Kenton Bar Primary School

Hello Kenton Bar, 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. You might also want to check out our calendar of upcoming events:

Events


Kenton Bar Primary website

NUSTEM at Kenton Bar Primary School 2022-2023

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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.

Children in Early Years have been using our Water loans box. For more information about the loans boxes, STEM careers and activities to try at home, visit our  and our Water loans box page.

Children in Key Stage 2 have been using our Evolution loans box. For more information about the loans boxes, STEM careers and activities to try at home, visit our  and our Evolution loans box page.

NUSTEM at Kenton Bar Careers Fair

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Today we have been at the Careers Fair, telling children all about the different careers they could have involving computer programming.

Younger children have been doing some simple coding using arrows to direct a robot, and may have come home with the game in the picture. For more information about how to print out and play the game, go to our STEM at home Robot Coding page.

Older children have been doing some cryptography and may have come home with a cipher wheel or a code key. For more information about cryptography and making your own codes at home, please go to our Cryptographer page.

Friday 17th June Year 6 Astronomers

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This morning Year 6 became astronomers and found out about the development of the telescope throughout history as well as about the role of women in astronomy. They discovered what stars are made from and how astronomers know this by analysing the light they produce. To find out more about astronomy and to try some activities at home, click here.

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