Moving Christmas Cards
This week we have completed our DT by creating a moving card!
Design and Technology
Fruit Salads
Our DT topic this half term was to make our own fruit salad. We had a variety of fruits to choose from. We learnt the different chopping techniques.
Pneumatic toys
Class 3 have had a fantastic start to the school year and have been busy learning all about pneumatics. The challenge was to make a pneumatic toy! We explored pneumatics using syringes and balloons and then utilised this knowledge in our own designs. The children learnt about thumbnail sketches and exploded diagrams. We followed our exploded diagram designs when making our final product. I think you will agree they have done an amazing job!
Our New Mobile Kitchen arrives!
Thanks to all twelve children who took part in the ‘Swimathon’ at Kendal Leisure Centre earlier this year, we have a new mobile cooking station that has just arrived in school. As part of our Celebration Assembly on Friday morning, the children were given the honour of unwrapping our special delivery.
The group raised over £1500 collectively to purchase this fantastic resource for curriculum food technology, but it will first be put to good use by the twelve swimmers to make cakes and cookies for our summer fair later this term.
Amazing Art work!
Our Geography topic was looking at and finding out about the UKs 4 countries and their capital cities. We then decided for our art that we would create a landmark of London.
Can you guess what they are?
Car Creations!
Class Three have put their creative talents to good use once again! Our DT topic this term is slingshot cars. We started the topic by creating a chassis, next we looked at a variety of vehicles and learnt about air resistance. We used our new knowledge to design our car bodies and then constructed these by making side panels and the roof. Our design brief included making the vehicles aesthetically pleasing, reduce air resistance and be quick! I think you will agree that they all look fantastic.
We had great fun trying them out!
Brilliant Baking!
This week Class Three have been very busy learning how to make biscuits for our Design and Technology topic. The topic began with a taste test, testing biscuits already available to buy. We then learnt how to follow a recipe to make a basic biscuit, learning techniques such as creaming and the importance of sieving. Another taste test was completed! Following this we adapted the recipe and each child make their own biscuit. Again, a taste test was conducted and the results were used to design a final recipe suitable for adults at Christmas. This was out target audience. The children then made their final dough adding their chosen ingredients and designed and made their own packaging for this, considering the best materials to use to be environmentally friendly. A huge than you to Mrs Mason for helping us and passing on her baking expertise.
Healthy Wraps!
Today we have been making our own healthy wraps that included a source of protein, carbohydrate, dairy product and vegetable!
Busy Builders!
Over the past few weeks in class 2 we have had different challenges and chance to explore our construction area. We have had a wide range of things being built from multi story car parks to Levens Hall and its gardens! Here are some pictures of our creations.
Perfect Pavilions
This week Class Three have been working hard learning all about pavilions. We have learnt some new words such as aesthetics, stable and cladding. We looked at examples of pavilions from around the world, experimented with making structures with cocktails sticks before designing our own pavilion. We then made our amazing models!
