Blog by Tag: Design and Technology

The children in Lego and k’nex club are becoming more creative each week.  We’ve had so many different designs and the children have been working brilliantly together.  Today some of the children chose to make marble runs using the Lego baseboards.  

We have enjoyed learning about Lunar New Year and how it is celebrated.  We learned that it is now the Year of the Snake and find out about the celebrations that take place in Liverpool for Lunar New Year and how it is celebrated in countries such as China, using our globe to locate it.  Here we…

Year 1 Crudités 

Year 1 enjoyed chopping the different vegetables into strips and making a delicious dip. “It was so yummy. I liked it all.” 

Using a mixture of wooden blocks and natural resources, the children decided to make a fort today.  The children worked together and side by side to create their masterpiece. There was lots of discussion and negotiating taking place too.   We didn’t want to tidy it away at the end of the day!…

Our vegetable noodles were so good. We are making stuffed peppers next week.

This week we made pitta bread pizzas in nursery.  We took turns, talked about our ingredients which included, tomato purée, pitta bread, cheese and sweetcorn.  We really enjoyed eating them when they were ready.  George commented “I really really really liked the sauce and the sweetcorn too!”…

We had great fun making vegetable noodles with a lime and sweet soy dressing.

Year 1 Design & Technology 

The children have really enjoyed working as a team to make cardboard towers. We talked about towers that topple and lean. Which team could make the tallest tower? 

Year One - Design Technology Structures

This week we have been exploring how free standing structures need a strong wide base to stay stable.  The children used cardboard boxes to explore the best way of building their structure.

We have been using levers to create games. We were using fixed and loose pivots.

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.