At STEM Club this week we carried out two activities. Firstly we reviewed the different glues we made last week to determine which was the strongest and which would wash off clothing most easily. Having concluded which of our samples…
A sticky problem
Tonight we were investigating different ingredients for making glue (child friendly). The pupils had 3 different sets of ingredients to make their different glues from. When they had made them, they tested them for strength, washability and waterproof properties. The…
Primary Science Quality Mark
We were very excited and proud last week to receive confirmation of our Primary Science Quality Mark award (PSQM). This marks the culmination of a whole academic year of collaborative work within our school to drive teaching and learning of…
How DO they get the stripes in there?
Following on from last week’s work on making toothpaste, this week our STEM Club members were investigating the effectiveness of different toothpaste brands. Each group had samples of Colgate, Aquafresh and Tesco’s own brand toothpaste and had to mark them…
Making toothpaste
Tonight was the first session of the year 5/6 STEM Club for the Autumn term. I was very pleased to welcome back our STEM ambassadors Freddie, Georgina and Evie who have all agreed to be ambassadors for another year. Their…
Fab final session!
Last Wednesday we beat the rain to hold a combined parents/carers and y1/2 STEM Club session. We were also very appreciate of one pupil’s grandparents who had to take two buses to get to us. First of all we held…
Scavenger Hunt
This week saw the pupils at STEM Club searching the school grounds in small groups, eager to tick off items on their list. Hardest to spot were butterfly, caterpillar and snail whereas everyone managed to find a spider web, rough…
Blast off!
This week at STEM Club saw the children making balloon rockets. Working co-operatively in small groups, the children had to inflate their balloon and attach it to a drinking straw that had been fed onto a length of string tied…
We are engineers!
This week we were embracing the E of STEM by completing two engineering challenges. Firstly, in groups of four, the y1 and 2 pupils faced the spaghetti marshmallow challenge. The pupils had the same amount of spaghetti sticks and marshmallows…
Bubbles, bubbles everywhere
This week at STEM Club, we investigated different bubble mixtures to see if more water or less water with washing up liquid produced the best bubbles. We also tried a mixture with a secret ingredient (glycerin!) which made the bubbles…