This afternoon it was time for Key Stage 1 families to become systems engineers, creating marble runs to see how long they could get the marbles to roll for. For more information about systems engineers and for systems engineering activities you can try at home. click here.
This afternoon Year 3 became geologists, observing and investigating meteorites which are rocks from space. To find out more about geology, click here.
After school, Key Stage 2 families became systems engineers and designed, built, tested and improved marble runs to see if they could make the marble roll for the longest time possible. To find out more about systems engineering and to discover more activities you could try at home, click here.
Today Year 6 became environmental planners and used maps to discover how finding out about the past can help us to predict the future. To find out more about environmental planners, click here.
Year 6 also looked at maps to see how Byker has changed over the last century. To have a look at similar historical maps, click on the links below:
This afternoon Year 1 became naval architects and discovered how to float a goat on a boat! To find out more about what they did and for some extra activities you can try at home, click here.
Today the Reception children have been investigating magnets and have been finding out which materials are magnetic and which are not. Can your child predict if an object will stick to a magnet, and can they tell you why they think that? For more information about activities you can do with magnets, click here.
