Design and technology
Cookery Club week 6 – Christmas Rocky Road
This week was our last week for Cookery Club so we’ve ended with a Christmas Rocky Road. This was really easy and lots of fun to make and of course tasted delicious. The children enjoyed sampling the sweets and chocolates whilst they were making the rocky road too.
Design and technology
Chop Chop
This week in D.T we have been working on our peeling and chopping skills Here are some pictures of our learning.
Design and technology
Cookery Club Week 4 – Chicken Fajitas
This week in cookery club we made chicken fajitas. We learnt about food hygiene and the importance of hand washing when working with raw meat. We also learnt knife skills and practised our cutting. The fajitas were delicious!
Art & Design
Same and Different Houses with Year 6
This afternoon, Snowdrops have had such a lovely time working with Year 6 in their classrooms. We shared a story called ‘Come over to my house’ by Dr Seuss. We talked about how all of the houses in the story were very different to each other, just like our own Read more…
Design and technology
Building structures
During our D&T lessons this half term we will be making pavilions for endangered animals. Today we looked at building structures to try and get some inspiration for our designs. The children worked in groups and were given time to make basic geometric structures before exploring creating larger structures, considering Read more…
Design and technology
Cookery Club – Week 3 – Toasties
This week in cookery club we made cheese and ham toasties. The children followed the recipe and built their sandwich before using the toastie machine to toast them. The smell coming from the classroom led to lots of hungry teachers wanting a toastie for tea.
Careers Related Learning
Healthy eating
Last week for Design and Technology we discussed our favourite food then we drew our favourite meal. Afterwards we swapped our meals with a partner and they had to use the checklist to identify the food groups they included in their meal and any that they didn’t include. We then Read more…
Design and technology
Cookery Club week 1 – Mummy Pizzas
This week saw the start of our new cookery club. The children had lots of fun making their own ‘mummy pizzas’. We made our dough from scratch using greek yoghurt and flour and chose our own fillings. We filled our pizzas then overlapped our dough to give us the Read more…
Design and technology
Balanced diet
This half term we are learning about keeping healthy. In Science we are learning about the different functions of the body and in Design & Technology we are learning about the healthy food plate. For our first lesson in D&T we have been looking at the different food groups: carbohydrates, Read more…