Blog by Tag: Design and Technology

The children were very excited after some of them experienced bonfires, fireworks and sparklers last night. Many of the children enjoyed creating firework pictures and the children were keen to make a giant rocket. We began the first painting stages this morning. To be continued next week…

In Maths this week the children have been practising counting up to 5 forwards and backwards. They created rockets and counted down for blast off!

The children have also made healthy rocket fruit kebabs for snack. The practised their cutting and chopping skills and created some fantastic and…

Today the children made firework rocket fruit kebabs.  We discussed preparing the area and ourselves for handling food.  The children had an opportunity to choose from a selection of fruits to chop, count and thread on to a skewer.  They then enjoyed eating the fruits for their daily snack.  

The children have enjoyed seeing all their friends again today after our half term break.  They have settled back in superbly and particularly impressed us with the way they remembered the sign of the cross and daily prayers.  Throughout the day they have been deeply engaged in many different…

Following on from our poetry work on minibeasts, the children are using resources indoors to make their own minbeast habitats.   They have worked together and were so proud of their creation.  They spent a considerable amount of time playing once it was built.  

After reading the story ‘Whatever Next’ by Jill Murphy, some of the children chose to explore and build a rocket with the wooden blocks.  They explored how to position the blocks in different ways using the language big, bigger, small, smaller.  

The children have been busy this morning building a bridge to our outdoor autumn cafe.  We saw some brilliant teamwork and problem solving.

Today we made delicious and cold fruit smoothies using different fruits, yoghurt and milk. They helped to keep us cool in this hot weather. 

The children made delicious roasted vegetable pasta sauce today using onions, courgettes, peppers, carrot and tomato.  We prepared and chopped the vegetables, coated them in oil and baked them in the oven.  We then blended them together and combined them with cooked pasta to create a delicious…

This week the children have been making a healthy vegetable pasta sauce. They have been chopping tomatoes, courgettes, peppers and carrots to make a delicious snack. After cooking our ingredients we used the blender to create a nice smooth sauce for our pasta.

Today we have read 'Supertato' by Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet which has the children very excited and wanting to be superheroes themselves. They are making their own superhero masks and thinking about what super powers they would like to have. During snack time the children were surprised to…

How strong is a piece of spaghetti?

For our latest DT topic, we started to investigate how strong a piece of spaghetti is. We worked in groups to build ‘bridges’ and investigated how to make the strongest bridge.