Year 3 - D.T. - Making Mock Ups Of Seasonal Tarts
Our Year 3 pupils have been putting their science and design technology skills into action! Using their knowledge of nutrients and seasonal food, the children have been busy designing and planning their own delicious tarts. We cannot wait to see them bring their fantastic creations to life!
Year 5 DT - Following a Recipe to Make Bolognese Sauce
Year 5 Cooking Up a Storm in DT! Year 5 put their culinary skills to the test in Design & Technology this week, following our adapted, vegetarian, and vegetable-rich Bolognese sauce recipe! Working brilliantly as a team, the children carefully chopped, grated, and stirred their ingredients to create a delicious and healthy sauce. Alongside their practical cooking, they also produced clear, beautifully handwritten recipe instructions for others to follow. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed making their tasty creations, and each child was delighted to take a pot home to enjoy with some pasta!
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Year 1 DT - Designing a pencil pot with a stable base.
Year 1 have been learning about designing products with a stable base. We designed and made a pencil pot. We tested our design to make sure it was stable.
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Year 5 DT - Tasting Bolognese Sauce
Year 5 Taste Testers: Exploring Shop-Bought Bolognese This week in Design and Technology, Year 5 put their palates to the test with a shop-bought bolognese sauce tasting session! Working like true food critics, the children carefully identified the ingredients and flavours they could detect before checking the packaging to see how accurate their taste buds were. We then turned our attention to the nutritional traffic lights and were surprised to discover that the sauce had amber ratings for both sugar and salt—much higher than expected. Inspired by our findings and guided by the Eatwell Plate, the class decided to take action. Realising we could pack in as many healthy portions from the fruit and vegetable section as we liked, everyone has now adapted their own bolognese recipes to include plenty of extra veg. It was a thoroughly enjoyable lesson, and Year 5 are ready to get cooking!
Year 6 - DT - Waistcoats
Have you ever wondered what it takes to turn a flat piece of fabric into a bespoke, wearable garment? This week in Design Technology, Year 6 stepped into the shoes of fashion designers as we carefully cut out our paper templates and transferred them onto our chosen fabrics: two front panels and one larger back piece. We smartly used chalk to mark our outlines so the lines could easily be rubbed off later without permanently marking the material. Cutting the fabric out with scissors proved to be a real test of resilience and control, meaning we had to collaborate brilliantly—holding material taut and helping one another through the trickier cuts. Finally, we lined up our panels and securely pinned the seams in place, leaving our waistcoats fully prepped and ready to sew next week!
Year 4 D.T. - Evaluating biscuits and their packaging
Year 4 are enjoying their first D.T. topic of the year, and it's all about biscuits! Before we lead up to designing and creating our own biscuits near the end of the unit, we had to evaluate existing biscuits and their packaging, trying to determine what target audience each product was aimed at, including what the different types of packaging were made from. Year 4 would more than confirm, that the best part of the lesson was definitely eating the biscuits! It is safe to say that the lesson was a hit!
Year 1-Design Technology-Investigating structures
Year 1 have been looking at stability in structures in preparation for making their pencil pot. We investigated where to add weight to our model to increase its stability.
Year 1-Outdoor Learning-Sorting leaves by colour
Year 1 collected lots of leaves from the school grounds and sorted them by colour. We looked at the shape of the leaves to see if we could identify which tree they came from. Then we used the leaves to make a cardboard tree picture.
Year 3 - Retrieval - D.T. - Sorting Food Groups
Year 3 have been putting their retrieval skills to the test in Design and Technology! Today, the class cast their minds back to Year 2 to recall their knowledge of the different food groups. They did a fantastic job using the Eatwell Guide to sort various foods into the correct nutritional categories. It is wonderful to see them remembering and applying their previous learning so confidently. Excellent work, Year 3!
Year 2 D&T: Final product and testing
Our Year 2 designers have officially completed their Design & Technology project: creating chairs for our classroom bears! After weeks of planning, measuring, and building, today was the ultimate test. The children placed the exact bears they designed the chairs for onto their final structures to see if they were strong, stable, and most importantly, comfortable!
Year 4 D.T. - Making and Testing Prototype 2
Continuing with our mechanical car creations, Year 4 moved away from their original prototype design, making a more advanced version for prototype 2. This was a more advanced design and Year 4 worked really well to complete some tricky joins to complete their model. Once complete, we needed to test our prototype and compare with our results of prototype 1. We got some interesting results!
Year 5: D.T.
Year 5 have completed their working gear mechanisms in design and technology. They have worked so hard and produced some fantastic final pieces. They have had to use many skills, and be precise with their work. Well done!
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