Design and Technology

Parent assembly and activities Year 3

We had a lovely morning with our Hands assembly and our DT craft activities. Thank you to all our adults who turned up to support us.

Sequencing

This week in Mathematics, the children in class RJP have been focusing on sequencing. We explored the vocabulary, how ‘sequencing’ means to repeat a pattern. The children used paint to create an ‘ABBA’ pattern firstly, following the pattern, ‘red, green, red, green’. We then had lots of fun demonstrating the ‘ababab’ pattern using Christmas pictures, and designing a colourful paper-chain. To extend the learning, we explored different patterns, expanding on the number of picture cards, colours, and using shapes which have been learned previously. This helps the children problem solve sequencing in a fun way.
Why not keep up this learning at home, by asking the children to make repeated patterns using different objects.

Mechanisms!!

We created moving mechanisms using pivots and levers in our DT lesson with different types of cards, we created holes to bring the mechanism together with a spilt pin and made it move.

5 currant buns in the bakers shop.

Remembrance Day 2024

11:00 11.11.2024

Huge respect in our class to recognise the soldiers that have fallen in the past. We did a minute silence in the morning and then created amazing poppy art work based on our art topic ‘painting with scissors’ in the afternoon.

Diwali lanterns

Today we are designing our Diwali lanterns for next week. We have learnt the story of Rama and Sita and thought about why Diwali is celebrated in Hindu religion. We are trying to focus on using Rangoli patterns.

Painting with scissors

We used Henri Matisse as our inspiration for our art topic. We used his method of painting with scissors to make our collages.

Year 5 Primary Engineer Award

Earlier in the year, year 5 took part in a project with Primary Engineer and built moving locomotives with an electrical circuit. Today we celebrated each child taking part, awarded awards for best group work and also two boys took home the ‘Best communicator’ award. Well done, year 5!

Cooking time again!

We had our second group to make our traditional Italian bolognese. They had a great time preparing the ingredient and seasoning it to perfection! Thanks to our amazing head chef once again – Monica.

Year 3 Volcano eruptions!

Volcanoes Eruptions!

We had an amazing afternoon erupting our volcanoes! We even had a very dangerous and violent composite volcano with thick magma which increased the pressure when erupting.

Year 4 enjoyed test testing ingredients for our Ramen recipe.

Eid Mubarak!

Happy Eid to all our families celebrating! We had a lovely day and week celebrating with all our children and adults.

Spaghetti Bolognese time!

Our first group created their very own authentic traditional bolognese sauce! We have linked our DT unit with our Geography topic of Italy. Super behaviour and sensible cooks.

Volcanoes!

We have created our volcanoes and painted them. They look amazing! We are going to erupt them this week and see what happens when an active volcano blows. Watch this space…

Primal Painting

Year 3 used the pigment from different foods and natural resources to paint and mark make.

Buzz Wire Games

Bell Beaker Pottery

Super work creating our Bronze Age Bell Beaker pots. We created a similar shape and added patterns to them.

We loved making smoothies in Year 1! We had so much fun!

DT – Making our chairs

We had lots of fun using different joining techniques to build our own chairs. Take a look at some of our fantastic structures

Great morning with our Everton project! We made our dough from scratch, cut up our own toppings and created wonderful pizzas!

Today we have baked cakes to help celebrate Maisie’s Birthday ?

Maisie Mouse in our story is having a birthday! ? ? ?

5EHD DT

We have been working hard on our rail engineering project. Over the past couple of weeks, we have created our own locomotives, complete with a frame, wheels, axels and an electrical circuit.

Check out our finished chairs!

We made chairs as part of our DT topic on stable structures.

Teamwork – we started to build our chairs

We worked so well in teams to start to build our chairs in DT

Building our prototypes!

Buzz Buzz

We’ve had a great afternoon making circuits with a light and a buzzer to help us when making our buzz wire game. We also got to have a go at a buzz wire game!

We had an amazing day on world book day! We focused on #Goldilocks and created our own poems and naughty hashtags.

Supertato’s House

This afternoon we created Supertato’s house using icing sugar and gingerbread. We mixed the icing sugar and water to use as glue to stick the house together.

We rounded off our ‘My Bnk’ sessions with talking about money habits and the importance of saving! We even made our very own money bank.

We explored how nets can be used to transform into 3D shapes. We practised cutting, folding and gluing tabs to be able to make shell structures.

We enjoyed making puppets with our families yesterday!

Great afternoon with our LJMU students and our sustainability project.

Tesco trip

To continue learning about chefs, we’re going to become chefs and make our own soup! To prepare for this, we went to Tesco to buy the ingredients we need.

A happy Diwali from 3TS! We made beautiful lanterns to represent the festival of light.

We loved making models of our homes!

We loved making models of our homes! #smithdowneyfs #smithdowndt