 from turtles and sheep to cars and castles porterbrook engineers were thoroughly impressed with the unique model trains presented by primary school students at the primary engineer celebration event held on wednesday 19th march hosted at the long marston rail innovation centre the event marked the conclusion of a year long programme where porterbrook engineers were paired with 11 local warwickshire primary schools to bring engineering to life in the classroom this rail programme is for primary school students and is delivered across the uk through primary engineer a not for profit organisation whose vision is to ensure all children achieve their full potential through engagement with engineering this is the third year porterbrook have sponsored the programme for its neighbouring schools around long marston and over 2 000 children have taken part ben ackroyd porterbrook coo said we talk about getting young children involved in stem subjects and this is exactly what theyve been doing learning how to build the model but also the problem solving skills which they learn along the way are really important those are core skills to engineering lindy gascoigne teacher at st marys cofe primary school said to break out of the classroom and do something hands on and practical has been really special for some of our children andrew norris head of partnerships at primary engineer said its really fantastic the way the engineers throw themselves into working with the children every school receives the training and thats the real key so that the teachers actually have the knowledge to be able to run the programme 