Year 3 are at the investigation stage of their Design and Technology unit this week.

The design brief is ‘To design and make a seasonal soup for a trawler man’

We begun by discussing what healthy and unhealthy foods are. We can identify unhealthy food and discuss how we should only have these occasionally.

To help us think about our design brief we investigated different types of soups, We have looked at tinned, packet, carton and homemade vegetable soups. We have investigated to find out which soup contains the most salt and sugar as well as which ingredients are in each. We concluded that the homemade soup is the healthiest as it contains the least salt and sugar and has the most vegetables in it.

We have also discovered what seasonality is and the different foods that grow in our country in different seasons.

We found out that asparagus grows in May so we would not be able to get fresh asparagus in our country in winter but we could get fresh red cabbage in winter.