Tag: Design and Technology

Y6 have been learning about the importance of foods which make our bodies function well with the right balance of nutrients, flavours and textures. We discovered that we eat with our eyes and our food needs to look appetising as well taste good. A range of our skills were put into practice as we…

Y6 have been asking the question: does food affect the way you feel? They considered how the right sorts of carbohydrates can give you energy and improve performance as fuel for our bodies. Together they created a pasta sauce using onions, garlic and tomatoes with herbs then added pasta to it to…

Year 5 have had a great week completing Cyclewise. They have learnt lots of new skills to keep them safer when cycling on the roads. To enhance their safety further all the children designed and made a high visibility armband to wear when they are out on darker days. 
 

In Design and Technology Year 1 have been learning about food and nutrition. We have already made Rainbow Wraps and today we created Vegetable Kebabs. We used courgettes, red, yellow and green peppers, cherry tomatoes and mushrooms. We used all the cutting techniques to chop the vegetables safely.…

In Reception we were learning about how people celebrate Chinese New Year. The children made a moving dragon and we learnt that dragons are good luck and bring power and strength to people. The children used good scissor control to cut out the dragon and we used some joining techniques to make…

In Design and Technology Year 1 have been exploring ‘Structures’. They have built up their engineering knowledge about what is needed to make a structure sturdy and safe.  We researched famous buildings such as ‘The Leaning Tower of Pisa’ in Italy and looked at what created its famous lean and…

The children have been learning about the benefits of eggs in their design technology lesson. They also found out about what it means to be a free range hen. The children prepared the ingredients using the bridge and claw techniques. The quiches were enjoyed by most of the children. What a treat…

In design technology the Year 2 children have been thinking about what being healthy means. They learned about  the difference between processed and unprocessed foods and which is healthier for us. They also found out that fruit and vegetables provide us with nutrients to help us stay healthy. The…

What’s really in your food?

Year 4 are well on their way to being chefs now! Today they compared the ingredients of tinned and homemade soup then made their own tomato soup.

This afternoon Nursery have enjoyed baking and decorating some Christmas ginger biscuits. We put golden syrup, egg yolk, dairy free butter and some biscuit mix into a bowl and mixed it all together. They baked in the oven for 15 minutes.
Once ready, we let them cool down. We then decorated the…

In Reception we read the story of the Gingerbread man during our topic, 'Once upon a time'. The children retold the story, acted it out and we then made our own gingerbread man. These ones had no chance to run away though as the children had eaten them all up!

Y6 finished their learning about Street Foods from different cultures by making vegetable samosas. They used a range of important skills to perform this task including chopping, dicing, peeling and folding the delicate pastry into triangles with the vegetable filling tucked neatly inside. Everyone…