Nustem

27/02/2026

We're pleased to be able to share our latest STEM Person of the Week resource, just in time for British Science Week which starts next Friday.

STEM Person of the Week is a teacher-led classroom resource. It introduces five different role models who work in STEM, and the attributes they use in their work. It's suitable for pupils in primary and early secondary school.

The careers featured this year are:
Airspace coordinator
Electrician
Professor of Advanced Energy
Assistant Professor of Physiotherapy
Teaching laboratory technician

You can download the resource for free from here
https://northumbriaknowledgebank.flintbox.com/technologies/73081e25-3932-4750-a54c-94a884ba577f

You can also pair this activity with the STEM Person of the Week activity in the British Science Week packs.

06/02/2026

This half term our primary workshop offer has been the sports scientists. This is what it looked like in one of our partner schools.
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/17u2XaQv4m/

29/01/2026

NUSTEM Secondary Outreach specialist has just published an interim report about what outreach activities sixth form students find significant when thinking about studying physics or astrophysics.

You can read a summary, and the report, here:

Lots of university physics departments offer outreach activities to sixth-form students in schools and colleges, in part to try and encourage them to

10/11/2025

It's Tomorrow's Engineers week this week (10th - 14th November).

We got lots of resources that teachers can use this week.

1. For Early Years: Civil Engineer. https://nustem.uk/eyfs/civilengineer/

2. For after-school clubs and parental engagement https://nustem.uk/engineering-for-families/

3. Engineering Changemakers. For guided reading at KS2. https://nustem.uk/engineering-for-families/

Engineering for Families is a 6-week after-school engineering club. This page contains all the resource teachers need to deliver the course in their school.