DT Enrichment

Habitats in Year 2

Year 2 have created habitats and thought carefully about which animals live in them. If you want to take a look at our habitat gallery, pop into Year 2 to see the finished products!

Engineers of the future in Year 3

Not a day goes by without me being amazed by the creativity, ingenuity and downright brilliance of the children I am lucky enough to teach. We have come to the end of our chariot project and the amount of independent engineering and problem-solving that the children have done is staggering. From debating the relative merits […]

DT chariot design

We’re nearing the end of our learning about the Romans, but can’t do so without investigating their superb engineering skills. We are spending the next couple of weeks focusing on DT as we make models of Roman chariots. We watched a chariot race and identified what functions a chariot needed to perform. We then made […]

Wacky Racers

DT Enrichment have been designing and making spring-loaded ‘wacky racers’.

Year 3 make light work of… light!

As part of our work on light and reflection we found out about the spectrum of colour, made colour spinners and observed what happened when they were spun quickly – I think the looks on their faces show how well they observed what happened!

Year 6: Periscopes & Kaleidoscopes

In this lesson we made periscopes and kaleidoscopes in pairs. We discussed the science behind why they work and how they work.

Year 2 Carousel This Week!

Baking bread, construction with Lego (building houses to protect our teddy ), practising odd and even numbers, Literacy treasure hunt and creating our textured paper for our Eric Carle collages.

Reception make story boxes.

Choosing pages from their favourite books as backgrounds, the class have been adding props to these mini sets and then putting on plays with their friends.

Rocket Making 🚀

Today, Forest School made rockets and fired them high into the sky.