10 Dec

Y2 Finished Pizzas

Look at all of the delicious pizzas we made!

 

25 Nov

Pop up mechanisms- DT

InDT, Year 4 have been practising making pop up mechanisms using paper and card. This is in preparation for making a moving Christmas picture. We’ll show you some photos when they are finished.

13 Mar

Our Finished Hand Puppets

Look at our fabulous finished puppets!!!

12 Mar

Our finished shelters

This week we have finally finisged our shelters in DT. The brief was to create strong shelters to suit playmobile people, which were waterproof and well insulated. Following the testing of a number of materials, and investigating how to create strong structures, we decided on the materials and…

12 Feb

Making frames in DT

We have been investigating different types of shelters and materials. Linked to our topic about explorers and Shackelton's Antarctic expedition, we have planned our own shelters that would be suitable for cold, windy conditions. Today we practised making secure frames out of wood. We measured…

30 Nov

Enterprise week

Year 6 Enterprise Week has begun! Our teams have been assigned, our jobs have been agreed and we have begun to plan how we will use the £12 given to each team, in order to make the best profit we can at the Christmas Market next Friday. We have already started making some products. As the week…

11 Nov

Fashion design club

Fashion design club met after school today for the first time ever, thanks to Mrs. Couchman. If you are interested in joining, there are still places available. 

 

29 Oct

Year 6 STEM workshop

Can you fit 5 people through an A4 piece of paper? If you think the answer is no, then talk to some Year 6 children who now know better! This is because we were visited today by Dr Irene Wise from Lancaster University who talked to us about  STEM skills (Science, Technology, Engineering and…

16 Oct

investigating DT Shelters in Year 6

In Year 6 we are investigating how to make strong and effective shelters. Today we working in teams to see who could make the strongest structure using a limited amount of materials including card, straws, pipe cleaners, paper and sellotape. Natty, Rebecca and Phoebe's team was the winning one as…

30 Nov

Year 6 Christmas Products

Well done to Year 6 for all their hard work this week and the fantastic things they made for the Christmas Fair.  As you can see, the products looked great and, unsurprisingly, we sold out of everything! We'll find out next week which team made the biggest…

30 Nov

Enterprise Week

All week in Year 6 we have been busy preparing for the Scotforth Christmas Market. We have been working in teams and each team has had a budget of £15.  As you can see, we have been very productive but we could not have done it without all the help given to us by parents, friends and…

13 Jul

Making our Moving Toys

We having been making moving toys using cam mechanisms.  Look at all the different design ideas we have had.  We tried really hard to achieve a high quality finished product.  Do you think we did?