Thursday 12th December Year 5/6 Cryptographers

Today Year 5/6 came into our Think Lab at Northumbria University to become cryptographers. This involved encrypting and decrypting messages and discovering how this keeps us safe online.

For more information about careers which use cryptography, activities you can try at home and a secret message to decode from NUSTEM, click here.

4th July 2019 Year 5/6 Environmental Planners

Year 5/6 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 6/6 also looked at maps to see how Gateshead has changed over the last century. To have a look at a similar historical map, follow this link:

1899 map

 

 

27th June 2019 More Year 3/4 Geologist @ South Street!

Two more Year 3/4 became geologists today. Did you know that a meteorite starts off as an asteroid and becomes a meteoroid then a meteor before it lands on earth and becomes a meteorite? To discover more interesting facts about geology, click here.

25th June 2019 Year 1/2 Naval Architects and Year 3/4 Geologists

Iron meteorite from Chaco, Argentina. One of the ‘Campo del Cielo’ fragments first found in 1576.

This morning the third Year 1/2 class 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.

After that, Year 3/4 became geologists, observing and investigating meteorites which are rocks from space. To find out more about geology, click here.

24th May 2019 Year 1/2 Naval Architects

This morning Year 1/2 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.

15th May KS2 Family Workshop

This afternoon Key Stage 2 families built then improved catapults to see how far they could get them to fire. For more information and activities to try at home, click here.

8th May KS1 Family Workshop

This afternoon Key Stage 1 families built then improved catapults to see how far they could get them to fire. For more information and activities to try at home, click here.

25th April 2019 Reception Magnets Workshop

Today we have been working with reception class and discovering which objects are magnetic and which are not. We also worked as scientists to predict what we thought would happen and to test if we were correct. Click here to find out more about magnets.