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

25th February: Meteorites @ Oakfield

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Y4s at Oakfield investigating meteorite impact craters.

Y4s at Oakfield investigating meteorite impact craters.

Today I’ve been back at Oakfield, visiting Year 4 in the Junior school – we’ve had a lot of fun!

Like Monday, the children have had the chance to visit the planetarium in their school hall and explore objects from the far reaches of our solar system – meteorites.

Mrs Prinn and Mrs Brown’s classes were fantastic today and have all the skills needed to become geologists! If you’d like a little more detail about our meteorite workshop, click the link below.

Link to meteorite workshop.

I’ll be back at Oakfield on Friday working with some Year 6 children who will be performing a science show to the whole school during the afternoon – wish us luck!

The pictures below are Mrs Prinn’s class investigating impact craters and observing meteorites that are 4.57 billion years old!

Make a Kaleidoscope

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One of the things you asked us for was instructions for making a kaleidoscope. How about this? — filmed last Friday here in Think Lab, Northumbria University.

23rd February: Oakfield Science Week

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This week I’m spending some exciting days supporting Oakfield Infant and Junior School’s science week. Across the school, the children have been exploring the universe from the comfort of their classrooms, the playground and the Centre for Life’s planetarium!

On Monday and Wednesday, Y2 and Y4 are handling objects from the far reaches of the solar system in our meteorites workshop. We’ll add a link to some meteorite notes when we’ve finished writing them (!), and in the meantime here are some photos from Monday’s workshop:

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