Engineering Challenges: Building and Problem Solving Across Year Groups

Hands-On Engineering Across Primary

Following the excitement of the launch assembly, students rolled up their sleeves and dove into engineering challenges designed for their year groups. Each challenge required creativity, collaboration and perseverance as students worked with limited materials to solve real engineering problems.

These weren't tasks with obvious solutions or step-by-step instructions. Students had to think like engineers, testing ideas, learning from failures and redesigning their approaches until they achieved success.

MP1: The Gingerbread Zipline Challenge

Years 1 and 2 students faced their first major engineering task with enthusiasm and determination. Their challenge was to create a zipline that could transport a gingerbread man from one point to another using only the materials provided.