Our STEM day today, as the title alludes to, was shaped around designing and constructing bridges that would withstand a span across the Solent. A load was tested in the form of a thesaurus to see whether the infrastructure of the bridge was adequate enough. This was harder than it first appeared as the children could only use plain paper as their raw material. They had to consider the idea of scaling and scale factor to be able to think proportionately.

The children exhibited many of St Peter’s core values in the process, particularly being creative, reflective, cooperative, curious and resilience. There were definitely some youthful James Dysons in-the-making!

See below for some of their ingenious designs…