Menston Primary School

STEM

What is STEM Education?

Science

Technology

Engineering

Maths

At Menston Primary we support the UK STEM vision by:

• Raising, even further, the engagement and enjoyment of our children in these subjects.
• Finding innovative ways to incorporate technology across the curriculum.
• Empowering children to support each other to learning to use different digital technologies in their learning, for example, through the Digital Leaders Scheme.
• Enabling children to begin to see how the skills and knowledge they gain in one STEM subject can be transferred to another.
• Increasing our engagement with industry based STEM partners.
• Providing careers awareness activities for our children to help them begin to be aware of future career opportunities.

What is STEM UK?

STEM UK is an initiative which aims to promote the teaching of, and involvement of young people in, STEM subjects.  It is a group made up of a range of organisations including employers, Government and charitable trusts.  They aim to raise the achievement and engagement of young people in STEM subjects.  You can find more about the STEM UK vision at: https://www.stem.org.uk/about-us

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  Making Circuits

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  Making Switches

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  Creating code to control a car,

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  Creating code to move the car around the map. We needed to use angles to turn the vehicle.

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  Maths is fun!

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  These robots were built by a Year 4 engineer who also wrote a timetable of tasks for them using the 24-hour clock. Busy robots indeed!

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  Look what we found in our wonderful pond. We used keys to help us identify species.

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  In Foundation we explored colour dyes using sweets.