D&T Chatter
Exploring Nets – Year 4 DT
We’ve been exploring nets of 3D shapes ready to make our desk tidy.
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Y2 Design Technology
We researched puppets and designed our own on the first day of DT week.
Year One – DT KAPLA
Wonderful creations from Year One whilst exploring the KAPLA resource. Look at the amazing chairs and train tracks that have been created.
DT – Year 4
Today we’ve been painting our desk tidies. We created them yesterday using nets for 3D shapes.
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Fun with Kapla in 5H
5H have enjoyed building and designing creations using KAPLA blocks. There were some wonderful structures!
KAPLA
Year 3 enjoyed working together to build a selected structure with the KAPLA resources.
Year 6 DT Week- Making Pizza
6B enjoyed researching different types of pizzas, focusing on the nutritional values and of course the taste!
5H Designing Buzzer Game
5H have designed their hand steady buzzer game, which they will be making tomorrow.
YEAR 4 DT WEEK
This week, we have been exploring structures in preparation for designing our own desk tidy. Today, we painted our final design. 4D created some very impressive structures.
Year 6 – DT week
This week we have had great fun comparing, designing and making pizza.
DT Week
Year 3 throughly enjoyed tasting different foods in Design and Technology this week 🥬🌽🧄🧀🍗🍖 We then made a healthy salad 😋
Year 6 DT- Making pizza
6B planned and created their own pizzas, using skills such as kneading, chopping and mixing.
Design and Technology
Beginning to put our designs together.
Can you guess what we are making?
Kapla Blocks !
This week for DT Week, we used the Kapla Blocks to build the fire station which we had visited. 🚒
5M Design and Technology
We had great fun designing these steady hand games and are looking forward to trying out each other’s to help evaluate them.
We love that we got to create an electrical circuit to test them out!
DT week
2S made puppets in DT week, first we tested out puppets as part of our research phase
Have a fun Easter Break!
5M had a lovely afternoon after working so hard all morning 🥳🤩
Rice crispy cakes!
This week we have been learning all about Easter. We had lots of fun and we made our own rice crispy cakes to take home. 🧁
Y2 DT Week- wheels and axles
Year 2 have been exploring wheeled toys and how their wheels and axles work, they have also been explaining what makes a good wheeled toy vehicle.
Year 4 DT
In Year 4, we are designing and making a picnic for our reception friends. Today we asked them a range of questions to find out what they like and dislike. We then went back to class to design them a perfect picnic.
Design Technology – Year One
Good research skills displayed in class today. Good discussion work all about the difference between fruit and vegetables. We now know which fruit grows on trees, bushes and vines.
DT Week 🍓🥝🥭🍍
This week is DT week! Reception have explored preparing food and tasting different fruits. We have practiced our cutting and knife skills.
Design a picnic for our Reception friends
Today we made our picnic. We followed our plan from the other day. We used a range of skills: speak, cut, grate, garnish and mix. We thought about appearance, texture and taste.
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Preparing and tasting fruit 🍓
This week for DT week we prepared and tasted lots of different fruits. We focused on the importance of being safe when chopping the fruit. We had lots of fun! We tasted Kiwi, Mango, pineapple and strawberries, they were delicious.
After we tasted our fruit we filled in our Evaluation sheets with our favourite fruits 🍇
Y2 DT Week- wheels and axles
DT week in Y2 has been so much fun! We have researched and designed vehicles to collect rubbish on the beach- we have painted, used a saw and attached our axles and wheels to our vehicles using different methods to make our vehicles.
CREATING PICNIC
This week in DT, we have researched, planned and made a picnic for our reception classes.
4D really enjoyed putting together their picnic plates, thinking about appearance, texture and taste.
DT Week 🪚🖌️✂️
For DT week, reception designed and made their own cars! 🚘 We used scissors, card, tape and oil pastels to create our cars!
DT Week
We have been exploring materials this week in understanding the world. We use blocks and foam to create houses that were stable!
