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Deborah Taylor Ault more Park Primary S chool

 P3 conducted interviews with Hamish a retired

Nautical Engineer.

 The S

cottish Engineering S pecial Leaders Award “ If you were an engineer in S cotland, what would you do? ”

 3 children received a Distinction Award.

 I had no idea what this phrase was or why I would

be using this in my classroom .

 I interviewed engineers from apprentice, graduate,

managerial positions , male, female and ethnic

• minority. This gave me a better understanding of

EHOM.

Inspiration: F AMIL Y and TEACHERS

“If I give more thinking time, will this develop their questioning skills and allow children to be creative problem solvers? ”

 Dr Janet Hanson’s workshop on How to

cultivate any habit prepared me for how I was going to conduct my Action Research.

 Bill Lucas’s workshop gave me an insight into

EHOM and how I could use these in my

• classroom. Bill also helped me focus my

Action Research question.

 EHOM and teaching Engineering fits in

perfectly with Curriculum for Excellence it provides perfect opportunities for cross curricular learning.

 P6 conducted interviews with Hannah Gee and

Michael McCree Graduate engineers from Rolls Royce.

 Throughout the school we embraced our

Engineering S kills and developed our EHOM.

 We designed Bridges, Towers, Ramps, Welly

Holders, Tinkering;S crap Material and Primary Engineer Vehicle proj ects.

 Evaluation:  S

tickers: I am a Good Engineer because… … …

 Questionnaires and Evaluations  Learning logs and Learning conversations  Photo’s and Post it notes.

 I have now carried out the Primary Engineer vehicle

proj ect with 4 classes.

 The whole school has entered The S

cottish Engineering S pecial Leaders Award.

 I have created Partnership with Rolls Royce,

Graduate Engineer one afternoon a week; EVER Y WEEK! Engineer fully involved in S TEM week; he presented at S TEM assembly, conducted workshops and interviews across all stages including LCR.

 P6 visited Rolls Royce Plant.  Primary Engineer and EHOM embedded into our

progression framework for Technologies.