Blog by Tag: DT

We have been working hard in Y6 to get our shelters finished before half term.  We then tested that our finished constructions were waterproof, windproof, strong and could allow our family of 4 people to stand and lie down inside. We gained marks out of ten for each test to reveal an overall…

Year 4 have been busy in Design and Technology lessons this half term, designing and making model houses with outdoor lights. They have used their science knowledge to create and understand the circuits they used. They also created a pressure sensor in the doormats, which meant the lights would…

We used great skills to make the bread: sifting, stirring and kneading the dough. It was tasty!

We investigated lots of different types of bread after reading The Little Red Hen. We discussed where the ingredients came from.

This morning, Year 4 cooked their own Welsh Rarebit as part of their Design and Technology topic. They chopped the bread into festive shapes, grated the cheese, mixed the ingredients and spread it onto their bread. After a few minutes under the grill, it was ready for tasting. Yum!
 

Year 6 have been working hard all week, to produce items to sell at the Christmas Fair today. Each group was given an “investment” of £15 by Scot4all, with which to buy resources and every group made a profit from the sale of their various Christmas-themed products. We had to use a huge variety of…

This week we have been looking at toys, We 5en used our creative skills to make our own toys. We had a think about what toy we would like to make and what materials we would need to be able to make these. Then we used lots of different skills to make them. 

Scotforth Pizza was open for business this afternoon! We designed and created fun, healthy pizzas. 
 

What an exciting day we have had in Year 3! We have been investigating pneumatics and planning our moving toys and today was the day when we got very busy making (and very busy making a mess in the classroom!). We all had to work really hard and show lots of perseverance as things didn’t always go…

In DT, we are learning about the power of air (pneumatics). Soon we will be designing and making our own moving toy so we were investigating how best to create movement. We tried using syringes, tubing and balloons. There were different methods and now we need to think about the best method for…

Our new topic in DT is pneumatics (air power). We made paper rockets and propelled them forwards by blowing (really hard!) today. We have a competition to see whose was the most aerodynamic and effective!

This afternoon, we were investigating axels for our new DT topic on vehicles. The children were given some materials and had to work out how to make a moving vehicle. It was tricky but we managed to make some good ones. We will use this knowledge to design and make our own vehicles later this…