Tag: Design Technology
SITE- Musical Instruments
Class four have created these super musical instruments. Once we had made them, we enjoyed playing them and discussed how we could alter their pitch and volume.
Our class band sounded very interesting!
Posted by Miss Duckett on 10 November 2021
Category: Class of 2017
Tags: Music Design Technology
Class 6's Exit Day
Class 6 had a fabulous time creating their electrical quiz game. They used their amazing scientific knowledge of circuits as well as their fantastic art skills to create an engaging game showcasing Year 6 content from Autumn 1.
Posted by Harriet Beaumont on 5 November 2021
Category: Class of 2015
Tags: Class 6 Science Design Technology Art
Class One’s UK Day
Class One had a fantastic day learning about the four countries of the United Kingdom. We wrote factfiles, decorated biscuits with flags, did Irish dancing and sampled treats from all four countries. The children worked hard and had a great time.
Posted by Mrs Barrett on 22 October 2021
Category: Class of 2020
Tags: Class 1 Design Technology Geography
Spaghetti & Marshmallow Towers
What a fun afternoon!
Class 5 were set the STEM challenge of attempting to build the tallest spaghetti & marshmallow tower.
We discussed real life examples of tall buildings across the world and discussed the similarities between these to get some ideas for our own towers.
The children…
Posted by Miss Cammiss on 12 July 2021
Category: Class of 2015
Tags: Class 5 Design Technology
Moving Parts!
To finish off our science topic of animals including humans the children designed and made moving parts models of a human. Their models had to include some of the information they had learned over the past few weeks, together with a range of moving parts. The class used previous DT learning about…
Posted by Mrs Barrett on 20 April 2021
Category: Class of 2019
Tags: Class 1 Science Design Technology
Class 2 Flight Day
Class 2 have had a fantastic flight day, arriving as a wonderful collection of pilots, astronauts, birds and many other flying things they quickly set about their challenges for the day!
In the morning, they had to complete a history of transport hunt and find the missing information from their…
Posted by Mrs Pelc on 1 April 2021
Category: Class of 2018
Tags: Class 2 Maths Design Technology History
Animal Cam Toys
Year 4 produced these fantastic animal themed moving cam toys for their SITE project this half term.
We learnt that a cam mechanism is made up of three components: a cam, slider and follower and that this mechanism causes components to move.
The children picked an animal and habitat they…
Posted by Miss Duckett on 31 March 2021
Category: Class of 2016
Tags: Design Technology
SITE Puppet Designs
Over this half term we have been exploring properties of materials, we are going to use this knowledge to help us to make puppets. Here are some of our designs.
Posted by Mrs Pelc on 10 February 2021
Category: Class of 2018
Tags: Class 2 Design Technology
Australia Day
Class 2 have been learning about Australia this half term and they have had lots of fun celebrating Australia Day today. They learnt about why the day is celebrated, the history behind it and used their maths skills to calculate how long ago the very first Australia Day was celebrated. Then, they…
Posted by Mrs Pelc on 26 January 2021
Category: Class of 2018
Tags: Class 2 Maths Design Technology Art History Geography
SITE Exit Day
Class Three had a fabulous time building their Stone Age shelters using natural resources. Although it was rather wet and windy, the children were extremely enthusiastic and worked incredibly well as a team.
Posted by Harriet Beaumont on 16 December 2020
Category: Class of 2017
Tags: Science Design Technology
Christmas Crafts
Class 5 really enjoyed completing their Christmas craft sent from Wetherby High School.
The class were tasked with building and decorating a model Christmas tree. There was lots of glitter and sparkle involved.... and most importantly, lots of fun too!
Posted by Miss Cammiss on 11 December 2020
Category: Class of 2015
Tags: Class 5 Design Technology
Parachutes
Today, we completed our SITE project, which was to make a working parachute using all of our knowledge about forces.
The children worked in small groups to plan and carefully select their resources before then making and testing their parachutes. We tested them by launching them out of the…
Posted by Miss Cammiss on 8 December 2020
Category: Class of 2015
Tags: Class 5 Science Design Technology