Y2 - Design and Technology
Year 2 have been exploring the component parts of a Ferris wheel.
Knowledge: to build and test a moving wheel.
Skills|: to make my wheel rotate; to make it stable.
Vocab: structure, stable, rotate
Pavilions - Cladding
Children in Year 4 have been exploring different types of cladding to decorate, strengthen and/or improve the appearance of their frame structures.
Building Structures
Children in Year 4 have been exploring different 3D structures as part of the design process.
We had lots of structures falling down!!
Year 5 Making a Bolognese sauce
Today, Year 5 created their own Bolognese sauce as part of our D&T lessons. Well done Year 5!
Y6 STEAM Festival
We journeyed out of school to the Ellesmere Port Boat Museum. We had lots of fun and lots of learning in our workshops today including:
- Magic of Chemistry
- Detective Science
- Road Markings
- Busy Bees
Well done all!
Year 5 STEAM Festival
Year 5 visited the National Waterways Museum to take part in a STEAM Festival. Pupils took part in several workshops including being crime scene detectives, building sprites for a game and then creating their own ideas for drones.
Brilliant work Year 5!
Y6 Playgrounds
Y6 were faced with a Design and Technology challenge: to design and make their very own playground!
They had to:
- Create five apparatus designs, applying the design criteria to their work.
- Make suitable changes to their work after peer evaluation.
- Make roughly three different…
Y6 Playground Project: Visit to Birkenhead Park
A super trip with the Year 6 children today. We went to Birkenhead Park - the blue-print for the world famous Central Park in New York City. We looked at all the features that make a great park. After half-term we will be using this as inspiration to design and make our very own playgrounds in…
Coding D T
In Design and Technology Year 3 have been using their coding skills to create a safety device that can be seen in the dark.