading our blog post all about Engineer’s Week 2017.
By 5th Class.
