Ivy Road Primary School

Hello Ivy Road, 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.

Ivy Road Primary website

Monday 30th September Year 4 Palaeontologists and Year 5/6 Environmental Planners

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Today Year 4 became palaeontologists, exploring fossils and using pollen samples to investigate how the earth’s climate has changed over millions of years . For more information and activities to try at home, click here.

Year 5/6 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 5/6 also looked at maps to see how Forest Hall has changed over the last two centuries. To have a look at a similar historical map, follow this link:

1858 map

1913 map

1948 map

Wednesday 25th September 2019 Year 1 and 2 Naval Architects

This morning Year 1 and Year 2 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.

Tuesday 24th September 2019 Reception Bubbles

Look Bubbles!

Today Reception children had fun with bubbles and predicted what would happen if they blew bubbles with different shaped wands. Click here for more bubble information and activities.

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