St John The Baptist Primary School, Portadown
🔵 Wear Blue Day 🔵 [6th February 2026]
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Engineering Challenge - Truss bridges.

7th Nov 2023
Continuing our “Bridge to France” topic, children were challenged to explore the strength of the triangle when constructing a TRUSS bridge. They used marshmallows and cocktail sticks to create sections of bridge supports (& may have had a little nibble along the way) - it was tricky to create stability but pupils realised that the “x” shape would create 4 smaller triangles and add strength.