Yearly Life at Somerhill

STEM morning at Somerhill

On Wednesday 16th October, Year 2 and Year 7 were armed with sellotape, split pins, black card and torches, the perfect mix to turn our Somerhill STEM morning into a STE A M morning, with pupils putting their art and design skills to the test by creating shadow puppets. Year 2 children were inspired by the book Space Tortoise and continued the adventure with a story of a journey to the moon. They used torches to discover which objects are ‘transparent’ or ‘opaque’ and thought about which materials would be best to make puppets. The children looked at different ways to make hand puppets and had a go at their own story telling. The Year 7 boys put their skills to the test creating elaborate puppet box stages, thinking of the size and design details – one even had a retractable curtain! The STEM morning culminated in an epic performance of our Year 2 children’s stories to Year 7. Meanwhile in Year 1, the children took on the challenge from Kent Wild Life to create bird feeders to help birds during the winter. The children went on a lovely bird walk and checked all the different types they could see here at Somerhill. The children focussed on the different types of beaks and how they could help identify what a bird eats. They also got creative with melting suet fat with their hands and mixing in seeds, squishing the mixture onto pinecones. They had to think about the length of string and the weight of the pinecone to be able to hang it up. Year 1 picked some special places to hang their feeders and are looking forward to seeing which birds visit. A wonderful morning of STEM at Somerhill!