Our Year 5 class had an exciting RAF Road to RIAT day, where the children explored the fascinating world of space and rockets. They took part in engaging activities that helped them learn about how rockets work, the challenges of space travel, and the science behind launching into orbit. The day was filled with curiosity, teamwork, and hands-on learning, inspiring the children to think like scientists and engineers while deepening their understanding of space exploration. As part of the experience, the children also took part in a live lesson where they designed, built, and tested their own rockets, putting their new knowledge into practice in a fun and memorable way.
Design and Technology: Blog items
Date: 17th Oct 2025 @ 2:54pm
This week, Year 2 have been putting all the skills they’ve learnt during our Design and Technology journey into action to create their final puppets! From designing and cutting fabric to sewing and decorating, the children showed brilliant creativity, perseverance, and attention to detail. It’s been wonderful to see how much their confidence and skills have grown — and their finished puppets are simply amazing!
Date: 17th Oct 2025 @ 12:52pm
In Redwoods we have spent alot of time this half term develop our understanding what resilience means and sometimes that this can be difficult to achieve. Together we have also been developing our ability to self regulate and identify ways to help ourselves to cover come barriers. We have enjoyed doing this through creative, purposeful and interactive activities. We learnt about the ' The Bounce Scale' and how to use this as a regulation tool.
Date: 17th Oct 2025 @ 12:48pm
This week we explored a range of different healthy fruits and what they taste like. After thinking carefully about how these fruits tasted we designed our own fruit smoothie. Once we were happy and with an adults help we prepared our fruit for blending by using safe cutting skills that we have mastered. Finally we enjoyed drinking our smoothies before evaluatign them.
Date: 2nd Oct 2025 @ 9:15am
Year 2 have been learning some key skills to help them with sewing. The children have been practising how to thread a needle, tie knots securely, and use needles safely. They have also been developing their stitching technique by learning and applying the running stitch. These skills will support them as they continue to build confidence and independence in their sewing projects.
Date: 30th Sep 2025 @ 7:26pm
This week the children have been reading the traditional tale 'Little Red Hen' As part of our learning the children enjoyed going to the school kitchen Redcliffes to make their own loafs of bread, just like the Little Red Hen. Before we started we talk about the iportance of hygiene and made sure we had all washed our hands properly. We also used our widget vocabularly sheets to idntify any new words and talked about what they meant. We checked we had the correct ingredients including; flour, water, salt, oil and yeast. We followed the recipe to make make our dough making sure we kneading it well. We then put it in the oven for it to cook. When it was ready we enjoyed tasting the bread.
Redwoods Cooking Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Date: 29th Sep 2025 @ 3:57pm
In this weeks cooking lesson we discussed more about kitchen safety before looking at the steps to making chocolate chip cookies. We measured out each of our ingrediants before creating our cookies dough and baking it. Our cookies were tasty and crunchy.
Nursery Bake some Bear Cookies
Date: 25th Sep 2025 @ 2:40pm
In Nursery, we felt very sad for the bear from "We're Going on a Bear Hunt". The children thought he looked really sad at the end of the story and maybe he just wanted some friends.To cheer him up, we made him some delicious cookies to share. As we made the biscuits, the children listened carefully to instructions, took turns with their friends and watched how the ingredients changed. The bear said our biscuits melted in his mouth and went down a treat with a nice cup of tea.
Date: 18th Sep 2025 @ 9:08am
Yesterday we had so much fun baking flapjacks. Before we entered the kitchen we discussed the health and safety rules, as we were using the ovens and hobs. Together we identified the procedure we would follow and how we would would in pirs and small groups.
Date: 12th Sep 2025 @ 2:40pm
In Redwoods we enjoyed working with a partner to measure ingrediants and create our own pizza dough. Once be had baked our bases we prepared a range of toppings, before finally making our masterpieces. We enjoyed getting to eat our final products, which were delicious.
Date: 11th Sep 2025 @ 3:58pm
In Year Two, we have started our Design Technology journey by looking at existing products. We looked at shadow, marionette, finger and hand puppets and thought about the purpose, user, material and how it was joined together. We will then use this when we go on to plan and design our own puppets.
Date: 3rd Jul 2025 @ 11:14am
Year 5 had a brilliant DT day exploring how circuits work and what it takes to bring a product to market! We kicked off by investigating simple circuits, learning how to power a bulb and create a working switch. Then we shifted gears to think like real designers—researching existing torches and carrying out some market research to understand what makes a product successful. Armed with our findings and new circuit knowledge, we got hands-on and designed our very own torches, each one complete with a bulb and a functional switch. A great mix of creativity, problem-solving, and real-world thinking.
Reception Making a healthy snack
Date: 27th Jun 2025 @ 11:57am
This week in Reception we have been learning about how to keep our bodies and minds healthy. As part of our learning we have been identifying a range of different foods which who be a good healthy snack. We talked about the importance of making healthy choices and why they are important. All of the children designed and made their own healthy snack. We tasted the differetn fruits and talked about which ones where ourfavourites and why.
