STEAM Pathway
Reception Workshop on Tools - March 2025
A team of ambassadors from the Sellafield Education Outreach team came into school to work with our Reception children, showing them how to use woodwork tools. The children made their own designs out of a choice of an animal, a mode of transport or a musical instrument.
KS1 Workshop on Materials
Our children had the opportunity to work with another group of STEM ambassadors as part of a ‘Materials and their Properties’ workshop.
The classes had lots of fun, testing out the functionality of PPE by splatting paint at one of the volunteers in a Haz Mat suit. This helped the children to see how the suit would act as protection against hazardous or dangerous substances.
Afterwards, they learnt about why PPE is needed and how different types are used for different purposes.
The children were split into teams for a challenge, to design PPE for a teddy bear based on different job roles. The children learned that different jobs would require different protection.
You can see from the photos that the children showed a lot of creativity in their final designs for the bears
Nursery Workshop on Direction
The children worked alongside the Sellafield Education Outreach Team to learn about direction- forwards, backwards, left and right. After this they helped to direct the grown ups around the playground. This led onto the children applying these skills to program the blue bot robots The class used the same directions to move the bee around the map.
Dream Jobs KS1 Workshop
Skiddaw had a visit from Bill Miller who works for Altrad Babcock and hosted a 'Dream Jobs' session for the children. They discussed what their dream jobs would be, how AI and robotics are changing jobs in the future and what the world's most dangerous jobs are. He then challenged them to work in groups to construct the tallest tower out of Lego and then something that Mrs Butterworth would love.
Machinery Workshop
Our Nursery children joined the Sellafield Education Outreach team in looking at how machines work. They investigated and experimented with pulleys, levers, wedges, ramps and incline plates.
Woodwork Workshop
The children had the opportunity to learn about woodworking in an activity ran in conjunction with Sellafield Education Outreach, Jackson's Timber and Lakes College. The children all handled tools such as saws, hammers, chisels etc to make cross half lap joints.
Whitehaven Academy visit.
Year 2 went to Whitehaven Academy to take part in a variety of STEM activities organised by a variety of local and national companies.
The children had to collaborate together to build a wheelbarrow that was steady enough to carry water, build scaffolding for a globe and work out the costing of the equipment used, investigate magnets and program Blue-Bots.
Botley Robotics Workshop October 2024
Year 1 and 2 were treated to a STEAM workshop this afternoon led by the Sellafield Education Outreach team. The children had to create algorithms to make their robots move.
