Just like the title of our book, we really did have the best Diwali ever!
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Category : Design & Technology
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For our year 6 end of English unit, the children dressed up (after writing a letter of persuasion to Mrs Marson) and took part in some fun activities relating to the Day of the Dead. They especially enjoyed making Pan de Meurtos, I hope they taste as good as the look! Everyone looked great!
This week, the children in F2 had a wonderful time bringing our story Goldilocks and the Three Bears to life through a fun and tasty activity!
We all got hands-on, carefully decorating our own bear paw biscuits. The ingredients we used were icing, chocolate chips and chocolate buttons to make our creations look just right! The classroom was full of smiles, creativity, and a little bit of mess (just how we like it!).
Of course, the best part was tasting our delicious bear paw biscuits at the end. What a yummy way to link our current story.
This afternoon in HUB1 we made our very own fairground chocolate apples, in celebration of Hull Fair week!
The children loved chocolate tasting and watching what happens to the chocolate when it heats in the microwave. We loved stirring the chocolate and exploring it’s texture once it had melted! The children had a go at independently dunking their apples and dipping in sprinkles to create the perfect yummy chocolate apples!
This was a great opportunity for engaging in a sensory activity, listening to the sounds of the microwave and sprinkles and smelling the scrumptious chocolate! It was also a great opportunity for language development and turn-taking, sharing and helping others!
We can’t wait to take them home tonight to have a go at tasting our delicious apples!
Mrs Porteous’ class welcomed their parents and carers into school to take part in some STEM challenges. We looked at teamwork, communication, logical thinking and reasoning and scientific and mathematical knowledge. We also had lots of fun!
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.
Our new children have joined in with their first experience of baking at school.
It was great fun!
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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!
Today was the final step of our autumn term DT project – electronic board games. Children spent the day applying the circuit building skills they have been practising along with their final design plans to great an ancient Egyptian themed operation game. Well done children, your final products are fantastic!
Kristian went for a tomb raider approach where you have to remove the treasures from the Pharaoh’s tomb!
In Jame’s game, players have to remove a mummy’s organs and put them into canopic jars
Millie cleverly included the Egyptian god Anubis in her game. Dare you steal the precious jewellery?
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.
