Design and Technology

Design and Technology encourages children to use their creativity and imagination to design and make a quality product. They will be expected to work with different tools, equipment, materials and components. The finished products will then be evaluated in order to identify improvements that could be made to their work in the future. Design and Technology has links with many other curriculum areas including Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Art.

DT in Nursery

Whilst reading Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Nursery learnt how to follow instructions to make their own porridge. They also sorted materials.

Nursery explored how to make their own bridges like the troll’s bridge in the Three Billy Goats Gruff. They also thought about what the troll would look like and created their own craft trolls.

Nursery created binoculars by connecting kitchen rolls with masking tape.  We used them to bird watch in the garden.

During Harvest, Nursery baked their own bread rolls, just like the Little Red Hen did.

DT in Reception

Reception spent the Spring Term baking to raise money for charity.  They made different baked goods each week and then sold them after school.  They made £600 for the Watford Food Bank.

We have been learning how to join materials in different ways, using tape, spilt pins and we even had a try at weaving.

In Reception, we try so hard to learn to cut accurately. We learn how to hold our scissors correctly and to follow the line carefully.     

We have been learning how to cut our fruit during our snack time. We have been focusing on how to hold our safety knife correctly and how we hold our fruit safely as well.

DT in Year 5

K’Nex Challenge

Year 5 took part in a STEM day. They worked with Roseanna, an industry volunteer, and were challenged to construct a bulldozer using Connex. They were not given any instructions. At the end of the session winning pairs were selected from both classes.

DT in Year 6

As part of our Autumn DT topic we designed and created our own cross stitch Christmas cards.