STEM

5H visited Whickham School for a practical science session where they tested different foods. we also learned about using scientific equipment safely.

Recently in Year 1, we used our amazing maths knowledge to construct numbers with a value up to 100. The children loved this! Article: 28

Year 2 have been looking at materials as part of their science topic. Today in groups they built their own rafts out of different materials and then tested them to see if they would float. All of the rafts floated!

Today Year 2 were given a challenge during our topic on materials! In their groups they had to work together to build a wall and turrets using only 3 pieces of paper and some masking tape. Their finished designs were tested and awarded points for appearance, being the correct measurements and being

5L visited Whickham school for a Science taster lesson. They used various Science equipment to test for starch and sugars in food solutions.

In Science, Year 5 have been exploring properties of materials linked to their uses. Today, we investigated which material slowed down the process of ice melting. We also discussed careers that would use science knowledge of properties , such as a design structural engineer.  

During our  transition days the new Year 2 children took part in our whole school science investigation to see if toast always falls butter side down. The children gave their predictions, investigated and interpreted their results. They discovered that toast does fall butter side down most if the t

For the last few weeks, some of our Year 6 children have been coming to VEX club where they have built all sorts of amazing robots. Some of these projects, like last week’s Crawler-bot, are controlled manually using switches, meanwhile other projects, like this week’s Robotic Arm, are controlled usi

Year Six were off to Beamish today to take part in this year’s Crank It Up Challenge.  We had to make a crane which could lift and lower a weight, move along a track and our designs also needed to include a rotating jib (arm). We had a visit from Martin ,an engineer who works all across the globe