Year 5 D&T week
This week in D&T, Year 5 designed and made a kite!
Testing them was great fun!
Y2 Science
Congratulations to the amazing members of 2D who have earned certificates as part of the “If you were an engineer what would you do?” engineering project.
Y2 DT Week… our finished products!
We have worked so hard during DT week to create our own vehicles with moving axles and wheels.
DT Week
Last week was DT week, we were tasked with making an eco friendly wheeled toy. We looked at real toys as part of our research.
Year 2 DT
After designing the cars we then got to create our toy. We painted and added design elements to make it stand out.
DT Week
Last week for DT Week we used our scissor skills to make our own cars. We spoke about different ways we could make our car for it to go faster and slower.
Summer 1 fun!
5H have had so much fun learning this half term! There’s been DT week, well-being and sports day! We also celebrated the Science week engineering projects, who won certificates. Well done for all your hard work! Have a lovely half term. See you on the 3rd June for the final half term of the year!!
Tiny Tasters !
This week was our first session with Tiny Tasters. Our reception families had lots of fun during the session. They spoke all about healthy eating, focusing on the correct and safe way to prepare their food. The children got to prepare and make their own wrap, which they even got to eat! Thank you Tiny Tasters we look forward to next week. 🥗
Making wraps!
Yesterday, we made our own wraps at snack time! We named smelt the ingredients first, and talked about whether we had already tried them before. We had the chance to taste each ingredient before deciding whether we would like them on our wrap. And then the fun part…we had to make our wrap! It was trickier than we expected 😉
Making lemon cheesecake pie!
In big cook little cook, we made delicious lemon cheesecake pie! Mrs Sefton made us close our eyes so we could use our sense of smell to guess which fruit we would be using! Nice try Mrs Sefton, you couldn’t trick us! 🍋
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Working together – continued
More creative designs to fit the bridge challenge brief, in Year 6 and more Success!
KAPLA
Today, 3M had a wonderful time working on the KAPLA project. We built towers that were joined together to make a castle.
Kapla Day
5H enjoyed adding to the amazing Kapla structure in the hall yesterday. We created the train on the bridge.
Making cheese scones
We carefully measured and weighed out the ingredients and made our own scone. We had to wait a while for them to cook and cool, before enjoying our scone for our snack!
Pumpkin soup 🎃
The children have really enjoyed learning more about autumn and Halloween 🎃 👻 This week, we have read the story Pumpkin Soup, and then made our very own! We helped Mrs Sefton hollow out the pumpkin, and then she carefully carved a spooky face into it. We then weighed and chopped the potatoes and pumpkin and Mrs Sefton cooked it before blending it into a delicious soup 😋
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Diya Lamps 🪔
For Divali, the festival of light, we made our own diya lamps! We had lots of fun decorating them with bright colours like red, gold, blue, and green. We used paint, glitter, and stickers to make them look beautiful. Our lamps looked so shiny and colourful when they were finished. We learned that diya lamps are used to bring light and happiness during Divali. It was a fun and special activity in Reception!
Stay and Learn – DT week/maths
Thank you to all our families that were able to attend our stay and learn today! The children always enjoy welcoming you into our classroom. Our stay and learn today was all about DT week – the children had to think really carefully about the resources available to them and design and build a trap for the gingerbread man! We had to think about the sizes of the boxes, and choose things that were the right size for our model – some things were too big, some things were too small. We talked about the materials we could use to connect them – wet glue, glue sticks, cello tape, strong wide brown tape, masking tape or even string! Lots of opportunities for discussion and new vocabulary. Thanks again to all our families – we can’t wait to invite you in again soon!
DT Week
This week is DT Week! Reception are focusing on our local area. Today, we looked at Runcorn Bridge, we spoke about what a bridge is for and what they look like. Using foam blocks and shaving foam we created our very own bridges!
DT ~ Can you create a circuit to light up the bulb?
This afternoon we made simple circuits. We then looked at which materials could work as a switch.
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