Design Technology
A green smoothie for the princess (without peas!)
This morning, in english, we have used many skills to create a green smoothie for the princess in our story. Lily-Rose May does not like peas, but her dad is trying to find different green fruit and vegetables which she does like. To help him, we made a green smoothie...
Castles
The children have shown a keen interest in castles this week. There has been a lot of construction work going on and the children have made castles using a range of media and materials including junk modelling and building blocks. Some children decided they needed...
Smoothie making (following a recipe)
In this morning's english lesson, we have started to learn about recipes. We had to follow each step in a recipe carefully to make our own smoothies. We had to measure the berries, yoghurt and orange juice, wash the berries, chop the fruit and blend the fruit. We...
Slicing fruit.
As part of our DT lesson this afternoon, we were learning how to sensibly and safely slice different fruits. We then drew the inside of each fruit. This was a vital step in thinking about designing our own fruit kebabs next week.
Dreamcatchers (linked to the Invisible String story)
This week, we have been reading the story of 'The Invisible String' and we have been thinking about the people who we are connected to by our invisible strings. As part of our learning around this story, we spent this afternoon making intricate dream catchers using...
Our finished sewings.
This afternoon, in our life skills lesson, we have been bringing all of our sewing skills together. Some of us have made stuffed animals and others have made a puppet. We then presented our puppets to the rest of our class.