Year 1 (Class 4) - Design Technology - Moving Pictures

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The children used the skills they learned in their design and technology lessons to make their own moving picture in order to retell part of a story.

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Year 5 (Class 14) - Design Technology - Moving Toys

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Class 14 have finished their moving toys.

They work really well and the children have enjoyed making them.

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Year 6 (Class 17) - Design Technology - Moving Toys

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Class 17 have worked really hard on their moving toys this half term.

They have learnt how different shaped cams can change the movement of their toy.

They planned and made their toys independently and showed great resilience and problem solving skills to iron out any small problems they…

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Year 6 (Class 16) - Design Technology - Cams, Cogs & Levers

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Class 16 have been looking at cams, cogs and levers.

With this knowledge, we built small rotating toys that showed the principles of them.

When they were finished, year 2, class 5, came to play with them give a review.

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Year 5 (Class 13) - Design Technology - Finished Cam Toys

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Class 13 designed their own toys using cams and then the year 1 class came and tested the toys out. 

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Year 4 (Class 12) - Design Technology - Light Boxes

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Today in class 12 we have been cutting and sticking our frames for our light boxes.

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Year 5 (Class 13) - Another Mechanical Toy!

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Hamzah in class 13 has designed a helicopter style cam toy at home- well done!

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Year 5 (Class 13) - Amazing Homework!

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Hamah in class 13 has built a mechanical toy at home!

Take a look, its awesome!

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Year 6 (Class 16) - DT - Moving Flag

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Class 16 had a go at creating a moving flag this week in DT, ready for next week, where they design their own moving toy.

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Year 6 (Class 17) - Design Technology - Cams

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Class 17 have been working hard at understanding how cams work. 

We built a basic toy together to test out our different cams and how they make the toy move.

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Year 5 (Class 13) - Design Technology - Cam Toys

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Children in class 13 have tested out their cam toys and evaluated the movements. 

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Year 5 (Class 14) - Design Technology - Cams

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We have been investigating cams and seeing how they can move axels in different ways.

Hopefully, we will be able to use this different movement when we design and build our own moving toys.

Well done class 14. 

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