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Bridge Building!
Yesterday afternoon F2 had a wonderful ‘stay and play’ session themed around building bridges!
To finish our story of ‘The Three Billy Goat’s Gruff’ we decided it would be nice to invite our families in to help us make our very own bridge for the Billy Goats to cross! We made and designed some fantastic models and showed great team-work, determination, perseverance and hard work!
Thank you to everyone who came in for our session, we hope you enjoyed it as much as us!
A fabulous morning designing and building bug houses in our STEM room. Lots of chatter, concentration and teamwork!
A lovely afternoon spent in the F2 garden planting tomato plants, sowing wildflowers seeds and building bug houses! We have kindly been donated lots of tomato plants and the children could not wait to plant these in our quiet sensory garden. We are helping each day by making sure the plants are watered and free of any pests or weeds! We have also created a ‘wildflower patch’ and are hoping to see this grow over the Summer months. This will hopefully encourage lots of bees and butterflies to our garden and we can’t wait to spot the different insects that might come! In preparation for the many insects we hope to spot we have all had a turn this week at building up our bug hotel! This was lots of fun nature hunting for different materials to pack in our bug house and we hope we have made it welcoming to our little insect friends!
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.
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!
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.
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).
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.
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!
