The Engineer Leaders Award is a fantastic scheme run in both primary and secondary schools across the country. It asks the question
If you were an engineer, what would you do?
and pupils are encouraged to think of innovative ways to solve problems in daily life. Part of the award involves meeting a visiting engineer. This year we carried out the award with all pupils in years 1, 5 and 6 and were lucky enough to meet Eleanor Mackle, a biomedical engineer from UCL and Robert Rayner a robotic engineer from Kingston University. The inventions that they girls came up with are fantastic. They drew pictures, wrote letters explaining their ideas, and carried out lots of research.
We were absolutely delighted that we have a trophy winner in each of the age categories and many girls received judges commendations and distinctions. When the certificates arrive these will be awarded in assembly. In the meantime our three very excited trophy winners will be going to an award ceremony at Kingston University. This is an amazing achievement as many thousands of entries were received from pupils all around the country. A very special well done to Ren, Beatrice and Keira. All of the entries will be on display in school on 28th June.
