Design and Technology

DT – Preparing Soup

Class 5 enjoyed preparing vegetable and tomato soup this afternoon.

All About Me!

All About Me!
Our nursery children have been celebrating everything that makes them special. We shared stories and conversations about ourselves—our faces, favourite things, and what makes each of us unique.

Using natural treasures from our garden walk that we found, we created fantastic faces using leaves, twigs, and stones from the garden to create beautiful self-portraits. Inspired by Billy and the Big New School, they explored different facial expressions and how our feelings can show on our faces by sticking and gluing different facial expressions on to portraits pictures.

To finish our “all about me” adventure, everyone designed a delicious pancake face using breakfast items and fresh fruit—smiles you could eat! What a wonderful way to learn about who we are while being creative, curious, and proud of ourselves.

DT – Skills

The children demonstrated excellent skills this afternoon as they used different cutting techniques on a range of fruit and vegetables.

DT – soup research

Matthew helped us with our research this morning by showing us how he prepares soup!

DT – soup research

The class tasted different soups this afternoon as part of their research. Tomato soup was popular!

DT: Making jam sandwiches

Reception had a wonderful time becoming little chefs! The children worked to create their own set of simple, clear instructions for making jam sandwiches. They carefully followed each step, learning how to use knives safely to spread the jam and butter. Everyone showed fantastic listening skills and concentration, and of course, the best part was enjoying the delicious sandwiches they made themselves!

DT – design and make

A fantastic start to our DT make session this afternoon, after designing some wonderful fairground rides!

DT – mechanisms

The children enjoyed researching different mechanisms this afternoon and tried to use working gears! Super research to begin our topic!

D.T – Making our fruit salads.

Today in D.T we made our fruit salads. The children enjoyed chopping and cutting the fruit and picking what fruit they would like to add into their fruit salads.

D.T – practising chopping fruit

Today in D.T we practised chopping, peeling and grating fruit.

D.T – tasting fruit

In D.T we are learning about fruit salads. Today we tasted different fruits to see what fruits we liked and disliked. The children rated the fruit out of 10.

DT – final design

In DT we made our final design with our puppets. The children had lots of fun making them.

Photography

DT Photography

Class 2 had a fantastic time using our photography skills to capture both the Anglican and Metropolitan Cathedral. We came back to school cropped and put filters on our chosen photos.

Researching birds

We also had the opportunity to go outside and do some bird watching to further our project research— what types of birds do we see around school that might use our birdhouses or bird feeders?

Researching structures

As part of our D.T. research we have explored two different structure building techniques, one using cardboard and the other using wooden toothpicks. We will decide which one works best for our projects.

Puppets

In D.T we are looking at puppets. Today we looked at puppets in the classroom and talked about what we liked and disliked about them. We then started to practice our sewing skills.

Cardboard attachments

In D.T. we have been practicing making cardboard attachments as they will come in useful for building structures later on in our new topic.

DT – making slippers

After design and practising skills, the class began making their slippers using their templates.

More sewing skills

We decided to spend the afternoon practising our sewing skills before making our slippers!

DT – Slippers design

The children designed their slippers in their books today before cutting out their templates which will be stitched together.

DT – sewing skills

The class practised different stitches this afternoon, the running stitch, overstitch and blanket stitch. There were some wonderful examples made using binka material.

Textiles – Research

The children were able to label the features of different types of footwear before looking at different slipper designs! A great start to our DT topic!

Nighlights

Class 6 have been using crumbles to create night lights. We looked at how we can program a crumble to display different coloured lights, children then researched different styles of night lights and create their own design on the net of a 3D shape . Using a crumble kit, children were able to code the crumble to use different coloured lights to get their nightlight to light up!  

Making our own sandwiches

In D.T we made sandwiches using different types of fillings.

Bread tasting

Today in class we tried four different types of bread.

Making and tasting soup

The children became mini chefs this afternoon, preparing and making soup!

DT- Make

Today we made our own pizza using healthy ingredients.

Making Salads

We showcased our chopping, cutting and grating skills when making our salads. We used our planning to select ingredients to make our delicious salads and we cannot wait to taste them!

Chopping veg!

In preparation for our soup making, class 5 have been practicing cutting vegetables.🥒🥦🍅

DT Cooking

We have loved tasting vegetables and pasta salads to give us some ideas for our own designs.

Researching soup

The children enjoyed a soup tasting session as part of their DT research. They gave their opinion on flavour, appearance and texture.

DT- Research

Today we tasted different pizzas and discussed what we liked and what we disliked about them.

Sewing

We continued to practice the running stitch and also practiced the running back stitch.

Structures

We began to add struts to our structures to create a raised platform. We remembered that triangles are stronger than squares so tried to incorporate them were possible.

Sewing

For DT we practiced threading needles and looking at different types of stitches.

Structures

We used what we learned last week about sturdy structures to create the base for our flood proof houses.

Bags

For DT we looked at a selection of bags inside and outside looking at the fabrics and the functions of each bag. We discussed why we liked or disliked each bag.

Structures

we had such a fantastic time at Formby learning how to build secure structures both on and off the ground. Lots of great problem solving!

DT – Chairs

The children made the finishing touches to their chairs this afternoon – there were some wonderful designs and plenty of hard work too!

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We enjoyed making our own fruit salads. We followed the instructions we made and carefully chopped up the fruit. We took our fruit salads home to enjoy.

DT project

We have been building our own fairgrounds using pulleys applying our knowledge from Science.

DT – making chairs

The class started making their chairs this afternoon, using cardboard, tape and lots of hard work!

DT Trip

We went to Formby to learn about levers, pulleys and gears. We had a fun day and we learnt very interesting facts.

DT – developing skills

The class used a variety of ‘attachment techniques’ this afternoon, practising the skills required to construct their chairs!!

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We enjoyed tasting different fruits in class. We discussed the fruits we liked and disliked.

DT – Chairs

After researching different types of chair and their features, the children tried constructing their own using Lego sets!

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In DT we enjoyed making our monsters.

Making mechanisms

In DT class 3 made mechanisms using paper and pins. We looked at different movements. We have enjoyed making mechanisms very much!

DT

In DT we practised the running stitch using a needle and thread. We had to carefully sew around the edge of the fabric. We are looking forward to making our puppet. ?

DT – skills in action!

The children worked hard again this afternoon, using a hacksaw to cut dowels to the correct length – these would act as axles on their vehicles!

Working on our vehicles – DT

As the class began to assemble their vehicles, the children displayed great sawing skills as they cut their axles!

DT – making our designs

The children worked diligently as they began using their designs to make their vehicles for our wheels and axles topic!!

DT skills in the classroom

The children worked well this afternoon to assemble their wheels and axles onto their vehicle body, even trying them out on the classroom floor!

Wheels and axles

The class began their DT topic this half term by researching wheels and axles, using Lego to make vehicles!! There were some wonderful examples!

Friday in Reception

We had a very busy day on Friday, we had a lovely morning in PE with Mr Lancaster, then we made our own sandwiches for snack they were so yummy!

DT

We worked in small groups to find suitable pieces of wood – our task, to move a big log, sometimes with added weight on it!