Design Technology
Christmassy Christingles
To learn more about the meaning of Christmas, all of Key Stage Two made their own Christingles.
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!
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...
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...
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....
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...