Tonight our year 5 and 6 pupils were investigating ratio and proportion for slime mixtures. Rather than using a precise recipe that the year 3s and 4s had used last year, this group were given the basic ingredients and then…
Let’s go fly a kite!
As the pupils enjoyed the design task with the helicopters so much last week, I set them another design challenge tonight. The pupils were given a range of materials and were asked to design a kite which would fly the…
Whirling and twirling
This week our STEM Club session centred around investigating helicopter spinners and altering variables in an experiment, The pupils were given a template for a simple paper spinner designed to reflect the action of helicopter rotor blades. Once they had…