Year 1 DT Windmills

Making Windmills! Year 1 have been learning about windmills from the pat and present, including what purpose they had here in the UK throughout the years. We then met ‘Mr Tiddles’, a mouse who was looking to have a windmill designed and built to live in. We listened to his ‘preferences’ and then set about designing the 2D ‘nets’ which would later become the ‘structures’ and ‘turbines’. After assembling our structures we then punctured holes and began to assemble the ‘sails’ of the turbine by connecting them to the ‘axle’. Finally, it was time to test them and evaluate them!

Year 1 DT- Designing and Creating Royal Puppets

Our process: 1. First we learned about ways to attach fabric together, such as stapling or safety pinning. We assessed the advantages and disadvantages to each and decided to use staples for our puppets. 2. We designed the puppets by labelling the parts and embellishments that will make them look like Kings or Queens. 3. Next we assembled our puppets. We used ‘templates’ to cut out our material and attached them together using staples, making sure they are ‘alligned’. 4. We then embellished our puppets by carefully selecting materials and sing our design as a guide. 5. Finally we evaluated our puppets against the design criteria and thought about how we could possibly improve them next time.

Year 2 DT DAY

Today Year 2 had a really fun DT day. We were given the job to design and make a model of a ferris wheel. First we had to learn all about wheels and axles in order to get our model to work. We really enjoyed thinking about the design criteria, creating our designs and then working as a team to build a model of what our wheel might look like. Do you like our designs and models? All of our wheels worked in the end.

Year 2 DT - Making Baby Bear's Chair

Our DT this half term has been making a chair for Baby Bear. We have learned about stability, strength and stiffness. We have tested strength and stability in various ways before going ahead a making our chairs. We then tested and evaluated our models based on the design criteria.

Year 1 -DT- Wheels and Axles - CREATE!!!

Post 2 of 2: After lots of designing and testing we were ready to start creating! We were thrilled with how our vehicles turned out! Next, we'll be evaluating the process and thinking of how we might improve things for next time. Such as, for example, using duct tape instead of masking tape.

DT- Year 1- Wheels and Axles- DESIGN and TEST

Post 1 of 2: Design Stage- This past half-term we have been working on ‘Wheels and Axles’ for our DT topic. We started by learning about what types of vehicles/objects have wheels and what makes them work best. We then learned about ‘axles’, ‘axles holders’ and the ‘chassis’. We experimented with card, straws and masking tape to create our first model. We learned some ‘top tips’ from this process which we applied to the creation of our final product vehicles (following post). We drew and labelled our designs and brought boxes/tubes in from home ready to create!

Y4 Ancient Greece Day

Year 4 had a great day last half term celebrating all of their learning about Ancient Greece. The children were asked to bring in a home project all about Ancient Greece. They did a brilliant job and were very brave standing in front of the class for their presentations. We also recapped everything we have learned this half term and made some Ancient Greek recipes. Did you know the Ancient Greeks didn't have tomatoes?

Year 1 Smoothies - Additional Photos

Year 1 Smoothies- Day 2

Our second group had their turn in the kitchen today to create smoothies! Leading up to this we have been busy learning about how fruit and vegetables grow, the differences between them, tasting them and then creating ingredients lists. The children had great fun and will be rating their smoothies out of five stars!

Year 1 Smoothies, Day 1

Today half the classes went into the kitchen armed with their aprons and their ingredients lists. They worked together as a team to chop and prepare the fruit and then took turns using the blenders. Taste testing then commenced and most were deemed to be delicious! A few (mainly the ones that had carrot in) were given mediocre reviews as they were a bit chewy! Next Friday the other children will be having their turns, too.

Y4 Pavilion Structure Exploration

Y4 are going to be constructing and designing temples for one of the Greek Gods. As part of our journey we explored creating different shapes for our structures and the best way to keep them stable. We used sweets and cocktail sticks for this activity. We had lots of fun!

Year 1 DT- Fruit or Veg?

This week Year 1 began their first Design Technology topic, Fruit and Vegetables! Today we were exploring a variety of both, using our senses to feel and smell them. We discussed where fruit and veg come from, how we know when they're ripe for picking, how they are healthy for us and how different people have different preferences about which taste the best. Our main task was to decide how to sort them into 'fruit' or 'vegetable' categories. Some of us were very surprised to find out that it's all about the seeds! We cut them open and examined the different types of seeds inside and then sorted them into categories. The children agreed that the most surprising 'fruits' were butternut squash and cucumber! The children followed up with some excellent questions, such as, 'Where do vegetable seeds come from then?" This topic will eventually lead to design and taste our own healthy smoothies, so stay tuned!

Using Electricity

 In Year 4, we have been learning about using electricity. We have explored making our own circuits, and designing our own torches. 

Year 2 Sewing

Year 2 have been learning to sew. We have learned how to stitch a running stitch and have made a pouch from felt with a garden theme.

Year R- Jungle topic Week 1

This was the first week of our new ‘Jungle’ topic. We’ve enjoyed making parrots using paint, glue and tissue paper. We also made our very own binoculars to use for jungle exploring! There has been lots of den-making again this week using various materials and methods. It was so much fun to pretend that we were camping out in the jungle! It has been lovely to see so many children enthusiastic to write about our new topic! In other news, we had to say ‘good-bye’ to our butterflies, who emerged from their cocoons over the weekend. They’ll be fluttering around the school area so no doubt you may see one of the one day soon!

A week in Year R....

This week was SO much fun! We have been learning about bees! We had lots of fun tasting honey and exploring our bee sensory tray. We all dressed up on Wednesday for the 'Ugly Bug Ball' and had great fun in the sun buzzing and flying around showing off our costumes. We've added a pizza oven to our Minibeast Cafe and have been dishing up some very gross pizzas for the customers. Today was a very rainy day and so we built a den in the woods to shelter us from the pouring rain. We also used foam to play 'Minibeast Ice-cream Shop'. We hope you enjoy watching!

Year 6 Design and Build the Perfect Playground!

Year 6 have been working today, creating their perfect playgrounds. They looked at examples of real life playgrounds, created a design criteria and made their playgrounds in teams. Check out their brilliant hard work! Well done Year 6!

Static Electricity DT Challenge

Today we explored static electricity using lots of experiments. Then using our findings we were set the challenge of designing a game for our classmates to play, that had to use static electrictity. See what we got up to!

Ferris Wheels in Year 2

Year 2 have had a fun first day back after half term with their DT Day, which involved designing and making ferris wheels. First we learned all about the inventor George Ferris who created the very first wheel back in 1893. We were then given a design brief for the wheel we needed to make, as well as learning about how an axle and wheel mechanism works. We had great fun working in teams to make our wheels. Do you like them?

Year 3-Curious about Static Electricity

 Year 3 have been having fun finding out all about static electricity: we have been very curious to discover what might happen. What did? Take a look:-