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...
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...
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,...
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...