Design Technology

Tudor houses

Tudor houses

This half term, we have been learning about the Great Fire of London in our History lessons. We learned that many houses were made of wood which led to the fire spreading so quickly. In Design Technology, we then researched the design, structure and materials that...

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Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Celebrations

Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Celebrations

The children in nursery have had a lovely week learning all about the Queen and celebrating the platinum jubilee. We have decorated crowns for our own parade, decorated flags and bunting for our classroom and made some delicious cakes for our Jubilee celebration with...

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Forest friends

Forest friends

Each week we love our forest sessions. We explore the principle of plan-do-review where we decide what we are going to do and write a list of equipment we need to help us to prepare for our session.

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Designing and creating our light up boxes

Designing and creating our light up boxes

The children are now fledged electronic engineers. They have loved designing and creating their light up boxes for DT. They made their own circuits using wires, resistors, LEDs and powered it all using a Raspberry Pi. Fantastic work from all.

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Moving Minibeasts

Moving Minibeasts

We have been learning how a moving picture is made and experimenting with making their own. We used a sliding mechanism and decided whether we wanted it to be a horizontal, vertical or diagonal lever.  

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Exploring a range of money containers

Exploring a range of money containers

As part of our Design Technology, we are going to be designing and making an Anglo Saxon purse. To get us started with some ideas, we had a look at a range of different money containers. We looked at the fastenings, the materials, how many pieces of material were used...

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