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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Year 5 (Class 14) - Design Technology - Simple Bridges

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Great work in class 14, researching and designing simple bridges. 

Really looking forward to seeing their work later in the project as they build bigger and bigger! 

Well done class 14. 

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Year 1 (Class 4) - Design Technology - Fruit Smoothies

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This half term in DT we are designing and making our own fruit smoothies.

We enjoyed sampling different smoothies and talking about our favourite smoothie.

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Year 1 (Class 4) - Design Technology - Chopping Fruit

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We have been practising our cutting skills in DT, by chopping different fruits.

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Year 6 (Class 17) - Design Technology - Types of Bridge

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Well done class 17. 

You produced excellent beam, arch and pillar bridges in DT. 

We even managed to create a double pillar bridge.

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Year 6 (Class 16) - DT - Types of Bridge

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In DT this week, class 16 had a go at making different types of bridges: arch, beam and pillar. 

They worked together to make bridges that they thought would be strong enough for toy cars to get across. 

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Year 1 (Class 3) - Design Technology - Fruit Smoothies

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In DT this half term we are going to be making fruit smoothies.

Before we thought about making our own fruit smoothies, we did some product research and tasted some smoothies from the super market.

We tried to guess what fruit we could taste in it and then we gave it a rating out of ten.

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Year 4 (Class 10) - Design Technology - Making Feijoada

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In DT, we will be making feijoada which is the national dish of Brazil. 

We discovered that the only compulsory ingredient in feijoada is beans so we conducted market research to find out which other ingredients people would like. 

We will use this information next week when we are learning…

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