STEM

On Wednesday the 18th June, ten bright-eyed Year 6s set off to Nissan to compete in this year’s VEX GO competition. They had an incredible day and represented Front Street School brilliantly.  Using their expert knowledge of coding, some well-planned tactics and heaps and heaps of teamwork they m

This week, our Year Six children have started working on two STEM projects. The first, is our Vex Go project which we will continue to work on until some of us attend the Vex Go Competition in June. The second, is our “Crank It Up” challenge: a project which involved designing and making TWO working

The year two children completed their Spring DT work today with a final challenge: design and make a model trolley for Nick, our caretaker, to help him move heavy objects around. We worked well together in pairs and have really enjoyed this unit of work!  

This week Year 1 have planted a variety of vegetables! We imagined that we were vegetable farmers and used our science knowledge to become expert farmers. We thoroughly enjoyed an afternoon of planting vegetables and hope they sprout soon!

Year 4 had a great lesson this afternoon learning about how hydrogen can power cars. Thank you to Alex from Northern Gas for sharing her knowledge and resources. articles: 12, 28

This afternoon, we had a great lesson trying to make working axles and wheels. We are looking forward to testing out different types of axle holder next week.  

Year 2 are investigating which drinks help plants to grow the strongest. Today, we set up 7 plants and hydrated them with different liquids: water, milk, Coca Cola, lemon juice, orange juice, blue food colour and tea. We predicted which we think will help the plant grow the best. What do you think?

In DT, we used squared paper to make prototype pencil cases. This meant we could test whether our designs were the right size before we started cutting out material. We then used paper templates and pinned them to our fabric, before cutting out our different pieces.   Article 29

Year 2 have had fun using coder cards to drive their robots to a specific area whilst avoiding objects.

Front Street’s DT ambassadors presented a brilliant assembly to the rest of school, all about inventions that have transformed our lives. At the end of their presentation – the ambassadors set a challenge to everyone in assembly.  Everyone was asked to choose an invention which had happened within