Hello Beech Hill, 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.
Year 5 visited Thinklab at Northumbria University and became ice core scientists. They travelled to the Antarctic and discovered what we can find out about the past from air bubbles trapped in the ice. The children used this as inspiration to write their own poetry. To find out more about the Antarctic and to see the completed poems, visit our Underneath the Ice page.
This afternoon, Year 1 became naval architects. They designed, built and tested their own boats.
To discover how to design, build and test a boat with tin foil, visit our STEM at Home tin foil boats page.
Your child or children have been using one of our NUSTEM loans boxes in class. NUSTEM loans boxes are linked to STEM careers and contain original objects and replicas that can be handled and used as part of classroom activities. While using the resources in the boxes, children get the opportunity to try out and explore some of the skills, techniques, equipment and ideas that STEM professionals use on a day-to-day basis.
This half term, children in Key Stage 2 have been using our magnets loans box. For more information and activities to try at home, visit our Magnets loans box page.
Children in Key Stage 2 have also been using our electricity loans box. For more information and activities to try at home, visit our Electricity loans box page.
