Y4 D&T ‘Make day’

By Mr S MORGAN12th March 2024

Wow! What a busy day we have had in Y4. Previously, children have investigated the features of different coin purses, practised various ways of stitching fabric together and have designed their own purse. Today they finally got to make the product. Children worked brilliantly throughout the day on their sewing pieces and it was great to see so much thought, care and attention going into their work – the end results were amazing. Well done Y4!

Super proud of their work: Scarlotte, Harvey, Lennie and Betsy. 

A wide range of fabrics and designs were used. 

Jacob focusing very hard on getting his stitches neat but secure. 

The blanket stitch was tricky, but children showed real determination! 

Investigate and focused practical task

By Olivia Mead7th December 2023

Year 5 have started their D&T unit for the Autumn term: designing and creating their own sandals. Over the past two lessons, the children have explored a range of sandals and analysed the design, material, purpose, audience and functionality. The children then began their focused practical task that involved tracing around their feet on card and cutting the templates out neatly and carefully. They then practiced some key skills that are going to be applied to the final piece, such as pinning, sewing and stitching straps onto their templates.

Year 5 Design and Technology – Pulleys

By Mr J SUTTON28th June 2023

In our new Design and Technology unit the children have been looking at creating a variety of pulley systems. They were introduced to fixed pulleys and tried to use the equipment to build a crate which could be moved by a fixed pulley (such as an elevator).

3D modelling

By Miss S STAINTON25th May 2023

Year 6 have loved exploring Tinkercad and developing their 3D modelling skills in our computing lessons this week. The children have already grasped how to use the workplane grid for sizing references and how to modify their shapes colours. We have also practised using the duplicate tool and are now even able to hollow out shapes! Great practise ready for when we use our 3D printer in a few weeks time within our DT project.

F2 ‘BIG BUILD’ Stay and Play!

By Jodie Buss18th May 2023

Thank you once again to everyone who attended our F2 ‘Stay and Play’ this week! We had a fantastic afternoon with our ‘BIG BUILD’ and the weather held out for us! It was a glorious afternoon and you all made some amazing creations! Our theme was bridge building following on from our story ‘The Three Billy Goat’s Gruff’ and we had lots of brilliant Humber Bridges created! We also painted bridges, made sandcastles, junk modelled and built using Duplo, stickle bricks, lego and big crates! Thank you again for a successful afternoon, as always the children loved it and loved showcasing our amazing classroom indoors and outdoors!

F1’s Coronation Day

By Mrs C SILVERWOOD5th May 2023

We have had such a wonderful day celebrating the King’s Coronation. We’ve learnt about the King, listened to the National Anthem, joined in the celebrations with red, white and blue cake and joined in with Coronation activities.

Some of us braved the rain and built a coach, with 4 horses, to carry King Charles to his palace. We hope it doesn’t rain as much tomorrow!

F1 make soup

By Mrs C SILVERWOOD26th April 2023

We’ve had an exciting time making and tasting soup today. It’s created a lot of chat and ideas.

First of all we explored the vegetables.  There were some that the children hadn’t seen before.

Isla-Grey thought the swede might be an avocado.  However, she knew that the second vegetable was a parsnip.  Well done Isla-Grey!

We then worked hard to chop the vegetables up.  Some of them were very hard.  We had to make sure that they were quite small.  The children had to find the big chunks that needed cutting smaller.

When the vegetables were ready we added some water and a stock cube.  Ivy N knew that we had to cook the vegetables to make them soft.

When they were cooked we blended them until the soup was smooth.

Well done to (nearly) all the children for tasting our homemade soup too! Some of them thought it was delicious!

 

iron age tunic

By Mrs K SMITH1st April 2023

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.

Design

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.