Curriculum Impact Tag: Design & Technology

The children used a range of skills like slicing, chopping, grating and creating ribbons to create a colourful vegetable and pasta layered salad.

What’s better than one gingerbread house? How about, thirty?

Today, the children in Year 6 brought in their very own gingerbread house kits. After reading through the instructions, they worked in groups to construct and then decorate their kits. 

Year 1 Design Technology

We have been looking at structures and identifying different types of building blocks. We talked about how the size of a base affects the stability of a tower and how tall it can be built. W e looked at the picture of The Leaning Tower of Pisa and how it was built on…

We have been exploring road safety and ways to make ourselves more visible when we are outside.

In groups, we selected a design based on a brief provided and then used fluorescent and reflective materials to build our designs.

After creating our designs, we evaluated them against the brief…

The children began their Christmas cake making adventure this week.  They experienced the smells of nutmeg, cinnamon, mixed dried fruit, orange peel, lemon peel, coffee, mixed spice and more. They used listening skills to follow instructions, teamwork and turn-taking skills and mathematical skills…

Year 5 have been exploring the issue of road safety.

The children discussed,  ‘How can we keep ourselves safe on the roads?’

We looked at the work of Emily Brooke and her invention, ‘Blaze - The Ultimate Light.’

We then designed posters explaining how the products keep cyclists…

Y2 are learning how to over stitch to make a felt house with a window and door.

This week the children created Danish open sandwiches.

Working in pairs, they carefully tasted and selected the ingredients to use for their own sandwich.

We then evaluated our sandwiches for taste and what we would change.

Luca 5A, ‘I really enjoyed the taste of the cucumber and cheese…

This week’s menu:

Starter:  Leaf Soup

Main:  Autumn Omelette

Dessert: Spider crispy cakes

Turn-taking, playing, mixing, stirring, speaking, listening, measuring, counting, experimenting = LEARNING!

As part of our Communication and Language work, we have been reading the book Home by Carson Ellis.  The children have been building different homes within the nursery provision.  They have produced some fantastic creations.  

Design Technology - Can Street Food Save Us?

Yesterday, the children made their very own healthy burritos. As part of our unit on researching and creating traditional street food from around the world, the children thought about the nutritional benefits of the various ingredients used. We…

James from Active Sefton visited Year 2 today. He talked about the importance of healthy eating and we watched him make a smoothie, which we were then able to taste. It contained a variety of delicious