Year 6T have spent this week in the kitchen cooking up a storm! They homemade a 3 course Mexican-inspired meal consisting of guacamole and nachos, veggie chilli con carne and chocolate cheese cake. Everything was delicious!!! The children then ate their meal together with their group to celebrate.
Category Archives: Design & Technology
Year 1S – DT – Cooking and Nutrition – Fruit Kebabs
Recently, we have been focusing on the story Handa’s Surprise in our English lessons. In the story, Handa wants to surprise her friend with lots of different fruit. We started to think about where different fruit comes from from around the world and how it is grown. The children then tinkered by tasting a variety of fruit to which helped them design their own fruit kebab. We then went to the kitchen to make our fruit kebabs and the children explored how to peel, chop, slice and create a kebab on a stick. After they had made it they got to enjoy eating it and they were even superstars and cleaned and tidied away everything they had used in the kitchen.
Well done Year 1!!
Year 1S – Design and Technology – Royal Crowns
Over the past few weeks in Design and Technolgy the children in Year 1 have been exploring, designing and making Royal Crowns. It was perfect timing for the Kings Coronation. We looked at the St Edwards crown that the King was given and many more crowns for inspiration. The children then designed their crowns after seeing what resources could be used. The children really enjoyed making their crowns and developed many skills from cutting, painting, fixing, decorating, shaping and finishing.
The children are very proud of their amazing crowns and now also get to be Kings and Queens!
1M DT
In DT, the children had a challenge to design and create a crown fit for King or Queen! The children enjoyed tinkering with lots of different materials to find out what would work best for their crown.
Here are a few of the children’s crowns.
The children loved wearing their crowns for the coronations celebrations!
Easter Egg Designs
Year 3 Stone Age Bread
War Memorials
In year 6, we have now completed our D&T unit and created our model war memorials. They are all fantastic and have been designed to commemorate a range of people (and animals) who sadly lost their lives in war. Any community would be extremely lucky to have any one of these memorials built! Well done year 6!
Tinkering!
It’s been a week of tinkering for year 6! We tinkered with materials that we could use to create our model war memorials in D&T (although most of us have decided to use clay). In computing, we used tinkercad to create our own maze!
Year 4 DT fruit filled cakes
In Year 4, we really like to get our teeth into our learning. Today we managed to include our taste buds too as the children baked, ate and evaluated their cakes. We had examples of lemon, plum, blueberry and blackberry cakes that the children had designed themselves and then baked that day. Tasty work!
Heaton Park War Memorial
In history, we learnt that Heaton Park was home to a training ground during WW1, and so in 2016 a war memorial was erected there to remember the sacrifices that our local heroes made. We recently visited Heaton Park as part of our D&T unit to gather inspiration from the memorial, as we are going to be designing and making our own model war memorials next week. We loved how the memorial was shaped to look like the sandbags in the trenches and how each individual tile represented a different individual or regiment.
