Click on the link below to see how we got on when we made vegetable soup in F1. It turned out to involve building a machine to harvest our own ‘vegetables’ too!
Making soup and building the harvester
Category : Design & Technology
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Year 5 had an incredible Viking WOW Day! We began by exploring the history of Viking shields, learning about their designs, patterns, and the meanings behind the colours they used. Using this knowledge, we created our very own shields.
We also looked at Viking runes. After discovering how the runic alphabet worked, we had a go at writing our names and even created secret messages for our friends to decode. It was amazing to see how Vikings communicated in such a unique way.
To finish off our busy day, we relaxed with some Viking word searches and even learned how to draw our very own Vikings.
What a week it has been for our wonderful F2 children! We have been working incredibly hard so to celebrate the end of a long and busy week we treated ourselves to something cosy and comforting… yummy toast!
With the rain pouring down outside, it felt like the perfect moment to enjoy a warm snack together. The children loved watching the toast slowly turn golden brown, keeping a careful eye on it as it popped up ready to be buttered. They did a brilliant job spreading the butter and jam with so much concentration and careful hands!
And of course, the best part of all… eating it! The toast was delicious and gave everyone a lovely boost of energy for a fun-filled morning of play.
This was just what we needed to finish our week on a high.
We baked the most delicious ginger biscuits today.
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Florence enjoyed baking so much, this afternoon she made her own in the role play room!
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We are really proud of everything that they have achieved.
As part of our Design and Technology unit in Year 3 this term, we are creating healthy soups that the fishermen could take on trips with them.
Before we can create our soups we have talked about healthy ingredients and what we could put in our soups. As part of the preparation to make soup we talked about how to cut the vegetables we are going to use.
We have practised our cutting skills this week in preparation for making our soup.
We all had the opportunity to practise both our claw and bridge grips to make sure we could cut our vegetables safely and securely.
We also had to decide which vegetables would be good for our soup. We discussed seasonality and which vegetables are available in the autumn season in England. We also tasted some vegetables so we could decide on which flavours we would like in our soup.
To create our soup we worked collaboratively to decide on a recipe including the vegetables we would use and the stock that would create the base of the soup.
When the soup was cooked we tasted and evaluated it to see if we had met the design brief and created a healthy soup for a fisherman.
Y6 Design and Technology: Truffle Making – Focused Practical
Year 6 are in the process of preparing to be chocolatiers this week to create a produce (truffles) with a purpose (a gift) for a person of their choosing.
This week we took part in a focused practical activity and observed the process of how to make the truffles using a simple recipe. With a little assistance and guidance from Miss Stewart, some children weighed, snapped, crumbled and added the necessary ingredients to create a batch of delicious truffles, which were shared and devoured before being evaluated.
Our next step is to be the chocolatier and independently create and design our own truffles so watch this space…
The children have concentrated so well whilst they have been ‘sewing’ their Christmas cards, ready to take home. It was the first time a lot of them had used a needle. They stayed focused on their task so well, we were very impressed. Jacob & Ewura even managed to re-thread their needle! Well done!
There was so much language to focus on, when we talked about pulling and pushing, and so many instructions to follow, as well as having to use their developing muscles in their hands and fingers.
In D&T this week, Year 5 have investigated sandals. We have looked at the materials used in sandals and their properties. We have also thought about design decisions that will have been made during the process of producing sandals: the materials used, the cost of production, the appearance, safety features, comfort, practicality, the user and their needs and wants etc…
Today, F1 have been painting owls. We’ve started off by painting the shapes we wanted, then filling them in with lots of paint…
Whilst the paint has been wet, we have then made ‘zig-zag’ marks onto the owl’s tummies so that it looked a bit feathery…
Finally, we added glue and feathery wings, a beak and it’s talons…
Once the owls are dry, we are going to add yellowy-orange eyes.
Our owl painting has also inspired a bit of flying, as well as tree building (so that the owls can build their nests). A great day in F1!
