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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Year 3 (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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Year 4 (Class 12) - Design Technology - Feijoada Project

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This week class 12 have been conducting market research for their feijoada project finding out what ingredients our classmates like and dislike. 

We will use this information to decide what ingredients to include when we make our own feijoada. 

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Year 3 (Class 9) - Design Technology - Vegetables

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In DT, we conducted some market research into what vegetables we like eating. 

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Year 6 (Class 17) - Design Technology - Bridges

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Class 17 have stared their new topic on bridges.

Today we looked at the forces at play when building bridges and felt what compression and tension feel like.

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Year 6 (Class 16) - Design Technology - Bridges

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Class 16 have started their DT topic on bridges this week, we drew and categorised bridges, looked at 4 different bridge types then tested the different forces that bridges use (tension and compression).

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Nursery - A New Year & New Opportunities

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This week we took part in cooking workshop based on a famous story 'Handa's Surprise'.

The children were able to touch, feel, smell the fruits from the story and then learn new skills of peeling, chopping and cutting .

They loved the entire experience and most of them (not all) enjoyed…

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Year 2 (Class 6) - DT / PSHE - Classroom Kitchen

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Class 6 loved our 'Classroom Kitchen' workshop! It linked perfectly with our new PSHE topic, 'Keeping Healthy'.

We made delicious yoghurt pots by layering fruit, yoghurt, oats and biscuit.  

We learnt new skills, such as the bridge cut, which we used to cut the fruit…

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Year 2 (Class 7) - DT / PSHE - Cooking in the Classroom

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Class 7 and year 2 took part in cooking in the classroom.

They learnt how to cut using the bridge and claw method. They made yoghurt pots with grapes, banana, strawberries, blueberries, oats, yoghurt, honey and crushed ginger biscuits.

They all tried them and most finished them off.

They…

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