NEWS

Darwen Vale High School

A Specialist Engineering College

A huge thank you to the staff of Darwen Vale High School especially the Head Teacher Mrs Lynn Dunning and Dave Smedley the Head of Engineering who hosted the Primary Engineer National Final 2007.

Thanks also to Mr Stephen Jury from Promethean, Mrs Barbara Higginbotham from Data Harvest, Mrs Val Simmonds from the Learning Grid, Dr Andrew Cave from the Smallpeice Trust and Mr Nigel Spenser from the ECITB for their presenting and sponsoring of prizes.

Pupils from across Lancashire, Yorkshire and Derbyshire brought their parents, grandparents, brothers sisters and friends to support their achievements at the Primary Engineer National Final.

Mr Stephen Jury
Vice Chairman for Education
Promethean

Presented the Trophies to the winning Key Stage 1 and 2 teams and also sponsored the school prizes - Promethean whole class voting sets.

Key Stage 1
Richmond Hill Primary School from Yorkshire

Key Stage 2
The Redeemer Primary School from Lancashire

Mrs Barbara Higginbotham
UK Sales Director
Data Harvest

Presented the Trophies to the running-up Key Stage 1 and 2 teams and also sponsored the school prizes - Data Harvest software and control components.

Key Stage 1
Mabs Cross Primary School
from Lancashire with "Sherman"


Key Stage 2
Lower Darwen Primary School
from Lancashire

Mrs Val Simmonds
Marketing and Communications Director
The Learning Grid

Presented the Trophies to the 3rd place teams, EduVison sponsored the school prizes - Interactive Software for use on Interactive Whiteboards.

Key Stage 1
Rosedale Primary School
from Yorkshire with "Fire Engine"


Key Stage 2
Saltersgate Primary School
from Yorkshire with "The Worlds End"

Dr Andrew Cave
CEO Smallpeice Trust

Presented the Trophies and Prizes to the secondary schools that supported the 1st place primary schools at Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 with a year 9 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) Day.

Key Stage 1
Ridgewood High School A Specialist Engineering College for their work with
Richmond Hill Primary School


Key Stage 2
Darwen Vale High School A Specialist Engineering College for their work with
The Redeemer Primary School

Mr Nigel Spenser
Director of Development
and Quality ECITB

All the pupils taking part in the National Final received prizes donated and presented by the Mr Nigel Spenser from the ECITB.

And a huge thank you to the parents and teachers who supported the Primary Engineers at this years event!