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
Design and technology
Taste a Rainbow
This half-term, year are learning about being healthy in our Learning for Life lessons and our working our way to making a smoothie in D&T. This afternoon, we learnt about the 5 main food groups, we learnt how to distinguish between fruits and vegetables, and tasted a selection of fruits Read more
Design and technology
Year 4 Linking Project
Today, our linking project school, Littleborough Primary came to visit us for the day. Touchstones also joined us and delivered two workshops. They were a shadow puppet workshop and a body movement workshop and were both based around the book The Crown by Emily Kapff. We had lots of fun Read more
Art & Design
ART – Sculptures and 3D : making memories
Over the last half term, Year 6 have focused on different artists and used their work as inspiration to complete their own memories box and 3D sculptures of their sentimental items. The children have carefully designed and planned their boxes and sculptures and consider the best materials and methods to Read more
Design and technology
DT – Come dine with me
As part of our D&T topic, Year 6 had to research, design and cook a healthy, budget-friendly three-course meal. We chose bruschetta, with tomatoes and cheese, to start, chicken fajitas for the main course, and healthy fruit kebabs for dessert. We looked at how to prepare the ingredients, Read more
Design and Technology
Our completed stuffed toys
Today Year 5 completed our stuffed toys. The children have worked ready hard during this unit and and created some brilliant toys. Lots of the children initially found the sewing aspect difficult but persevered and should be very proud of themselves. Well done Year 5!