Second Fife carrier project as Park Road pupils assemble warship kits

Fife schoolchildren got their hands on the navy’s largest warship yesterday.

With only weeks to go till the Queen names aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, pupils from Rosyth’s Park Road Primary got in on the act, assembling their own albeit slightly smaller version.

Babcock designer Alf Ramsay, who created the model-making kit in use, looked on as youngsters from primary four to seven replicated the intricate assembly work going on just along the road at Rosyth dockyard.

It is part of the schools engagement programme surrounding the naming ceremony.

Flat pack models of each of the blocks are assembled by each school before they are combined to make a mini aircraft carrier.