Category: STEM

26th March 21

For British Science Week earlier this month, each child in Prep was set the task of producing a piece of work linked to the national theme: Innovating for the Future.  The submissions have been incredible, ranging from generating energy from our own movement, a home-made 3d-printed catapult, a water-powered car, vaccine pills, voice-activated pens, new…

26th March 21

The Mission: NASA has selected your engineering team to plan a human settlement on Mars. Your mission is to design a colony that considers both human health and happiness. Success Criteria: Plan, design and construct a Mars colony with consideration for human health and happiness. Employ STEM skills and work cooperatively as a team. First,…

19th March 21

Very well done to Myle in Year 3 who has been chosen to be a 7-9 years old STEM Ambassador for the Majortim.space organisation. This organisation promotes the interest in Space Exploration and STEM related subjects among children. Myle sent in a brilliant application for his award. Here are some of the answers to his…

12th March 21

This week marks British Science Week, with an overarching theme of Innovating For The Future. In Pre-Prep We have taken part in lots of exciting scientific projects and investigations, including creating posters with the theme of British Science Week in mind. We have also been learning about ‘smashing stereotypes’, where we have learnt that, although…

5th March 21

Following on from our recent Y6 science study of electricity production and renewable and non-renewable energy, and as part of our Careers Week focus, Mrs Maio spoke to each Y6 class about her work with the energy transition process.  She talked about the industry’s aim to eliminate our use of fossil fuels and be ‘carbon…

26th February 21

This week in Reception we have been adding coins together to find the total.  Also the children have learnt that you can use different coins to make the same total. For example the total of 4p can be made up of 1p,1p,1p and 1p or 2p and 2p or 2p,1p and 1p. Great problem solving…

12th February 21

Safer Internet Day 2021 was held earlier this week, on Tuesday 9th February. The event was marked at BCS with a week of Online Safety lessons across the whole school, with our focus on the theme “An internet we trust: exploring reliability in the online world.” We all know that the internet has an amazing…

29th January 21

We have enjoyed a very busy and productive week in Year 1. Investigating waterproof materials to keep the Blue Coat Bear dry was the focus of our practical experiment in science this week. In Humanities, the children focused on Florence Nightingale, thinking about the positive influence that she had on the nursing profession. They wrote…

11th December 20

This week Year 6 developed their understanding of some of the issues facing the world through a study of the text ‘If the World Were a Village’.  The children were challenged to represent information from the text graphically.  They studied some of the problems facing survivors following natural disasters and discussed some of the ways…

4th December 20

What is STEM?  STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. These are all areas of learning that children need to be comfortable with to excel in the future.  STEM education is far more than just ‘lumping’ those subject titles together.  It’s a philosophy of education that embraces teaching skills in a way that resembles real…