Category : Design & Technology

Year 3 have completed our Design and Technology unit this week. We have had great fun creating an iron age tunic for our teddy bears.

Investigation

We begun our D&T by investigating about patterns and how these are made. We looked at different clothes designers and discussed how all of their designs differ from each other.

Focused Practical

We used two pieces of material to create a pocket. We had to sue different stitches, one of these was easier than the other. We practised using a running stitch, we found this one was the easier of the two. We then practised using an overstitch, lots of u found this one hard.

 

 

 

 

 

Once we had practised our sewing skills we thought about the patterns we needed to create to help us. We had to take measurements of our teddy bear to ensure our pattern was the correct size before we could create our pattern with paper.

 

 

 

 

 

Make

In order to make our tunics we pinned our pattern to some hessian before carefully cutting around it. We then decided which stitches to use to join our tunic together. Most of us chose a running stitch as we found this one easier to do.

It took lots of patience and we had to be careful when we sewed our tunic together.

Evaluate

When our tunics were finished we put the on our teddy bears. Some were a little tight and some of us had to cut the front to get them on so we created jackets.

We completed an evaluation of our finished tunic and thought about the things we did well and things we would change if we made a tunic again.

In our DT unit, Year 6 have been learning about chocolate, from bean to bar. Our final piece was to design and make their very own chocolate truffles! The children chose their own chocolate, flavourings and toppings to cook their truffles. They did amazingly!

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 are ready to do lots more cutting when we make our soups now.

Our final stage of our DT learning journey: making bread.

Today the children made their ‘bread in a bag’ by working through a range of instructions. They then moulded their mixture to fit with their final designs, added their desired toppings, and ended up with delicious bread that is fit for an Anglo-Saxon and Viking feast!

The pod smelt good enough to eat!

In our DT unit, year 5 are investigating, designing and making bread that is fit for an Anglo-Saxon feast.

In today’s lesson, the children watched a demonstration of how bread is made. Miss Mead showed the children the step-by-step process that must be followed to create delicious bread!

The children were extremely enthusiastic and loved to help.