--- title: "Design and Technology in Y6" url: "https://st-bridgets-pri.cumbria.sch.uk/blog/2022-03-01-16-00-00-design-and-technology-in-y6" school: "St Bridget's Catholic Primary School" --- # Design and Technology in Y6 ![Image of Design and Technology in Y6](https://files.schudio.com/st-bridget-s-catholic-primary-school/images/blog/CBFE4003-A1AC-4D4D-91EB-8A622F9F24F9.jpeg) 1 March 2022 [Year 6](https://st-bridgets-pri.cumbria.sch.uk/blog/category/year-6) Y6’s Design and Technology topic this term asked the question: How string is a piece of spaghetti? The children refined their engineering and design skills by experimenting with ways to make the strongest type of structures to hold a selection of weights. They discovered that strong bases and foundations and triangular and square-based pyramids distributed the weight evenly and helped to make the structure more secure. 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