NUSTEM Loans Boxes Spring 2023
This term children at Usworth Colliery 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 EYFS and Key Stage 1 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!
Today Year 2 became naval architects and designed and made boats. To try our activity at home using a piece of tin foil and some coins, go to our 
Today Year 5 have been finding out about what happens underneath the ice in Antarctica. They then wrote their own poem about this. To Find out more and read some poems by children in other schools, visit our 
