Design and Technology

Autumn 2

30th October

The children have been researching and evaluating exisiting food products to enable us to design and make a healthy and seasonal two course meal.  They have looked at where food comes from and tried to understand seasonality, and know where and how a variety of ingredients are grown, reared, caught and processed

6th November

20th November

This week, the children are very excited. Within their groups, they will produce 2 recipes, a vegetable soup and a fruit crumble.

The children hd plenty of information on what ingredients that they would like. They have tasted a variety of vegetables and fruit crumble which has helped them enormously. 

The children had great fun cooking and tasting their food.

Spring 2

Year 5 will be busy in a few weeks. They will be learning all about what are Mechanical Toys.

Working in groups, the children will be discussing the following questions:

• How does the mechanism work?
• How many cams are there?
• What shapes are the cams?
• What materials have been used?
• What is the purpose of the toy?
• Who would pplay with this toy?
• What are the strengths/likes of the toy?
• What are the weaknesses/dislikes of the toy?

The children will be busy planning and creating their designs. They have to think of the three things:

• Product - What could we make?
• Purpose -  What is it for?
• User - Who is going to use it?

They looked at cam mechanism. A cam mechanism is made up of three components, a cam, a slider and a follower. The mechanism causes the components to move.

Summer

                              Sewing

In DT,  we are creating a drawstring bag.

The children have been evaluating a drwstring bag. They looked at a variety of bag of different design and thought about who would use them, what for and when.

They also looked at what the material they would use, would it be waterproof?, the size of their product and who would buy it.

Today the children were shown diffewrent styles of sewing that they can later use when creating their product.

They then began to design their prototype of their product.