This week Year 1 have been discovering how vehicles move. We made our own vehicles using various equipment. Each vehicle needed an axle and wheels. We found out that the wheels need to be opposite each other so the vehicle is balanced, otherwise it will...
In Oak Class this term, we have been learning how to spread with a knife. We have enjoyed spreading margarine, jame, cheese spread and tomato puree on bread, toast and crackers. We have made and eaten sandwiches, toast and puff pastry pin wheels. This week we...
This week in DT, the children have continued to make their teddy bears. They have begun to sew the pieces of felt together using a running stitch. In English, the children have been exploring a wide range of fiction and non-fiction books and discussing the main...
This week Year 2 have been looking at different ways of joining materials during Design Technology. We tried joining materials with glue, staples, pinning and sewing. Then we discussed which way would be the most suitable for making our teddy bears. During PE we have been...
This week in Year 1, the children have started making their own finger puppets! First they completed the design criteria, deciding what their puppet was going to look like, how they were going to make it and what materials they would need. Next, we cut our...
This week in Year 1, as part of our DT topic we have been looking at Puppets. The children looked at the different ways a puppet can be controlled by a Puppeteer. They had a go at using the puppets themselves and picked which one they...
This week in DT, Year 2 have been designing a playground structure. We had to think about who our structure was for and then draw a design of how we wanted it to look. We thought about what materials we would use, how we could...
This week in Nursery we asked “Who will help me bake some bread?” Just like The Little Red Hen did in our story. The children all answered “I will” and we worked together as a team to bake some bread. We weighed and mixed the...
As part of our topic, 'Towers, Tunnels and Turrets', Reception have been designing and building castles. We learnt about the features of a castle and their purpose, and used junk modelling materials to bring our designs to life! ...
[gallery ess_grid_gal="homepage" ids="15498,15499,15500,15501,15502,15503,15504,15505,15506,15507,15508,15509,15510,15511,15512"] This week the children in Year 1 have been making lots of discoveries! During the DT lesson, they looked at different fruits and vegetables and found on the packets where the country of origin was written. They then found these counties on an...