STEM | Harton Primary School

Primary Engineer Leaders Award 2023

12th June 2023R Errington

Once again, the children of Harton Primary School have blown the judges of the Primary Engineer Leaders Award away with their innovative ideas to answer the question ‘If you were an engineer, what would you do?’ Over 30 children from our school were shortlisted for the final round of judging and Bonnie was awarded winner of the north east of England! She had her award presented to her at Sunderland University. We are incredibly proud of all of the children who took part and can’t wait to see what ideas they come up with next year!

The Shields Gazette wrote an article about the fantastic achievements of our pupils in this competition over the past few years.

https://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/latest/south-tyneside-primary-school-praised-for-their-involvement-in-primary-engineer-leaders-award-4178921

Year 5 pupils shortlisted.

Year 4 pupils shortlisted.

Year 6 pupils shortlisted.

Bonnie – Y4 winner for north east England

STEM Week – Day 1 in Year 6

12th June 2023D Fawkes

This morning we learned about renewable energy and hydroelectric stations that generate electricity through moving water. We then built a range of models before conducting our research on the energy of the model we had built.

This afternoon we learned about affordable energy and how electricity is transferred to network grids before being distributed to customers before building models linked to this such as an oil platform model, fuel tank model, hybrid car and ramp model, a power plant and a smart grid.

We have had a great first day and have shown excellent collaborative working skills.

STEM week Y5 Day 1

12th June 2023G Booth

Today, we have been building models for our Lego League robot table. We built a high five, an energy storage, a dinosaur, a power plant, a water dam, an oil platform, a car, a wind turbine, a toy factory and an oil truck. It was hard, and a few mistakes were made, but when we found it difficult we didn’t give up even when some of us had to start all over again. Some of us even finished quick enough to start our research on energy! But, that’s mainly for tomorrow, along with coding. The four energy sources we are doing today are: yellow (which consists of oil platform, oil truck, and car); orange (which consists of dinosaur, power plant and high five); blue (which consists of water dam, toy factory and water storage) and finally white (which consists of storage, wind turbine and tv).

We are looking forward to tomorrow where we will be researching more energy sources and we will begin coding our robot.

By Maizie W Y5B

STEM Finale in Year 4

9th June 2023R Errington

Year 4 loved sharing their model and project ideas with other children from year 4 as well as years 2 and 3. It was very interesting to find out about other consumption models that different groups had designed and made. We then earned a well-deserved treat of making our own medals!

STEM WEEK RECEPTION DAY 5

9th June 2023D Wilkinson

Today we were ‘Lego Engineers’. We designed and created our own Lego models. Our teachers have been really impressed with our teamwork skills such as sharing, discussing and compromising, We have had so much fun during our school STEM week!!!!

STEM Week in Year 2 – Day 5

9th June 2023H Langley

Today we prepared for our Team Event. We thought about what questions people may ask us e.g. Why did you create your model. How did you use the core values? How does the poster show your team journey. We worked as a team so that we were all confident in sharing our learning and celebrating our success. The Event went really well and everyone was impressed with our innovative ideas.

We were extremely happy to receive our well deserved ‘build your own’ medal, lanyard and certificate.

Well done Year 2!

STEM Success!

9th June 2023E BEATTIE

The children have had a fantastic week learning about renewable energy and exploring different ways of making energy. They have worked in teams and have created their own energy stories. We celebrated our successful week with a certificate and a prize of 6 bricks for each pupil.

Y3 STEM Week Finale!

9th June 2023jpowell

Y3 have shown amazing skills this week in resilience, teamwork and inclusion and innovation! We have worked hard to design, create, test and showcase our final models and we are super proud of our achievements!

STEM Week in Year 2 – Day 4

8th June 2023Rachel Wright

Today we used coding to make either the motor or light function on our models and tested the programmes to ensure the code did what we wanted it to do.

Then, we worked together with our teams to create a poster to show our learning journey this week. We needed to make sure we including the headings explore, create, test, share, core values and team journey. We each completed a section and put them together to make visual appealing posters about our teams ideas and creations. Team work really does make the dream work!

Using innovation and teamwork

8th June 2023R Errington

We built on yesterday’s work to test out our team models and identify any problems. We then shared ideas to see if we could solve them. It was important to collaborate and listen carefully to each other. This also applied to our coding. We then started working on our team posters to tell other teams about our idea and the journey our team has gone on this week. We can’t wait to share them tomorrow! Check out some of our completed models.