Year 5 Design and Technology: Pop Up Book Designs
Year 5 students are diving into a creative Design and Technology project: crafting captivating pop-up books for Year 1! After exploring a range of existing pop-up books, they thoughtfully discussed the key elements that would make a truly engaging and delightful reading experience for younger children. With these insights in mind, the Year 5 designers then embarked on planning their own literary creations, carefully considering which parts of their stories could come to life through clever paper mechanisms.
Year 3 Easter Competition
Year 3 students have been busy this week creating their submissions for the Easter Competition, which involved designing and crafting Easter baskets complete with spring chicks and rabbits.
Year 2 - DT - Mechanisms
Year 2 students engaged in a hands-on Design and Technology lesson focused on mechanisms, specifically "Making Moving Vehicles". The children worked at tables, utilizing various materials and tools to construct their own moving vehicles. They explored different mechanical principles as they designed and built their creations.
Year 1 Design Technology - Painting Fabric
Year 1 enjoyed this fun and engaging activity which allowed them to explore colors, patterns, and textures while developing essential fine motor skills. Using child-friendly fabric paints, they transformed plain fabrics into unique masterpieces in readiness to make their mittens.
Year 3 DT - Mechanical Systems
During DT, Year 3 has been exploring mechanical systems. They created a Reverse Motion Linkage using levers and linkages, ensuring that the pivot in the middle remained fixed.
Year 1 - D.T - Joining Fabrics Using Running Stitch
Year 1 persevered with their stitching skills to join two pieces of fabric together. They threaded their needle and used their growth mindset to sew a running stitch. Well done, Year 1.
Reception - Design and Technology - Pancakes!
This afternoon the children selected their favourite pancake toppings. They chose from a selection, discussing their likes and dislikes. The children chopped their own fruits to place on their pancakes, being careful with the knives.
Year 1 - Textiles - Cutting Fabric
Year 1 had great fun looking at patterns for clothing. We noticed that a tailor would use a template to draw the pattern onto the fabric before cutting it out. We practised cutting fabric that had already had a pattern drawn on it. It was tricky, but we persevered, helped each other and succeeded.
Year 4 - Evaluating Their Pizza Creations
In DT, year 4 evaluated their yummy pizzas. They thought about what was good about their pizza and how they could have improved it or made it better. They also discussed whether their pizza matched the design that they originally planned and gave suggestions for other toppings if they were to make the pizza again.
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Year 5 DT - Baking Tudor Cheese Pies!
In DT we have been learning food technology. We planned and designed our cheese pies and then had great fun making and baking them! We also enjoyed eating the pies, they were very delicious.
Year 4 - Design and Technology - Pizza Making
In DT, Year 4 have been looking at how to make pizzas and in this lesson they all made their own pizzas using a readymade pizza-base. The children had a variety of toppings to choose from. First, the children spread the pizza sauce onto their pizza base and after that they decorated their pizza with a reasonable amount of toppings. Then they put cheese on top of the toppings and Mrs.Mountain helped to put the pizzas into the oven and take them out. After a little waiting, the children finally got to eat their delicious pizzas.
Year 5 DT - Investigating Food Groups
In DT we have been doing Food Technology, and part of this subject is to understand the food groups, and how to eat a healthy balanced diet. We sorted foods into the different food groups, and were surprised to find out that some food like biscuits and cakes were not part of the food groups on the eatwell plate!
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