January 2026 - STEM Workshop at Woodside Nursery Glasgow

14 January 2026

Engaging nursery children in STEM activities sparks their curiosity, encourages creativity, and increases their critical thinking skills.

On Wednesday 14 January 2026, we returned to Woodside Nursery to continue our STEM engagement sessions. The third of four, this session, focused on the strength of shapes and their uses in bridges.

The young children aged 4 & 5 years, worked with South-West colleague Zygimantas Dauksas and Martin Cochrane from the M8 DBFO contract, to identify triangles and arches in bridges across Scotland, like The Forth Rail Bridge in South Queensferry and The Clyde Arc (aka The Squinty Bridge) in Glasgow City centre, learning how the triangle shapes provided strength and support. 

Afterwards, the eighteen children worked in smaller groups to each build their own bridge, designing footbridges and road bridges and imaging the types of traffic that would use them and the access they would give over rivers, valleys, roads and railways.

The pupils were enthusiastic to apply their knowledge of their recent learnings and endeavoured to create strong structures, with triangle shapes embedded in the design, which they had seen in the presentations given by Amey staff.  

Image – wooden bridge being built by children at Woodside Nursery school, near Amey’s M8 Woodside Viaduct Bridges Project, in Glasgow.

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