"I like strawberries, they are nece and juicey" Freyja
"Kiwi is my favourite" Kevin
The children then safety used the equipment to chop amd slice the friut and then put it on their kebab stick. Together we all enjo0yed eating ourfruit kebabs.
Date: 24th Jun 2025 @ 1:23pm
As part of our DT journey, we have spent some time looking at careers related to textiles. We watched videos of a fashion designer, wedding dress designer and a tailor. Perhaps one day, one of us will use the skills we have learned in DT to support our career.
Date: 20th Jun 2025 @ 1:14pm
Today we started our DT journey of textiles. Our first lesson was looking at existing felt products and discussing stitches used, intended user and design. Then we practised previously learned stitches on binca squares.
Date: 2nd Jun 2025 @ 10:58am
Last half term, we learned about different food types in DT. In addition, we looked at what chefs are required to do and what skills they need to be successful in their careers.
We then conducted market research and discovered what others would like on blinis (small pancakes). We designed small blinis for a party. On our last day before half term break, we followed recipes and made our blinis. The children used a variety of spreads, fruits, sauces and creams! They looked very tasty!
Date: 22nd May 2025 @ 2:08pm
Today we completed our DT food unit and used our knowledge of fruits and where they come from to make our fruit smoothies. This morning, we carefully cut our fruits before we blended them to make a smoothie and evaluated their taste, texture and appearance.
Date: 21st May 2025 @ 7:51pm
In DT, we have looked at making a balanced meal, using all of the food groups such as, proteins, carbohydrates, fibre, dairy and oils and spread. We learned why we need each of these to keep our bodies healthy and to keep everything working s it should. We then created some wraps and pittas containing as many as the food groups we could. As soon as we made them, the children couldn’t wait to tuck into them and write up their evaluation.
Date: 20th May 2025 @ 2:24pm
This week we have been reading the story The Bog Bay. It about two little girls who discover a magical pond in Bluebell Wood. Inside the pond they find a 'Bog Baby'- a jelly like creature with ting wings and a spikey tail. The girls take the Bog Baby home to look after and care for it- they even make it a special home in a bucket. However, soon the Bog Baby gets sick and the girls realise (with the help of their mum) that the need to return the Bog Baby to magical pond where it lives.
The children have then crated their own Bog Baby models using clay trying hard to include all his different features- googly eyes, a spikey tail and tiny wings. They had to carefully mould the clay to the correct shape and use the skills; slip, score and blend to ensure they correctly attached all the different features. When the clay had dried they painted their models and made a magical pond for it to live in using a range of different meduims and materials at the creative area.
Have a look at our wonderful models!
Date: 1st May 2025 @ 9:20am
Throughout the half term, we are going to design and create our own healthy fruit smoothie. Today, we tried a variety of fruit smoothies that already exist as well as trying a variety of different fruits to find out which ones we liked or disliked. This will help us when designing our own smoothie as we have evaluated their taste, texture and appearance and thought about how this might change when blended. We are looking forward to creating our smoothies in the next few weeks!
Date: 10th Apr 2025 @ 2:16pm
To celebrate Easter, the nursey children made some delicious Easter Nests. We melted the choclate and talked about how when chocolate gets hot it melts and goes runny. We then mixed cornflakes in to the the choclolate and spooned the mixture in to cake case before finally adding a sweet on top. We then talked about how when the chocolate cooled down, it would go hard again and the cakes would be ready to eat!
Year 2- Making moving vehicles
Date: 10th Apr 2025 @ 9:20am
This half term we have been making our own moving vehicles. We decided what we would use to create our wheels and axles and designed our boxes to create the shape we wanted for our car. Then, we used our marking out skills to cut out windows and added designs once they had been painted. We loved our cars and were excited to take them home to use.
Year 3- Super shell structures!
Date: 10th Apr 2025 @ 9:07am
Our DT focus this half term has been evaluating, designing and making shell structures. We created our final product of an easter gift box and included fastening of bows or velcro. This meant that our gift boxes could be reused and we spoke about how the cardboard material that is was made from was recyclable. The children really enjoyed using CAD on the computers to create their final design.
Date: 12th Mar 2025 @ 8:35am
Having completed construction of their bug hotels, pupils in year 5 have place them around the school grounds to provide shelter for insects and other wildlife. They have been made from eco-friendly materials that will decompose naturally over time.
Date: 11th Mar 2025 @ 1:22pm
In Design Technology, Year Three have been learning all about Shell Structures. This week we used CAD software to practice making nets more appealing for our user. The children looked at changing the colour and adding images and drawings. We also looked at adding in text and changing the colour and the font. The children will use these skills when making their final product.
