Cubby house project successful

Building and Construction students from Macintyre High School have returned to their younger years and designed and built two magnificent cubby houses using funding and support from the Northern Tablelands Industry and Education Partnership’s Adopt a School program.

Industrial Arts teacher Nick McLoughlin said the program was designed to forge links between school and industry and has helped the students develop skills they will use for life.

“Even if the boys don’t go on to a building or construction related career, they have learnt so many useful skills.

“They wrote up the costs of the project, sourced quotes and fixed any problems they came across, all of these skills will be useful in later life.”

The students split into teams of three to complete different parts of the two cubby houses after they built scale models of what the finished project would look like while in year 9.

Student Josh Warner said building the cubby houses was good fun and has taught him a lot about the practical side of building.

“I don’t know if I would go into construction in the future, but now I will know what to do if I ever need to build anything, big or small.”

Building and Construction was only offered for the first time at Macintyre High School last year but Mr McLoughlin said due to the success the students have had in building their cubby’s, the course would be back again.more..