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

23 March: Naval Architecture

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Goat on a Boat 05What a busy morning Kenton Bar’s Year 1 classes have had. We’ve been exploring floating and sinking with a little help from the youngest Billy Goats Gruff. We’ve designed, tested, taken measurements and redesigned to ensure that the goat made it safely across the river.

Now you’re back home, follow these steps for more floating and sinking fun:

  1. Go into the kitchen and find some aluminium (tin) foil.
  2. Build another boat and make it float in the sink.
  3. Test out your boat by adding 1p coins to it – home many will it take before it sinks??
  4. Try out a different boat design, change the shape of your foil and test it out again. Is it better or worse than your first design?

To find out exactly what we did in the session click here.

May 19: Bubbles

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By blowing air through a straw into a dish of bubble fluid we could create a mountain of bubbles, boasting a rainbow of coloursJoe’s been in today blowing soap bubbles of all sizes with reception. All sizes, but not all shapes – and maybe you can describe why that’s the case?

See the Think Physics Bubbles page for more things to do and explore.

9 March: Botany and Meteorites

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Magnifying flytrap-1650thinToday I’ve been busy at Kenton Bar Primary School

This morning Year 2 became brilliant botanists and you can find out all about it by clicking here.

In the afternoon, Y5 were exploring rocks from space – meteorites. Click here to find out more!

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