Catapults
Year 5 had great fun on Wednesday and Thursday with their DT project. They worked in groups to plan a design for a catapult, thinking carefully about how they were going to join their materials. The children then spent Thursday afternoon constructing their designs. There was lots of great…
Outdoor DT in Year Two.
During Outdoor Week, Year Two have been studying the art work of Andy Goldsworthy. We will be using our designs to create a structural piece of art work that we will need to shape and join together. We observed our outdoor environment and made sketches to support our ideas.
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Making Roly-Poly Birds!
This week Year 3 have been improving our DT skills. Initially in the week lots of children struggled to use scissors to be able to cut accurately. We made Roly-Poly birds from ‘The Twits’ story to practise and get better at cutting accurately. We used PVA glue and tearing of tissue paper to put…
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D.T Challenge
After researching sustainable energy and how the charity Practical Action help the people of Peru, we designed our own wind turbine. The criteria was to design and make a wind turbine that would create enough energy to lift a weight. The pupils worked in teams and had lots of iterative ideas…
Orienteering Competition!
On Monday we held this year’s Orienteering Competition!
All the children competed well and worked hard as a team. The Champions this year were Sacred Heart Primary School. Congratulations to them!
Outdoor Learning Week
What a great start to this years outdoor weeks! The weather has not been as kind to us this year but the classes have still enjoyed some outdoor learning. Please remember to bring your outdoor kits next week too for more fun.
Let's go Fly a Kite.
Silver Birch Class had a very busy morning today. They were given a DT project to design and make their own kite in teams.
The children could decide from a Diamond or Delta shaped kite to make.
First the children designed their kites then they had the opporunity to start making their…
Year 1 Tuesday Trek
We began our 'Outdoor Weeks' with a Tuesday Trek. It was a little too muddy to go onto the field so we trekked along the path and around the playground.
Trekking Tuesday
It was great to see the children and staff outside in the sunshine today. They all joined in with Trekking Tuesday, and walked around the field or the playground.
I managed a few laps of the playground too, as I didn't have my wellies!
All children need suitable footwear for the outdoor…
North, South, East and West.
Today the children were working outside using the 8 points of a compass. They had to identify North, South, East and West using a compass.
Then they went on to focus on North West, North East, South East and South West.
Then the children had to look around their surroundings to see what…
Times Table Rock Stars
Well done to all these children in year 4 who completed theTimes Table Rock Star challenges this week.
Keep up the good work.
Making Shapes Using Natural Materials
We have been learning all about 2D shapes and we went outside and used natural materials to make 2D shapes.