Oakfield Primary School

Hello Oakfield, 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


Oakfield Infant and Junior website

6th March 2019 Year 3 Materials Scientists, Year 6 Medical Physics and Key Stage 2 Family Workshop

Today Year 3 became materials scientists, testing the properties of different materials and deciding what they could be used for. Click here to find out what materials scientists do and for some fun activities you can do at home.

Year 6 found out about medical physics and how they could look inside the human body using physics and technology. To find out more about medical physics, click here.

After school it was the turn of the Key Stage 2 families to become systems engineers, thinking creatively about how they could use their components to design a marble run system. Click here to discover more about systems engineering and to discover more activities that you could try at home.

4th March 2019 Year 2 and Key Stage 1 Family Systems Engineers

Today Year 2 and Key Stage 1 families became systems engineers, designing, creating. testing and improving marble runs to see how long they could get the marble to roll for. To find out more about systems engineering and to discover some fun activities to try at home, click here.

10th July: Bubbles

20150710_085921(1)Today we were outside exploring science with bubbles. We blew bubbles from lots of differently shaped wands to TEST how the shape of the wand affected the shape of the bubble and noticed that all the bubbles were SPHERES. We also looked at all the colours that we could see on the surface of the bubbles.

For more information and activities that you can try at home have a look on our page all about bubbles.

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