Barley Mow Primary School

Hello Barley Mow, we’re NUSTEM. We’re based at Northumbria University, and we work across the region supporting children, families and teachers in exploring science, technology, engineering and maths. We’re particularly keen to help people recognise that careers in these STEM subjects are available to them.

On this page you’ll find a summary of the things we’ve done with your school, and links to follow-up activities you can do at home.

Barley Mow Primary website

Barley Mow STEM Week

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Wow – what a brilliant week NUSTEM have had at Barley Mow. We’ve been so impressed the all the budding scientists and engineers we’ve met.

Here’s a run-down of what we got up to…

Monday – Coding robots with Y1, meteorite handling with Y4 and Marine Engineering with Y5.

Wednesday – Botany with Y2, Medical Physics with Y6 and a KS2 Family Workshop.

Thursday – Marine engineering with Y3 and a KS2 Family Workshop.

Thanks again for everyone involved, we’ll be back in your school soon!

Barley Mow – Science Week

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Wow! What a week it’s been. Everyone in Barley Mow has been involved in one of our workshops or assemblies.

  • Year 1 explored floating and sinking and learnt about Naval Architecture.
  • Year 2 became Botanists and observed Venus Flytraps with USB microscopes.
  • Year 3 learning all about volcanology – the science of volcanoes.
  • Year 4 became aeronautical engineers, designing and build paper gliders.
  • Year 5 built mangonels (catapults) whilst learning about mechanical engineering and forces.
  • Year 6 explored the world of medical physics using X-rays, infrared and ultrasound.

We also worked with families in out automata workshop!

Thanks to everyone at Barley Mow for working so brilliantly this week – we’re looking forward to coming back soon!

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