Design & Technology Curriculum Posts
Swinemoor Masterchef 2016
This week we held our annual Masterchef competition. Everyone at school took part in making a variety of different foods. Including Fruit Cocktails and breads from different times in history.
Masterchef 2015
Earlier this week all the children in school took part in a Design and Technology project. The project took the form of a Masterchef competition. The children had been working on different recipes using different [...]
Moving Toys
The Design and Technology theme this term was Moving Toys. Children from Foundation Stage to Year 6 all worked on projects completing some fantastic pieces of work. Each class had at least one winner and [...]
Moving Toys
In our Design and Technology project Years 5 and 6 have created moving toys with cam mechanisms. We worked co-operatively with a partner to investigate, design and construct a moving toy. We used single rise [...]
Water Wheel Challenge
The Water Wheel Challenge is where you have 8 plastic cups and 8 red K’nex and we had a K’nex white star and we had to make a water wheel out of these things and [...]
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