Design Technology

Aboriginal Art

Aboriginal Art

In Art we have been learning about an aboriginal artist called Emily Kame Kngwarreye and her famous abstract paintings. We then looked at boomerangs and how aboriginal people used them to hunt animals. We can even name all the parts of a boomerang! We enjoyed...

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Lights Alive!

Lights Alive!

During our DT this term the children have been creating a light box. They had to create a circuit including LEDs and resisitors. It was very tricky. They learned how to strip the wires and join them  to create a circuit with the LEDs and resistors. Attaching the wires...

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Making beanstalks

Making beanstalks

After listening to the story Jasper's Beanstalk, the children in Nursery used a range of resources to create our own beanstalk. First, we used pipe cleaners, twisting them around and attaching them to each other to make a giant beanstalk. Adults modelled new...

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What is happening?

What is happening?

In the week where the weather brought us sun and rain we used mathematical vocabulary when investigating ”what does half mean”?

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What a busy week!

What a busy week!

Planting seeds, car washing, super writing and making our own volcanoes are just some of the jobs we have been doing this week.  

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Forest School

Forest School

What a lovely afternoon we had at Forest School, the sun was shining and so were we. The children in Nursery joined in with all the fun activities, including practising our balancing, walking  along the obstacle course then trying to make our own using the logs and...

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Lighting up with a Raspberry-Pi

Lighting up with a Raspberry-Pi

Today the children applied all their electricity knowledge and put it to good use on a Raspberry Pi. The children used LEDs, resistors, and jump leads to create a complete circuit. They did have to understand how a breadboard worked so they could connect the...

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