Design Technology

Look at our Wheels!

Look at our Wheels!

We have been working hard in D.T to create moving vehicles. We used egg boxes for the chassis of our vehicle and wooden doweling for the axles. Some of us used cardboard wheels and some of us used wooden. Beep beep!

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Christmas Potions…

Christmas Potions…

This afternoon, we have designed and created our very own Christmas pot pourri jars. We wore aprons, gloves and goggles to make us feel like real scientists! We had to listen very carefully to instructions and add a certain amount of each ingredient to create the...

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Remembrance Day

Remembrance Day

After observing the two minutes silence on Sunday, Lewis went home and made a Cenotaph out of blocks and said “Mammy I’ve made this for the people that died in the wars”  In school, the children listened to The Poppy Story and watched 'Poppies' on CBBC. The children...

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Zoom, zoom zoom, we are going to the moon…

Zoom, zoom zoom, we are going to the moon…

After listening to the story 'Whatever Next',  the children worked together as a team and used a variety of resources to make rockets to go to the moon. The children used 2D and 3D shapes to design their own rockets, talking about the shapes they would need....

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Making Slippers in Year 5

Making Slippers in Year 5

As part of our DT work this term, we will be designing and making a pair of slippers.  We are very excited about this project and have started making patterns out of paper to plan out the size and style of slippers we will make.  It was quite tricky to get the...

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Harry makes 2,000 year old bread!

Harry makes 2,000 year old bread!

Year 3 were given a baking task in their Home Learning Packs last week and Harry certainly made the most of it! Harry and mam made Egyptian flatbread from a 2,000 year old recipe and served it with a very modern addition - nutella! I was told it was absolutely...

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Pyramids, pasta and bluetac – home learning made fun!

Pyramids, pasta and bluetac – home learning made fun!

Here are some photos one of our brilliant year 3 pupils wanted to share showing some of the home learning he’s done with his dad....recalling that he and his class learned about Eygpt earlier in the school year they decided to go off on a virtual tour of the pyramids...

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Y6 Pupil – baking and sculpting to keep busy

Y6 Pupil – baking and sculpting to keep busy

Here are some picture of one of our year 6 pupils having a go at making bread, it looks delicious!  Her Mum says that she kneaded the dough very well because she told her the dough hated books and reading!    She has also been enjoying her art work and has sculptured...

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Year 2 Pupil – buildings of the future?

Year 2 Pupil – buildings of the future?

Whilst discussing the topic about humans living under water one of our Y2 pupils decided that if he was under water he would built a house made of wood. To make wood he decided he would freeze some cardboard! He then did an experiment to see if it would work. Here are...

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