Healthy Wraps in Year 2

This week in DT Year 2 were set the mission to design their own ‘healthy wrap’.  We began by having a food tasting session and deciding which combinations worked best together. We then had to ensure we had chosen foods from all the food groups using the wrap as our carbohydrate.  Finally we made and […]

Food groups in Year 2

In Year 2 we have been researching food groups and what makes a healthy balanced diet.

Windmills in Year 1

In DT we had to design a windmill for a mouse to live in from the song ‘A Windmill in Old Amsterdam’. The children were given templates and had to think of what would appeal to a mouse – CHEESE! They then assembled their structures making a cylinder base. Following on from that we then […]

Sewing the Greek Alphabet in Year 5

As part of our topic on the Ancient Greeks we took some time looking at the Greek alphabet. We then designed our own bunting in which we took one letter each from the alphabet and cut some material to create a flag. We drew and cut the shape of the letters and then we tried […]

Roman Catapults in Year 3

This week in Year 3 we have been exceptionally busy working on our Roman Catapult Design Technology project. We haven’t finished our final catapults yet but here are some pictures of our independently made prototypes. We hope you like them as much as we do! We can’t wait to finish our final pieces. 

Spaghetti Towers in Year 2

This week the children took part in a team building challenge to test team work, resilience and communication. The children were tasked with trying to create the tallest tower that they could possibly make, using only spaghetti and marshmallows. We discussed the shapes that could help with structure and how we could add more spaghetti […]

Red Week in Nursery

Our Nursery children are settling in very well and everyone is really enjoying exploring all of the lovely activities. This week we have focused on the colour red and we have been busy making red collages, finding red objects and playing with red playdough.  The children have also enjoyed listening to the story of Little […]

Tudor Costume Designs in Year 6

Year 6 have really enjoyed designing and creating costumes influenced by the Tudor era.  They used patterns to cut material and mastered different sewing techniques.

Healthy Snacks in Year 3

In year 3 this half term, we are completing our second D&T project. The aim is to create a healthy snack complete with appropriate packaging.  Previously, we have considered why it is so important to use recyclable materials for our snack package. This week we were investigating how we will create our packaging. Our job […]

Forest School in Year 1

The children in Year 1 have had great fun drilling and hammering at Forest School today.  We are making a year group picture of a butterfly by hammering in nails.  We then used hand drills to drill holes and then wove wool through them.