In Year 1, we have been learning about verbs and using them to write instructions for baking gingerbread cookies, inspired by our story The Gingerbread Man.. The children enjoyed mixing the ingredients together, cutting the different shapes with the cutter and of...
Reception class had a visit from Mrs Taster from Tiny Tasters today. We listened, watched and worked hard to create Rainbow Fishcakes. Mrs Tasters taught us all about the journey of the ingredients we used, including the sweet potato. We enjoyed measuring, scooping,...
On Friday, Year 3 thoroughly enjoyed making banana muffins as part of their Design Technology project. We started off by using scales and measuring jugs to measure out the ingredients before learning new skills such as whisking, folding, sieving and how to crack eggs....
This half term in DT, we have designed, built and evaluated our own birdhouses. We began by finding out about the different kinds of bird houses and the birds that live in them. Mrs Fraser challenged us to design and build a birdhouse for a blue tit, great tit or...
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...
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...