Hello Burradon, 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.
Burradon Community Primary website
Iron meteorite from Chaco, Argentina. One of the ‘Campo del Cielo’ fragments first found in 1576.
This morning Year 3 became geologists and investigated rocks from space. For more information about geologists and meteorites, visit our Geologist page.
To use objects from around your home to create your own meteorite impact craters- just like those we can see on the moon, visit our STEM at Home Impact Craters page.
NUSTEM is an outreach group based at Northumbria University. We believe that STEM should be accessible to everyone, for study and for pleasure, from early years, through school, to employment, and beyond. We support children, families and teachers to feel more confident that a career in STEM is for ‘people like them’.
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 1 have been using our Meteorology and Weather loans box. For more information and activities to try at home, visit our Meteorology and Weather loans box page.
Children in Year 3 have been using our Paleontology loans box. For more information and activities to try at home, visit our Paleontology loans box page.
Other children in Key Stage 2 have been using our Structural Engineer loans box. For more information and activities to try at home, visit our Structural Engineers loans box page.
This half term, Burradon Primary have borrowed our EYFS Water loans box. To find out more about the loans box and to try a related activity at home, click:
