We went up to Kayden’s garden to make dens and nests for the woodland creatures that might come sniffing round in the garden during the night! We had lots of fun finding sticks of the right length to make appropriate dens and nests. It was great to see that the Read more
Year 4 Hawthorn have shown some fantastic team work during out D&T lessons. They worked in groups to create their mountain structures. Some of their ideas didn’t go to plan, but they didn’t give up and used some brilliant problem solving. How amazing do our finished mountains look!
Ash have had a fun but busy afternoon. We learnt why we make Christingles and what each part represents. Then we made our own Christingles and managed to resist the temptation of eating the sweets on them. We also made our Christmas jump up’s ready for the school Chridtmas Read more
Last week we created prototypes and designs for our Mountain models. Today was the fun part! We showed some fantastic team work as we started to create our mountain structures using cups and Papier- Mache although I think there was more glue on some of our hands than there was Read more
Today we were put into groups and each group were given a different picture of a Mountain Range. During this half term, we are going to be creating models of our Mountain range. Today we created prototypes of our structures and made annotated sketches of our designs.
To end our topic ‘Land ahoy’ we have been making some pirate ships. To begin we had to think carefully, from our science experiments, about which materials would be best to make our boat so it would float. We had lots of fun making these in school and would love Read more
Yesterday, we made bread. This afternoon, we were able to taste our bread. We rolled it into small rolls. We made 16 so the little hen could have 1 and we shared half each. We thought it was very yummy!
As part of our Stoneage topic, we have been learning all about the famous monument Stonehenge. We talked about why it would have been so difficult to build all those years ago and what it is believed to have been used for. We then took a 360 degree, virtual tour Read more
Year 4 enjoyed taking part in an interactive session delivered by the company who were involved in the new build. The class worked together ,using sticks and elastic bands, to build some Impressive structures. At the end of the session, lots of the children said they had been inspired and Read more
Year 5 enjoyed taking part in an interactive session delivered by the company who were involved in the new build. The class worked fantastically together to build tetrahedrons using sticks and elastic bands. We built some amazing structures. They were also lucky enough to experience how architects use virtual reality Read more