Curriculum Impact Tag: Design & Technology

Our home school diary task this week was to talk about bonfire night and what we did to celebrate.  We then thought about the fireworks we saw in the sky and created our own firework pictures. First we selected different colours and mixed them together, we then used a sponge to print the paint on…

Understanding the World, Personal, Social & Emotional Development, Physical Development

This week the children made vegetable soup to eat as part of their snack. They used their cutting, chopping and peeling skills to prepare the different vegetables. We talked about where vegetables grow and…

Following on from our vegetable shop role play we used some of our vegetables to make a special “English Martyrs Soup”. The children peeled and chopped. We discussed the shapes and textures of the vegetables. This afternoon we enjoyed eating our soup in the woodland area. We heard words such as…

We saw fantastic creativity and imagination in our sensory play this week.  Children were focused and engaged well with the experiences provided.  Cognitively, sensory play stimulates neural pathways in the brain through exploring different textures, materials and smells.  

As part of our forest skills activities the chidlren have been making badges.  This week we decorated our name badges and added wool to hang them around our necks.  

Over the past few weeks the children have been really interested in pumpkins.  They have brought pumpkins in to use in our learning, and told us about visits to pumpkin patches.  We have used pumpkins in our maths counting and comparing activities, created and investigated pumpkin potions, shared…

The Year 2 Lego club have been very busy this half term, creating and building each Tuesday after school.  Super work!

Year 4 have been very busy cooking this half term! We talked about healthy alternatives to foods containing lots of preservatives in our supermarkets. We made a simple pizza with a flour and yoghurt based dough, slow cooker tomato soup and fresh bread rolls! 
the children loved the experience of…

In DT, the children enjoyed making flatbreads.

They worked in small groups to mix their ingredients together and used rolling pins to shape their flatbreads.

The children made hedgehog bread rolls in nursery today.  They used skills of mixing, kneading, rolling and cutting.  They observed the dough rising and baking.  Nursery smelt amazing!  We hope our families enjoy the bread.  

This is what technology looks like in Early Years - how things work. Today the children loved using a hand drill to make holes in our wood slices.  Thank you to Mr Seddon (Mrs Seddon’s husband) for preparing all these logs for us.  One child told another member of staff, “We used a real-life hand…

The children worked in table groups to do a range of fine motor skills activities. The focus activity was sewing a felt door onto a felt house wall.