Prototype chairs - Year 6
Our focus on Design Technology continues this term and the Year 6 chair project progresses well. This week, the pupils have been making prototypes of their chairs from paper straws, paper and masking tape. These models give the children an opportunity to test their designs, structures, and…
Mayan Day
Thank you to everyone in year 4 for participating so enthusiastically in our Mayan Day. The outfits were brilliant. We all enjoyed being explorers and discovering new things about the Maya. We learnt about a few of the many gods including the sun god and the maize god and why they were so…
DT - Year 3 weaving
The Year three topic this term is Ancient Egypt. Within Design Technology, pupils are designing and making necklaces (inspired by Ancient Egyptian art) for a summer ‘collection’ – Egyptian style is back in fashion after 5000 years!
This is a DT textiles unit, so the main feature on the…
DT - Year 1
This term we are focusing on Design Technology. Year one regularly practises motor skills within lessons with Mrs Cork and Mrs Andrews; in preparation for this project they have been practising using scissors and a hole punch.
Within their DT lessons they are getting into the Christmas spirit…
Chair Design - Strong shapes and WW2
Our focus this term is Design Technology. Our DT projects consist of four steps – explore, design, make and evaluate.
Year 6 are designing chairs (Action man sized) for John Lewis this term. To begin, the pupils explored strong shapes within structures. We looked at the work of architects and…
Papier mâché mountains
Design Technology – papier mâché
The fictional Professor Mont Blanc commissioned Year 3 to make her a teaching prop for her Geography lesson about mountains. She needed a model of a mountain which clearly showed its key features. It had to be big enough to be seen clearly by all pupils in the…
Chair design.
In DT, Year 6 have been designing chairs with the aim for them to be sold at John Lewis online.
Pupils were asked to design chairs appealing to one of the following customers:
- Student 18 -21 years old. A multi-purpose chair (it is their only chair in their one-room accommodation)
- A…
3SA make Egyptian necklaces
3SA made their Egyptian necklaces this week in DT with Mrs Amelia and Mrs Holdaway. The necklaces are inspired by Ancient Egypt and designed for a 'summer fashion collection.' They had to be appealing to their target customers; Egyptian themed; robust and functional; constructed to a high standard…
Egyptian style
In Design Technology (textiles) this term, Year 3 have become young fashion designers!
Ancient Egypt is back in fashion. Pupils have been commissioned to design and make necklaces inspired by Ancient Egypt for a summer fashion collection.
The commission specified that the necklace is…
Chair design
In Design Technology this term, Year 6 have been commissioned by a well know online department store to design a chair. Pupils have chosen their target customer and have considered the most important elements of a chair design. Both classes decided strength and being able to hold a person’s…
A sticky end to the week!
Today the year 4 children set to work investigating and exploring how to join materials together as part of this terms exciting DT project. And yes they did help to clear up too!
Thank you to everyone who has donated card, tubes, cups and pots, they will make fantastic Mayan Masks and we cant…
Bridge Bakes Bread
Everyone in Year 4 hopes that you were able to enjoy the bread that we made last week? Making bread was great fun and linked nicely with our Science topic of Changing Materials and also with our DT project of product design. We wonder if anyone will make bread over half term? Take care everyone…
