Year 6 have been challenged to design, make and evaluate their own playgrounds in DT. The children have spent the past two days producing their own designs in groups focusing on the design criteria. The playground had to be: fun, safe, something to hide, something to climb up and something Read more
In this D.T unit we having been learning all about Information design and why it is important for us to have signage, posters and written communication in public places. We created an electric poster based on the Ancient Romans. In this lesson, we used our designs and assembled our poster together Read more
This afternoon the children have been thinking about the houses in the three little pigs story. We talked about the different materials they were made out of and whether those materials were a good choice to build with. The children then made their own house, choosing materials that they thought Read more
We have been working together to create a chair for Baby bear. We needed to work together to make a chair that would not only be comfortable but would be strong as well. Once we finished the chairs, we tested how many books we could put onto them before they Read more
We have been exploring strengths in different structures. We used card to make cylinders, triangular prisms and cuboids. We tested the structures by putting one book at a time onto each structure before it collapsed. We found that the cylinders were the strongest because they don’t have corners. This experiment Read more
We made 2 types of delicious smoothies. We chopped the fruit on chopping boards making sure we sanitised our hands before preparing it. We put mango, pineapple and carrot in the 1st smoothie. Lots of us enjoyed, it tasted very sour! The second smoothie was delicious it included bananas, strawberry Read more
We absolutely loved making smoothies! Most children loved tasting the smoothies, some didn’t like the lumps! Oops. We discussed liquids and solids and the difference between the two. They gave the smoothie a mark out of 5. Most said 5 out of 5!
In design and technology, we have been tasting, comparing and describing a variety of fruit and vegetables. We will then decide what smoothie will we make next week based on our likes and dislikes. We have learnt that fruit and vegetables are full of vitamins and minerals and that we Read more
Today we have been learning our last sewing skill appliqué. We will be using our skills to create a cushion at the end of the half term. Here are some pictures of our learning
This week we have been reading the book ‘Supertato’. The evil pea has been causing havoc in our classroom, trapping vegetables and stealing things! We created super veggies to save the day. The children chose their resources carefully, creating capes and different body parts for their superheroes.