STEM WEEK AT WELTON PRIMARY SCHOOL

Welton Primary School recently enjoyed an action packed collaborative STEM week, taking part in a range of activities, involving Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths.

Throughout the week, students produced demonstrations that were then shared with the whole school at our STEM Fayre, with the theme of ‘Time’.

Throughout the day, different classes were joined by parents and toured the fayre, taking part in the activities on offer.

Gracie in Year 3, said: “I really liked showing people how our experiment worked, people kept coming over to see what it was about.” While Ruby in Year 2 is keen to repeat the fayre next year and invite other schools to come and take part.

Lyra in Year 6 said: “It was really good that we ran it as we got to try out explaining it to the others.”

Children also took part in the home school challenge to create the ultimate time machine. A fantastic array of entries were received with Rebecca in Year 3 and Oliver in Year 1 receiving STEM prizes for their winning entries, which were kindly funded by the PTFA.

Debbie Stevens, a teacher at Welton School, said: “We were really impressed by the number of families who had embraced the challenge and worked together to create such unique entries. I think we may have some inventors of the future here at Welton!”

The whole school also took part in a STEM collaborative project. Children from across the school joined together in mixed-age teams to create the tallest tower which could hold a tin of baked beans for 10 seconds using only 30 sheets of paper and a roll of masking tape.

Headteacher, Jon Snell, said: “One of our key school values is collaboration, so it was fantastic to see the children working so well together to solve a tricky problem. A real life skill!”

Tyning House was the winner and will be helping to design new playground markings which will soon be added to the playground at Welton School.

"As well as STEM activities taking place in school, a group of KS2 pupils also attended a workshop lead by Somervale School, which involved the children examining blood cells under the microscope. We had some fantastic feedback and our two schools plan to collaborate again in the future," Jon Snell continued.