PUPILS from the Marlborough area scrambled to win the annual egg race challenge held at St John’s School.

For the third annual egg race challenge, organised by Nicola Coupe, principal at Burbage Primary School, and Debbie Johnstone, teacher at St Mary's, nearly 100 children flooded the halls of St John’s School in Marlborough.

The pupils from Burbage, Easton Royal, Ogbourne, Oare, St Mary’s, St Katharine’s, St Peter’s, Chilton Foliat, St John’s and Baydon were organised into mixed school teams and given their mission for the day.

Mrs Coupe said: “Each school was asked to put children in twos, then those groups of two were put with pairs from other schools so they could all try working together for this project. There was a Mission Impossible type intro video calling upon agents of egg protection. The children were then asked to create three types of transport to carry an egg without it breaking.

“The first vehicle the children had to create was a car, then the other thing was a boat that had to cross a paddling pool and finally something that would attach to a zip wire and carry the two eggs to safety.”

Each of the teams from various schools, along with a number of adult helpers and supervisors, were given a number of tokens they could swap for building materials.

Mrs Coupe added: “At the end of the session the children were marked points on inventiveness, for their teamwork, for the tidiness of their work stations and for the amount of tokens left. Even if the inventions didn’t work points were awarded for certain elements like lights being added to the car. There was only half a point between the top four teams who all received a certificate. It was egg-cellent.”