Year 2 - DT - Wraps 18th Jul 2024
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Today we made and ate our wraps. We enjoyed our time in the park!

Year 2 - Textiles - Our finished pouches 12th Jul 2024
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We completed our pouches by planning and decorating our pouches.

Year 5 - DT - Cooking day! 7th Jul 2024
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The school was filled with wonderful cooking aromas on our DT day. We adapted a spaghetti bolognaise recipe and produced some rather tasty dishes!

Year 2 - DT - Sewing 5th Jul 2024
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We have been designing and making our own pouches. We cut out a template, pinned it to some felt, cut it out and now we have sewn the two pieces together with a running stitch.

Year 2 - DT - Taste testing and skill developing 27th Jun 2024
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Today we practised our cutting and grating skills. We then tasted our ingredients to see which combinations we liked best. Some of us tried some foods for the first time and liked them!

Year 3 - Computing - DT - Digital World - Wearable Technology 25th Jun 2024
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Year 3 have been learning all about wearable technology. We coded the MicroBit devices to light up so people could be seen walking down the road in the dark. We then thought about how we could sell this product and designed point of sale signs to promote our wearable devices.

Year 1 - Design & Technology - Structures - Windmills 17th Jun 2024
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We have been learning all about windmills in DT. We talked about our local windmill, Bocking Windmill and learned a bit about its history. We then started to learn some new words, such as rotor, sails and base. We designed our own windmills and learned that to make a structure more stable, it needs to have a wide base. We also learned that if you add weight to the base, it also makes it more stable. We can't wait to make our sails next!

Year 2 - DT - Textiles 7th Jun 2024
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We have started our textiles project by learning how to thread a needle, tie a knot and then use a running stitch

Year 1 - Design & Technology - Cooking & Nutrition - Making Fruit Salad! 16th May 2024
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We used our recipe designs to make our fruit salads. We learned about food hygiene, which colour board we should use to cut fruit on and how to cut safely using a knife and fork.

Year 1 - Design & Technology - Cooking & Nutrition - Tasting, Design Brief & Recipe Design 15th May 2024
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We thought carefully about our design brief and looked at existing products to see if that could help our ideas. We then tasted a range of fruits and decided which we thought would work best in our fruit salad recipe. Everyone was amazing and tried lots of new things!

Year 1 - Design & Technology - Cooking & Nutrition - Trip To Tesco! 14th May 2024
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We were extremely excited to walk to Tesco to buy all the ingredients we needed for our fruit salad! Everyone behaved really well and we saw so many amazing things on our walk - including a fish shaped puddle! The workers at Tesco were very kind and gave us some free fruit to eat!

Year 1 - Design & Technology / Science - Cooking & Nutrition - Fruit or Non-Fruit? 1st May 2024
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To begin our unit of learning, the children learned that edible parts of plants are called vegetables. We learned that if the edible part has a seed, it is also a fruit. We used this new learning to look at different edible plants and decided if they were fruits or non-fruits. We then looked at where on the plant vegetables and fruits grow. We deduced that fruits always grow above ground. This also linked nicely with our learning in science about parts of plants. We loved thinking that we could eat every part of different plants!

Reception - Design Technology - Structures - Boats 17th Apr 2024
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The children have been learning about 'boats'. We first had to experiment with different materials which we could use to make a boat, then we had to test to see if they were water proof and whether these materials would float or sink, then we looked at the structure and designs of boats before designing and making our own boats.

Year 2 - DT - Baby Bear's chair 22nd Mar 2024
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We completed our project of making Baby Bear's chair. It was challenging but we had lots of fun.

Year 5 - Design Technology - Building Bridges 22nd Mar 2024
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In our Spring term DT unit we investigated different types of bridges - as part of this we built simple beam bridges, spaghetti truss bridges and eventually a class wooden truss bridge. We learned and put into practice new DT skills and used imaginative units of measurement to test our bridges!

Year 2 - DT - testing stability 15th Mar 2024
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We are designing and making a chair for baby bear. Today we tested to see how to make structures stable, strong and stiff.

Year 1 - Design & Technology - Puppets - Templates & Cutting Fabric 8th Mar 2024
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We learned that a template is a paper version of our design. We cut our template out as carefully as we could and then tried to attach this to our fabric using a safety pin. We drew around our template and then cut our design out. We showed lots of resilience and great teamworkin our learning today!

