DT

Visit to Howsham Mill

Year 6 had a visit to Howsham Mill, near Malton, on the 21st and 22nd February, which is a renovated mill, now used to generate electricity. The activities included learning about renewable energy, map work around the island, building a working water wheel, viewing the machinery which generated power, learning about the wildlife which lived around the [...]

Year 4 – DT

In Autumn Term, Year 4 began their Construction unit by first looking at a local structure, the Humber Bridge. They examined facts about the Humber Bridge and other success stories, and reviewed some familiars too, such as the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. In addition, they looked at multiple ways of joining cardboard, assessing each for [...]

Titanic Textiles

During the Autumn term, Year Four were given a design brief to create a small cushion for a passenger of the Titanic; students had to first look at designs relevant to the 1910s era, then create their own design using no more than four colours. From there, children first practised sewing using hessian strips, [...]

Ancient Egyptian Feast – Year 4

This half-term, Year Four have been looking at Food & Nutrition within their Design Technology lessons. We undertook a series of activities before creating our Ancient Egyptian feast, which included: food tasting as market research, using laptops to uncover common foods eaten in Ancient Egypt, and researching an Ancient Egyptian honey-cakes recipe. It was [...]

Bread Making – Year 5

Year 5 have been loving their recent DT unit, refining their knowledge of the process of design.  We have researched different types of bread and thought about how to use this knowledge to create our own.  We practised shaping so we could create something appealing and carefully constructed. It was amazing to [...]

Well Being Wednesday

This week has been 'Children's Mental Health Week' (1st - 7th February). This was first launched by Place2Be and has been developed in conjunction with Oak Academy. The theme this year has been 'Express Yourself.' In the current circumstances, this could not be more important! In school, pupils have enjoyed a range of [...]

Home Learning

Well done to all the children and parents who have been busy learning at home.  It was lovely to see their work on Class Dojo and how hard they have been working during their lockdown period. Here is a selection of some of their work and activities they have been doing. Thank you to [...]

Pneumatic Monsters – Year 3

Last week the pupils were busy with DT (Design and Technology) and the topic this term is Pneumatic monsters.  The children learn lots of skills from DT, firstly they had to decide what sort of Stone Age monster they wanted to make and design it.  Next they have to be able to follow their [...]

Book in a Box Competition – 2020

Our annual Book in a Box Competition has returned for World Book Day and we have some wonderful entries.  There are books from the traditional tales, to more recent authors like David Walliams and some children have based their creations on this term's reading book. The standards were high as always, making it difficult [...]

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