This week F1 have been busy making ‘bear’ biscuits, inspired by our Bear Hunt story.
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Category : Design & Technology
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After learning all about Shrove Tuesday we measured, sieved, cracked, pored, mixed, cooked, tossed, spread then tasted our delicious pancakes.
Mmmmmmm yum yum!!!!!!!!
On Wednesday, Year 5 visited an egineering company – OSL – where they took part in arange of activities linking to the subject. The activities included:
- Completing a circuit to sound a buzzer
- Using their knowledge of construction to put together a triangle using nuts and bolts
- Conduct an experiment to act against gravity – using plastic bottles, water and tubes
During these activities, the children learnt a substansive amount of knowledge about how to become an engineer and what the job role consists of.
Here are some images of the children during the day:
For the second half of the day, we then went to an architectural business – GGP. Here the children took part in an activity where they had to build their on bridge out of straws, which had to withstand a brick. We had so much fun!
F1 have been busy baking scones. They weren’t just any type of scone though, they were ‘crazy creature’ scones!
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Cheese and Chive Crazy Creature Scones
One of our children set herself a challenge to balance wooden blocks, on their ends, to create a tower. It was not an easy task. However, other children chose to join in with her. They all worked so hard, not giving up, even when their towers fell down. We have been thinking about not giving up during our Jigsaw sessions. This just shows how determined our children are, even at 3 years old. Well done to everyone involved!
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F1 had great fun baking gingerbread after reading the story together.
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This term, Year 2 have been looking at food in Design and Technology. Their brief was to create a healthy snack in the shape of a rocket.
Investigate
First of all, they investigated where food comes from. The realised that healthy food usually comes from a plant or an animal. They then sorted foods in to two groups.
Focussed Practical Task
The children practised the skills they would need. This involved slicing, grating, scooping and cutting.
Design
The children then designed their own Rocket Pitta.
Make
The children used their new skills of slicing, scooping, grating and cutting to make their rocket pitta pizzas.
Evaluate
The children evaluated their snacks based on their appearance, taste and similarity to their design.
Investigate
What is a freestanding structure? First Year 1 looked at a variety of freestanding structures. We discovered that is is a product that can stand by itself without attaching to anything else. We looked at products inside the classroom that were freestanding and then went to investigate the playground equipment outside.
Focused Practical task
In our next lesson we shared the design brief with the children. We then focused on the skills we would need to make our own freestanding structures (toy playground equipment). We practiced measuring, cutting, shaping and joining.
Design and Make
The children then carefully designed their freestanding structure and labelled the materials they would be using. Then it was finally time to make it! Here are some of the results…
Evaluate
Finally the children evaluated their product. They thought about what went well and what they would change next time. A lot of children changed their mind about the material they used. Well done Year 1!
Year 6 have been thinking about the 3P’s in their Design and Technology unit of work.
Design and make a Product for a Person with a Purpose
As technologists Y6 were challenged to design chocolate truffles that were to be a gift.
DT is not just about ‘making’. There are lots of steps that come before and after that !
Investigate – Learning about existing products
Focused Practical Task – Practising vital skills
Design – Designing a range of possible products
Make – Making the product
Evaluate – Looking back on what you did and considering what went well, what didn’t go so well and thinking about what you would have done differently
Our Learning Journey took us through each of these stages.
For two weeks the children were challenged to be chocolatiers.
Work in progress!!!
Now time to decorate !!!! Preparing the packaging!!!
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Nearly there!!!
What a professional looking finish !!!
This week in Design and Technology, we have designed, made and evaluated our own soups.
We thought about the design brief to make a healthy soup for a fisherman and decided which vegetables we would like in our soup. We thought about taste and texture after we had tried them and made our own recipes.
Once our recipes were finalised we started to prepare the vegetables for cooking. We used the claw and bridge hold we had used in our focused practical task ensuring we chopped our vegetables safely. We put our vegetables into a pan with the stock we had chosen in order to cook on the hob. We kept stirring our soup and ensured the heat was not too high for several hours until it was cooked and ready for liquidising.
Once our soup was ready we got to eat it!
The soup was lovely and lots of us wanted to make it at home.
Once we had eaten our soup we discussed if it had met our design brief.
We all agreed that the soups were hearty and filling and that they would be good for a fisherman.
Through our evaluation, some of us thought we could have added some different vegetables to add to the taste. Some of us thought we should practise our cutting skills more as some of us found the bridge hold a little tricky.
We enjoyed our soup!
