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.
This week Year 5 have been finding out about what happens underneath the ice in Antarctica. They then wrote their own poem about this. To Find out more and read some poems by children in other schools, visit our Underneath the Ice website page. You may even find their poems there soon!
Today all of the children in Years 1 and 2 became Naval Architects. They were designing, creating and testing boats, using different shapes and materials. To try this at home, go to our Naval Architects STEM at home activity, which uses only a piece of tin foil and some coins.
This afternoon Reception became meteorologists and discovered how to make rainbows! For a simple weather activity to try at home, using plastic bags and an empty plastic bottle, visit our NUSTEM at home windsock activity.
Rainbow by William Welch (CC-BY from Flickr)