by Mr Stamp | Apr 8, 2025 | Design and Technology, School News, Year One
Year One have explored where healthy food comes from and how it travels to our supermarkets. After completing a tally chart to find out what children’s favourite fruits and vegetables are, we then made smoothies. They loved cutting, peeling and preparing their...
by Miss McAllister | Apr 7, 2025 | Design and Technology, School News, Year Three
This half term in DT, we have been looking at pneumatic systems, in which air is used to make something move. We started off by researching different systems and looked at how they worked. We then made straw rockets before designing our own toy cars which use a...
by Hayleigh Greenwell | Dec 19, 2024 | Community, Curriculum, Design and Technology, PSHE, School News, Year Five
This week in our DT lesson, we finished creating our moving toys. Along the way, we faced some hiccups with the use of different cardboard materials. We decided that because a lot of them weren’t working the way we’d like, that we’d group together as a class and help...
by Hayleigh Greenwell | Dec 18, 2024 | Art and Design, Community, Curriculum, Design and Technology, School News, Year Four
This week in school, we have been creating our Christmas card and 2025 calendar for our families at home. Our Christmas card this year is linked to our DT topic, ‘Levers and Linkages’. Each of our cards were unique and incorporated a lever and link. For our calendar,...
by Hayleigh Greenwell | Nov 28, 2024 | Art and Design, Community, Curriculum, Design and Technology, Events and Visits, Forest School, Physical Education, Physical Education, PSHE, School News, Science, Year Five
At the start of today’s session, Phil had a talk with the children inside of class about health and safety when in Forest School. He then showed the children the monsters who have came to play; Chloe who likes painting, Ella who likes making dens and Eddie who enjoys...
by Hayleigh Greenwell | Nov 26, 2024 | Community, Curriculum, Design and Technology, School News, Year Five
Our DT topic this half term is; ‘Moving Toys’. We have looked at a range of different moving toys over the last couple of weeks, resulting in us learning some new topic words such as; linear, cam mechanism and rotary. Before the end of half term, we will have designed...
