Engineering 2021/2022

Engineers Visit

Pupils from 3rd class up to 6th class attended an online zoom talk last week for engineers week. Cathal Martin, Grid Manager with SSE Renewables gave the children a presentation about renewable energy and in particular he focused on wind energy. 

Cathal has been doing a lot of work on offshore wind energy and this particularly interested the children. He spoke of the many different challenges that building wind farms in the sea posed for engineers. He was very impressed with the quantity and quality of the questions posed by the children present and with their ideas about how some of the problems may be solved. We are very grateful to Cathal for sharing his expertise and time with us and for putting so much thought into the session and making it so interactive for the children.

Engineers Week 6th class

The boys and girls in 6th class took part in our online engineers visit where they learned about Wind energy and power generation. They also built their own windmills.

 3rd / 4th class - Ms Moriarty

Ms Moriartys class also took part in our Engineers visit about wind farms. They really enjoyed watching one of the engineers week shows  Explorium: Engineering and Sports and as an engineering challenge, they built their own drawbridge

Ms Phelans class

Ms Phelans class watched an Engineers week show and took on 2 challenges. They designed and built a shelter for a lego mini character and they also designed and built their own marble run.

Ms Berrys class

Ms Berrys class really enjoyed Engineers week and they watched some engineering shows online and they also designed and built a shelter for a lego minifigure.

Ms Bolands 1st class

Ms Bolands class got creative and made some lovely geometric structures using spaghetti and raisins. Traditionally, we would use marshmallows for this, however in a test, it was found that raisins proved t be easier to use!!

Ms Dermodys - Sen / Jun Infants

Ms Dermodys class also enjoyed watching the Silly Billy Engineering show and making structures with spaghetti and play doh.