Design 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 for the next couple 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.