Christie Park pupils tested their thinking skills and gained an insight into future opportunities as they took part in a No Limits Engineering Careers Day.

Seven engineers working for a variety of companies such as Babcocks at Faslane, Aggreko, BAE Systems and Siemens arrived at the school to discuss their jobs and share their expertise with the primary sevens.

In the morning, the children divided into teams and interviewed each engineer in order to guess what type of engineering they did.

The children then had lunch with the engineers and STEM challenges were set up for the children to work on with the engineers in the afternoon.

An engineer from Babcocks demonstrated how a submarine works using a water bottle, straw and plasticine, while other stations looked at how to make boats seaworthy and how to make electromagnets.

For one station, the children had to ask questions to figure out what the fault was in a cooker.

Kathleen Burns, who organised the event along with fellow primary seven teacher Elizabeth Campbell, said: “The children loved it and thought it was fantastic.

“The event helped raise the profile of engineering as a possible career and gave the children an opportunity to work with real life engineers on real life tasks.”

Murray Blyth, a techno-commercial engineer at Siemens, was one of the professionals who shared his experiences and knowledge with children on the day.

He told the school following the event: “It was a really enjoyable day and I was very impressed by the professionalism of the event and the engagement of the children. Well done to all.”

The careers day was held as part of the classes’ participation in the Scottish Engineers Leadership Awards, which the school takes part in every year.

As part of the awards the pupils must interview an engineer and also come up with an invention and design it.

They then write a pitch letter and students from Strathclyde pick one invention from the schools who have entered and make a prototype of it.