STEM Club – Autumn 1
Below is a selection of activities to carry out during the Autumn term. We look forward to seeing what you get up to on social media via #LRSTEMclub and @Gratnells.
Learning Rooms
Learning Rooms STEM Club
From September 2021, Learning Rooms STEM Club will provide free access to over 40 of our ready-made, tried and tested, STEM Club activities arranged in six in half-term activity packages. Each activity has step-by-step instructions, an equipment list and photographs, making it as easy as possible for STEM Club leaders to dive right in. You…
Week 16
Making a reality of our vision for learning at Trumpington Park Primary School. When staff at Trumpington Park Primary School were taken through the PLS Design Framework, they identified several key areas that they wanted to develop as their next practice within their new learning space. These included; Ensuring the learning space promotes collaboration to…
Week 15
This week’s post is back to Oranga School in central Auckland, where we look a little closer at the two major building initiatives under development on the school site, and some of the support Planning Learning Spaces was able to offer Bridget Lummis, the newly appointed Principal of the school. The ‘New Build’ a 5-classroom…
Week 14
This week I went back to Trumpington Park Primary School, to see how the students and staff were settling into their new learning space. As you may remember from my previous blog posts, this space has been designed with specific learning zones, so it was interesting to see how these were being used by the…
Learning Rooms outdoors
Dr Katherine Forsey will take us on a journey to explore the why, what, where and how of learning outdoors. Katherine will share a selection of practical, outdoor, curriculum-based activities that can be deployed immediately in school grounds and beyond. We will cover a range of activities from Learning Rooms’ free outdoor collection and share how…
Week 13
Oranga School is located in the small residential suburb of Oranga, Auckland, New Zealand. The school sits in the shadow of the extinct volcano Maungakiekie (One Tree Hill) and is nine kilometres to the southeast of the city centre. It has a current roll of 360 comprising mainly Pākehā and Tongan students, and smaller groups…
Week 12
What are the benefits of having learning zones within a collaborative learning space? Designated activity areas. Students learn and embed new skills in these zones. Opportunities for collaboration between students. Teachers and support staff can work with smaller groups. Equipment and resources assigned to specific areas of the learning space. Gives students the option of…
Week 11
In our last post from Grey Lynn School (NZ), the staff wanted to develop how they could clearly identify and convey what a learning activity involved and how it was going to be conducted in the specific zone within the learning space. Our New Zealand facilitator, Doug Crutch met up with School Principal, Alicia Whata…
Rainbow flowers with AmazeLab
Gratnells has partnered with AmazeLab to create an exclusive collection of #WhatsInMyTray activities. Watch as flowers change colour with this rainbow #WhatsInMyTray experiment. Equipment: Gratnells Tray White flowers (you can use celery as an alternative) Food colouring or ink Water Container/glass Scissors Cutting board What to do: Collect all the equipment and place it inside the tray. Add water…