Y5 DT 🧵 🪡
Today Y5 brought their Viking pouches to life! Using their RUBRIC and plans, the children stitched their material together using blanket stitch, running stitch and over stitch. They even added […]
Category Archives: Design & Technology
Sewing techniques to join – Y5
Developing sewing skills for design is a different skill to sewing with the purpose of joining materials. We noticed in our DT product analysis of different bags and pouches, that […]
Y5 product analysis in DT
To kick off our new DT project for this term – creating Viking pouches to take on our upcoming visit- y5 have today begun looking at different existing products and […]
Science in Y3L
In Y3L, we have been comining our science skills with our DT skills. We have been learning all about how our muscles work. With this knowledge, we made a model […]
WWII Cooking in Y6
We had a busy morning in Y6 cooking some WW2 recipes – cheese and potato dumplings, carrot cupcakes and apple crumble. The pupils worked well in their groups to follow […]
Year 4 DT roundhouses
In year 4 we have worked fantastically as a team to build roundhouses. Take a look at us using our DT skills.
Tudor houses 🏘
Our DT projects in year 5 have reached the production stage. After careful research and planning, the y5 team were able to become structural engineers today as we measured, cut […]
DT in Y6
Over the last few days we have been working hard to construct a WW2 Anderson shelter. We used creativity, problem solving, planning, and evaluation skills to create our finished product. […]
Y6 Cooking: WW2 Immersive Day
We combined our rations today and created recipes that were popular during World War 2. Using Potato Pete’s recipe book we create potato and leek soup to be eaten with […]
Year 4 Heart of the Willow workshop
Our year 4 children have been really fortunate as they have taken part in an amazing workshop. They all created heart designs out of fimo, which are being cast into […]
Y6 STEM lighthouse 🗼
Today, year 6 started their 3D lighthouse models using recycled materials and modroc. We used great teamwork and communication skills to work together to create a structure that would stand […]
Racing our Mars Rovers 🤖
Today, Y5 put our Mars Rovers through their paces. After designing and making the rovers, we raced them against one another to see whose travelled the furthest.
DT challenge- how can you propel your Mars Rover forwards?
With a range of tools and equipment in front of them, and a challenging question as their task, the y5 children worked exceptionally hard all afternoon trialling and testing their […]
Mars Rovers
Our latest gone learning project was to design and make a prototype for a new Mars rover! This morning, we showcased these and offered some positive feedback to our friends […]
Year 4 bug hotels
Today, the year 4 children have used their teamwork skills to design and make bug hotels. Take a look at their fantastic outcomes.
Fruit salad
In Y3K we have been discussing our favourite fruit and where fruit comes from. We then spent time designing our own fruit salads that we are going to make!
Year 6 Baking
We baked a traditional North East recipe, ‘Fat Rascals’. They were delicious!
Y6 Shelter Building
Fantastic teamwork this morning from our Year 6 children who created shelters from natural materials found on our beach area.
Les fruits
In Y3 our French and DT learning is about fruit. To support the next step in our DT learning we have been tasting different fruits to find our favourites.