Year 1 have had an amazing time at STEM Club this half term. The main focus was on appreciating and looking after the environment. The pupils have made butterfly feeders and taken home butterfly identification posters, they have done the…
Handy humans!
This half-term is the turn of year 2 pupils to attend STEM Club. We have been focusing on comparing animals and humans to see who makes the best use of their senses and their physical attributes. So far they have…
You’ve been slimed!
This week was the final week of the year 3 and year 4 STEM Club so we finished with a firm favourite – slime making! The children had great fun investigating the best recipe for slime by combining different amounts…
Up up and away!
This week our year three and four STEM Club members enjoyed investigating aerodynamics. They had the opportunity to make a hoop glider, a traditional glider and a helicopter spinner. They went into the hall to investigate which flew the best.…
A piece of the (capillary) action
Tonight saw the first session of the year 3/4 STEM Club. It was lovely to see both some new faces and some returning pupils who attended the club last year in either year 2 or year 3. Tonight were investigating…
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
This week saw the final session of the y5/6 STEM Club block. The pupils have completed eight activities towards their Crest Award and will be receiving a certificate for their hard work. Tonight the pupils were tasked with Investigating how…
The floor is lava!
Ok well not the floor but the classroom was certainly well lit by the amazing lava lamps created during this week’s STEM Club. Our year 5/6 pupils enjoyed observing what happened when they tried to combine oil and water. They…
Who can make the stretchiest slime?
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…