Byker Primary School

Hello Byker, 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.

Byker Primary website

13th February Year 3 Geologists and Key Stage 2 Family Workshop

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This afternoon Year 3 became geologists, observing and investigating meteorites which are rocks from space. To find out more about geology, click here.

After school, Key Stage 2 families became systems engineers and designed, built, tested and improved marble runs to see if they could make the marble roll for the longest time possible. To find out more about systems engineering and to discover more activities you could try at home, click here.

11th February Year 6 Environmental Planners

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Today Year 6 became environmental planners and used maps to discover how finding out about the past can help us to predict the future. To find out more about environmental planners, click here.

Year 6 also looked at maps to see how Byker has changed over the last century. To have a look at similar historical maps, click on the links below:

1894 Byker

1912 Byker

1938 Byker

6th February 2019 Year 1 Naval Architects

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This afternoon Year 1 became naval architects and discovered how to float a goat on a boat! To find out more about what they did and for some extra activities you can try at home, click here.

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