Y4 - Design Technology - Learning how to cross-stitch. 7th Mar 2024
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Year 2 - DT - Testing stability 29th Feb 2024
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Today we tested to see which shapes would be the most stable. We made the shapes out of plasticine and then let them fall down a firm surface and measured what height it took them to fall.

Year 1 - Design & Technology - Puppets - Skills Lesson & Testing 29th Feb 2024
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We are using textiles to design and make puppets in DT! We learned that there are different ways to join two pieces of fabric together. For this unit, we can choose between using glue or staples. We had a practice using paper and then scraps of fabric. We will use these to make our final design choices for our puppets.

Year 6 DT Doodlers 8th Feb 2024
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Year 3 - DT - Vegetable tarts 25th Jan 2024
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Year 3 have designed, prepared, cooked and evaluated their own puff pastry tarts. We chose the ingredients we wanted to use and had to think carefully about the presentation of them. We then evaluated our tarts. Here are our finished products!

Year 5 - Design & Technology - To design and create a unique Christmas decoration 19th Dec 2023
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As these should have arrived home by now, they are no longer a surprise! However, I would like to add how very proud I am of each Year 5 student, this was a challenging task, and they have all persevered! Super well done!!

Y4 - Design Technology - Our finished cars. 19th Dec 2023
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Year 1 - Design & Technology - Moving Pictures - Final Independent Projects 14th Dec 2023
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The children used all they had learned over the past few weeks to design and make their own moving picture Christmas card!

Reception - Design and Technology- Cookery- Making Gingerbread men 8th Dec 2023
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The children have been learning about the story of 'The Gingerbread man' and wanted to make their own.

Year 1 - Design & Technology - Moving Pictures - Making 1st Dec 2023
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We used our designs to make our moving picture storybooks! We thought carefully about where we needed to make our holes and cut our slits. We had a great time and worked so sensibly and independently. When it went a little wrong, we didn't panic, we thought how we could fix it! Sellotape was our friend!

Y4 - Design Technology - Adding the axles and wheels to the chassis. 24th Nov 2023
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Year 2 - DT - designing monsters 23rd Nov 2023
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We have started designing our monsters! Which one do you like the best?

Year 1 - Design & Technology - Moving Pictures - Prototypes 17th Nov 2023
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Today, we thought about how we can create up/down and side to side movements in our moving pictures. We learnt about the different slits we need to cut in our backgrounds and had a go by building and testing out some prototypes! We had such fun and we learned so much ready to make our storybooks next time!

Y4 - Design Technology - Working on axles and wheels to the chassis. 17th Nov 2023
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Year 2 - Design & Technology - Moving Monsters - Linkages 16th Nov 2023
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Year 2 have started exploring linkages ready for making their very own moving monsters!

Y4 - Design Technology - Making a chassis for a slingshot car. 10th Nov 2023
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Year 1 - Design & Technology - Moving Pictures - Skills Lesson 10th Nov 2023
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Year 1 were very excited to learn about what DT was. We are going to be designing and making a moving picture book. In order to do this successfully, we needed to practise some skills. We practised making holes in paper using a pencil and an eraser. We then tried to cut a straight line between 2 of our holes. We did a great job!

Reception - Design Technology - Making Bread 6th Nov 2023
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The children have been learning about the story of 'The Little Red Hen' so we decided to make some bread. Mrs Fannon brought in her grinder to grind the wheat into flour and then we used the bread maker machine to make our bread. The children also had a go at making some dough.

Reception - Design Technology - Cutting station 1st Nov 2023
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The children have been using scissors to cut various materials to practise holding their scissors correctly and develop their fine motor skills

Reception - Design Technology - Junk Modelling 16th Oct 2023
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The children were learning how to cut, fold and join to create their own model.

Pirate Pouches 7th Jul 2023
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We have used our new found textile skills to sew and create our pouches for all that gold we have gathered from our pirate voyages!

Textiles 14th Jun 2023
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We have started our topic on textiles. We can use a running stitch!

Designing a healthy wrap 23rd Mar 2023
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As part of our DT topic we have tasted and designed our own healthy wrap