Curriculum Impact Tag: Design & Technology

Year 1 Crudités 

Year 1 enjoyed chopping the different vegetables into strips and making a delicious dip. “It was so yummy. I liked it all.” 

Architects of the future here in Reception.  The boys spent most of the afternoon building this airport!

Using a mixture of wooden blocks and natural resources, the children decided to make a fort today.  The children worked together and side by side to create their masterpiece. There was lots of discussion and negotiating taking place too.   We didn’t want to tidy it away at the end of the day!…

This week we made pitta bread pizzas in nursery.  We took turns, talked about our ingredients which included, tomato purée, pitta bread, cheese and sweetcorn.  We really enjoyed eating them when they were ready.  George commented “I really really really liked the sauce and the sweetcorn too!”…

Year 1 Design & Technology 

The children have really enjoyed working as a team to make cardboard towers. We talked about towers that topple and lean. Which team could make the tallest tower? 

Today the children made their own pizzas to eat at snack time. They listened carefully and followed the instructions to make delicious pitta bread pizzas. We used our senses to feel, taste and smell the ingredients and focused on the words first, next, finally. 

Well done children!

Year One - Design Technology Structures

This week we have been exploring how free standing structures need a strong wide base to stay stable.  The children used cardboard boxes to explore the best way of building their structure.

Using our fine motor skills we are creating pictures today using Tap Tap Art.  We are very careful not to bang our fingers and are enjoying copying the pictures and creating our own! 

The children used a range of skills like slicing, chopping, grating and creating ribbons to create a colourful vegetable and pasta layered salad.

What’s better than one gingerbread house? How about, thirty?

Today, the children in Year 6 brought in their very own gingerbread house kits. After reading through the instructions, they worked in groups to construct and then decorate their kits. 

Year 1 Design Technology

We have been looking at structures and identifying different types of building blocks. We talked about how the size of a base affects the stability of a tower and how tall it can be built. W e looked at the picture of The Leaning Tower of Pisa and how it was built on…

We have been exploring road safety and ways to make ourselves more visible when we are outside.

In groups, we selected a design based on a brief provided and then used fluorescent and reflective materials to build our designs.

After creating our designs, we evaluated them against the brief…