We had a great afternoon today taking part in a live lesson all about space. We met a real life inventor who had the opportunity to meet Tim Peake. We learnt all about life as an astronaut and what they do up in space. We went onto the international space Read more
Today Year 5 Juniper completed their Design and Technology unit on cooking and nutrition. Throughout this topic we have looked at how food goes from farm to fork, what nutritional information is and designed our own labels. The last step was to prepare the food and cook it together. We Read more
Today, we finished our cooking and nutrition Design Technology unit. The children worked in groups to prepare our ingredients. We discussed how to handle food, food hygiene and different methods for chopping the ingredients. We then went into the forest school area to cook our spaghetti bolognese. We prepared a Read more
The Digital leaders have had a great morning at Rochdale Rugby club to complete Engineering Educates workshop. We looking at what we think a ‘typical’ robot looks like. We then learnt about what engineering is and how they use robots to help complete different jobs. Next their challenge was ‘Motion Read more
This half term Year 5 have worked very hard to create their own stuffed toys. They children designed the toys and thought about the materials they would need. We have practised using a blanket stitch to create the toys. Well done Year 5!
During the Spring 2 term, Year 5 Juniper have been working hard to create their own stuffed toys in Design and Technology. They created a template before cutting out their material and adding any appliques. They then used a blanket stitch to join their pieces of material together. They added Read more
In DT today, Year 1 made the smoothies they have been looking forward to all half-term. They have learnt all about fruits and vegetables, learnt cutting and juicing skills, tasted different smoothies and tasted different combinations of fruit. Today, they chose their smoothie flavour and used all their new skills Read more
This morning, Year 1 were very lucky to have a visit from a local baker. To link to our DT topic, in which we are currently studying our topic ‘Cooking and nutrition’, we invited a local baker in to talk to us about her career. She told us about all Read more
In DT we are going to be designing and making a healthy smoothie. Over the last 2 weeks we have learnt lots about fruits and vegetables, how we know a food is a fruit and where fruits and vegetables grow. This week we focussed on preparation skills. We learnt how Read more
In DT we are going to be designing and making a healthy smoothie. Over the last 2 weeks we have learnt lots about fruits and vegetables, how we know a food is a fruit and where fruits and vegetables grow. This week we focussed on preparation skills. We learnt how Read more