This week in Reception, the children have really enjoyed making Gingerbread people. We read the recipe together and took turns to mix the ingredients. We then rolled and cut out Gingerbread people. We have been encouraging the children to talk about how they made the...
In Design Technology this term we have investigated cuddly toys, looking at how they are joined and the details that have been added. We then designed our own cuddly toy for Sunny, the character from our class text ‘Meerkat Mail’ thinking about how it would...
Our nursery rhyme this week is ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.’ We enjoyed singing and learning the rhyme, as well as completing lots of different activities, such as making stars and going on a star hunt. We also took this opportunity to do our first cooking...
In our Design Technology lessons, we thoroughly enjoyed taste testing a range of chocolate. We described the appearance, explored the texture and finally savoured the taste of dark, milk and white chocolate before investigating other ingredients that were options for when we create our own...
For our final exit point in Year 2, we held a DT exhibition to show off the vehicles we created for Traction Man. We shared our learning journey from exploring different kinds of cars, to experimenting with axles and axle holders, to learning how to...
This week we have started to make our wheeled vehicles for Traction Man. We have been following our designs to create an interesting product. We have used small cereal boxes as our base, added different 3D shapes or features and then coloured them to make...
This week, the children have made great progress in developing their mechanical toys using cams. They created a prototype before interviewing children from Year 1 to research what toy design would be most effective. The children then created a cross sectional diagram of their design...
In the Meadow this week, we have practised the skill of combining ingredients in our cooking session and made biscuits with dinosaur foot prints. Children enjoyed filling the footprints with coloured icing, but eating them was their absolute favourite part. [gallery ids="20605,20606,20607"]...
This week in Nursery, we read the book, ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’. We discovered that in the book the troll was underneath a bridge. We looked at different bridges and discussed what a bridge was used for. Then we made bridges using different resources;...
Year 5 learnt how to build a structure using cutting tools and a glue gun. Working as a team, they created their structure ready to house the moving element they designed. The children built a prototype of their mechanical toy using gears and evaluated their...