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The Northern Road, Crosby, Liverpool, L23 2RQ
Welcome to STEM - Science Technology Engineering Mathematics
Science
Click on the image for Science news, websites and a calendar of events.
Technology
Click on the image to find out about what we do in Design and Technology.
Computing
Click on the image to find out about what we do in Computing.
Mathematics
Click on the image to find out about what we do in Mathematics.
Science Celebration Days
4th - 10th October 2024 - World Space Week
21st December 2024 - Winter Solstice
Click on the green button to visit the Royal Greenwich Observatory website to find out about the Winter Solstice.
11th February 2025 - International Day of Women & Girls in Science
This is an initiative of the United Nations.
7th - 16th March 2025 - British Science Week
The theme for British Science Week 2024 is 'Time' to link with the 30th anniversary of British Science Week.
5th June 2025 - World Environment Day
21st June 2025 - Summer Solstice
Click on the green button to visit the Royal Greenwich Observatory website to find out about the Summer Solstice.
3rd July 2025 - International Plastic Bag Free Day
How can we stop using plastic bags?
Science At Home Websites
First Discoverers
Here are 10 experiments for children in Early Years and Foundation Stage.
Wow Science
This website has a fabulous range of science experiments that can be carried out at school and at home.
Science Fun
Lots of science experiments to try at home.
Science Bob
Great experiments to try at home. Check with your parents and carers first.
KS1 BBC Bitesize
KS1 BBC Bitesize
Games, videos and activities related to the topics studied in Years 1 and 2.
KS2 BBC Bitesize
KS1 BBC Bitesize
Games, videos and activities related to the topics studied in Years 3 to 6.
CBeebies Let's Go Club
Explore the fun of science in your own home with some amazing experiments from The Let's Go Club. You and your little one can recreate these simple colourful experiments using common household items. Perfect for budding scientists!
Science Kids
Check out the Science Kids free experiments section, full of fascinating hands-on experiments that are a great way to enjoy the world of science.
Learn interesting science and technology facts by experimenting with different materials that react in surprising ways. You'll find many experiments can be done using simple ingredients found around the house (with adult supervision of course). Basic materials can help you perform experiments that are simple, safe and perfect for kids.
Royal Institution
Try some of the experiments on the Royal Institution webpage. Each one has a video and activity sheet. You could investigate and make cakes in a cup; launch a bottle rocket, experiment with cabbage juice; make gas to inflate a balloon and learn about mixtures, solutions and chemical reactions while making home-made play dough. The experiments are labelled Chemistry, Brain, Physics and Maths and use household items.
The Scouse Scientist
The Scouse Scientist
Find out what a Clinical Scientist in Genetics in the NHS does and make a DNA model on The Scouse Scientist YouTube channel.
Design and Technology
We use the Design and Technology Association's 'Project on a Page' scheme of work which is based on the six essentials of good practice:
• User – children should have a clear idea of who they
are designing and making products for,
• Purpose – children should know what the products they design and make are for.
• Functionality – children should design and make products that function in some way to be successful.
• Design Decisions – when designing and making, children need opportunities to make informed decisions
• Innovation – when designing and making, children need some scope to be original
• Authenticity – children should design and make products that are believable, real and meaningful to themselves
Year 2 Fire Engines
In Year 2, we have been learning about The Great Fire of London, so we designed and made a moving toy fire engine with functioning wheels and axles.
We had great fun testing and evaluating them!
Computing
In Computing, we use resources from the National Centre for Computing Education's 'Teach Computing' scheme with units covering:
- Computer Systems and Networks
- Creating Media
- Programming
- Data and Information
We teach online safety through using activities from CEOP's ThinkUKnow scheme.
Visit our online safety pages for more details.
Each year we take part in the Hour of Code.
In 2022, we took part in Mission Zero sending Python programs to the International Space Station, sending messages to the astronauts and measuring the relative humidity. In 2023
Year 1 March - Developing computer skills
Year 1 children are developing their computer keyboard and mousepad skills to draw a digital design of one of the characters from the Gingerbread Man. They are also learning how to open and save documents.
Mission Zero 2023
In 2023, Year 6 sent a program to the International Space Station. They each received a certificate showing the time and place that the ISS was over when their program ran. Each pair wrote a program in Python by coding a design from nature.
Mission Zero 2022
Mission Zero is a European Space Agency project that enables children to write and send a Python program to the International Space Station to run on the Astro Pi computers on board. This year the that are going to be run on the ISS in May. In 2021/22, Year 6 wrote programs that measured the relative humidity on board the ISS, to so that the crew were aware that it was within normal safety levels. Click on the image above to see Ava and Harrison's program running on an emulator.
Year 5 Hour of Code
Each year our children take part in Hour of Code activities. Year 5 designed their own Flappy Bird games. Click on the image to play Lexi and James's game.
Year 6 Hour of Code
Year 6 Hour of Code
Year 6 used the Hour of Code activities to design a Dance Party animation. Click on the image to run Stephen and Evie's program .
Mathematics
Mastering Number
Mastering Number
Year 1 and Year 2 children have daily NCETM Mastering Number sessions focusing on key knowledge and understanding of of number composition, developing number sense and fluency. Reception children begin their sessions at an appropriate time in the academic year.
Mastering Number
Mastering Number
Mastering Number
The children become familiar with using the Rekenrek to compose and decompose numbers. This helps them build strategies for doing basic mental maths calculations.
Mastering Number
Children learn key vocabulary and use stem sentences to help them to explain their mathematical thinking and reasoning, giving them firm foundations for Key Stage 2.
Maths Across Our School
Maths Across Our School
Maths Across Our School
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Maths Across Our School
Fri 14th Feb - NSPCC Number Day
We had lots of fun on NSPCC Number Day - dressing up in costumes, wearing our favourite numbers, measuring and weighing, and playing games.
Fri 22nd Nov 2024 - Primary Maths Challenge
Well done to the Year 5 and Year 6 children who took part in the Primary Maths Challenge.