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.