Design and technology
Easter in Year 1🐣
We have had lots of fun in Year 1 this week. We have learnt all about Easter traditions and why Christians celebrate Easter, made Easter cards, made Easter cakes and had our 500 dojo reward afternoon- watching a film and eating treats. Wishing you all a fantastic Easter!
Design and technology
Design and Technology- biscuit box design
To finish off our DT topic for this half term focusing on adapting a recipe, we created our own biscuit boxes fit for purpose. Together we thought of success criteria for the boxes: Target audience packaging budget colours ingredients we then used a template to create our boxes and Read more…
Design and technology
D.T- Making Baby Bear’s Chair
In D.T this half term we have been making a chair for baby bear. First we made 3 different shapes, a pyramid, cylinder and a cuboid to test their stability. We tested how high the board could go before the ball rolled off. Then, we made the shapes using card Read more…
Design and technology
🍏🍌🍊 Healthy Smoothies 🍊🍌🍏
In DT this half-term, Year 1 have been working towards making a healthy smoothie. They have learnt the difference between a fruit and a vegetable, how to safely cut foods of different textures, how to juice fruit, taste- testing freshly squeezed fruit juice and pre-made smoothies, and taste-testing a variety Read more…
Design and technology
Making biscuits
Our DT unit this half term is ‘Cooking and Nutrition: Adapting a recipe’. Last week we carried out some market research and taste tasted different biscuits as well as looking at the packing and deciding who the target audience was for each biscuit. This week we followed a basic recipe Read more…
Careers Related Learning
Careers Week – Under Armour Fashion Designer
Year 6 were visited by a fashion designer working for Under Armour. She talked about how textiles and computing helped her in her career, with textiles being the key subject to choose. We looked at how football kits and other apparel are designed specifically around the team and club colours Read more…
Design and technology
Taste Test;!
Today we started our new Design Technology topic- adapting recipe. our focus is biscuits- the best topic! During todays lesson we tried and tested some existing biscuits. e We focused on brand, type, taste, appearance, packaging, target audience and texture. of course we really enjoyed this lesson! This will help Read more…
Design and technology
The Three Little Pigs Houses
This week we have been reading the ‘Three Little Pigs’. This afternoon, we used different materials to try and make the sturdiest house for the pigs. We talked about the properties of the different materials, chose our materials carefully and then built our houses. Mrs Greenwood was the Big Bad Read more…