Year 2 (Class 7) - Design Technology - Designing & Making Fire Engines

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Class 7 have designed and made fire engines in design technology. 

The children joined the wheels and axils to the chassis, before creating the fire engines body. 

They then made hoses, ladders and sirens to make their engines complete. 

They did a fantastic job working independently,…

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Year 3 (Class 9) - Design Technology - Making Feojoada

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Today we made our Feojoada. 

We used all the cutting skills we had learnt and put all our chosen vegetables in the pressure cooker. 

We can’t wait to taste it tomorrow!

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Year 4 (Class 11) - Design Technology - Cutting Techniques

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Class 11 have started practicing their cutting skills ready for making our Feijoada next week. 

We used the bridge and claw technique to cut potatoes and carrots into bite sized chunks. 

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Year 5 (Class 15) - Design Technology - Truss Bridges

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Class 15 have built truss bridges today. 

They worked really well as table groups to build their bridges which we then tested for weight along with road worthiness. 

Well done class 15.

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Year 6 (Class 15) - Design Technology - Truss Bridges

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Class 15 have built truss bridges today. 

They worked really well as table groups to build their bridges which we then tested for weight along with road worthiness. 

Well done class 15.

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Year 4 (Class 12) - Design Technology - Cutting Techniques

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Today we have been practicing our cutting techniques. 

We have used the bridge and the claw to cut up potatoes. 

I think a lot of our children would like to help chop at home.

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Year 3 (Class 9) - Design Technology - Chopping Skills

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Year 3 have been practising chopping skills in DT. 

We used the bridge and claw method to chop potatoes. 

We also learned about food hygiene and how to stay safe around food in the kitchen. 

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Year 6 (Class 17) - Design Technology - Straws & Structure

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This week in DT class 17 learnt how to join art straws together to make a strong structure.

We also made a truss bridge in table teams.

The results were excellent the children worked well as team and produced some wonderful bridges that took at least 500g of weight.

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Year 6 (Class 16) - Design Technology - Bridges

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Class 16 have enjoyed working on joining art straws in preparation for making a truss bridge.  

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Year 3 (Class 9) - Design Technology - Jamie Oliver

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Year 3 have been learning more about the famous chef Jamie Oliver, linked to our cooking topic in design technology. 

We completed a research sheet and found out about how he made school dinners healthier, which will be leading to us cooking a healthy Brazilian dish in the coming…

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Year 6 (Class 15) - Design Technology - Bridges

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Class 15 have learnt how to join straws together to make a strong join ready to make a truss bridge next week.

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Year 5 (Class 15) - Design Technology - Bridges

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Class 15 have learnt how to join straws together to make a strong join ready to make a truss bridge next week.

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