NUSTEM Loans Boxes Spring 2023
This term children at Barley Mow Primary have been using NUSTEM loans boxes. 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 Key Stage 2 have been using the following boxes. Click on the link to find out more about the box:
We hope you enjoy trying some of our activities at home!
Year 5 visited Thinklab at Northumbria University and became ice core scientists. They travelled to the Antarctic and discovered what we can find out about the past from air bubbles trapped in the ice. The children used this as inspiration to write their own poetry. To find out more about the Antarctic and to see the completed poems, 
Children in EYFS and Key Stage 1 have been using our build a city loans box. For more information and activities to try at home, visit our 
This afternoon, Year 1 became naval architects. They designed, built and tested their own boats.
This term, children in Key Stage 2 have been using our Electricity and SAMlabs loans boxes. For more information about the loans boxes, STEM careers and activities to try at home, visit our and our 
Today Year 5 and 6 became environmental planners and used old maps of the local area to discover land uses in the past, then planned coastal defences for the future. Go to our 
Today Nursery and Reception have been lighting engineers, investigating light and shadows. We also had a family workshop after school where we made shadow tubes. To make your own shadow tubes go to our 