Design and Technology

We enjoyed our challenge to design and make a Moon Buggy or Mars Rover. First, we needed to research these vehicles to learn about their features and functions. Next, we […] […]

Today, Puddlebridge enjoyed their first Design and Technology day of the year. To support our learning about The Awesome Egyptians in history, we designed, made, and tested our own shadufs. […] […]

In design and technology, we worked in groups to design and make an Egyptian shaduf. These were used by the ancient Egyptians to collect water from the River Nile to […] […]

We have looked at several different puppets and how they move. We have enjoyed watching some famous puppet shows. We then designed and made our own glove puppets. […]

In Design and Technology, Puddlebridge have enjoyed developing our textiles skills. Our challenge was to design and make an attractive yet durable cushion. We began with primary and secondary research, […] […]

In Design and Technology, we have been developing our skills working with textiles. Our challenge was to design and make an attractive cushion that would also be durable. Before we […] […]

We have had a fantastic time during ‘Box week’. We read some different books all about what you can make with a cardboard box. It was exciting to be able […] […]

Today, Danes Class enjoyed participating in the 2025 GoConstruct K’nex challenge. This is an engineering challenge involving around 180 schools across Hertfordshire and surrounding areas. Led by our local STEM […] […]

We have been looking at healthy eating (as year 2 have been in science). We looked at the different food groups and the ‘Eatwell Plate’. We then evaluated some different […] […]

We have been working hard and learning all about space. We designed and created our own spaceships, working towards our curriculum ambition of creating intricate junk models. We used our […] […]

As part of our learning in design and technology, we have worked in groups to design and make a Second World War Shelter. We learnt how to construct a jinx […] […]

Our first DT topic of the year went brilliantly. We used our prior scientific knowledge of circuits to help construct our own war planes that actually flew. We made a […] […]

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In our recent Design and Technology sessions, we’ve been diving into the world of cam toys! We kicked things off by learning that cams rotate on an axle while making […] […]

On Wednesday, Puddlebridge Class had lots of fun taking part in the 2024 GoConstruct K’nex challenge. This event, which involves around 180 schools from Hertfordshire and surrounding areas, is an […] […]

Today, Danes Class enjoyed participating in the 2024 GoConstruct K’nex challenge. This is an engineering challenge involving around 180 schools across Hertfordshire and surrounding areas. Led by our local STEM […] […]

In Design Technology this half term, we fired up our creativity as we designed and made our own money containers. We started off exploring a wide range of different purses […] […]

What a fantastic day Years Four, Five and Six had visiting Tower Bridge! This visit supported our learning in Geography and DT. In Geography, our focus is Rivers so it […] […]

We have been experimenting with axles and wheels. We have looked at two main types of axles – fixed and rotating. Here are some of our practice models. We then […] […]

Our first few days back in school after Christmas were full of exciting Art and Design Technology. Before Christmas, we worked on sketching and block printing in the style of […] […]

What an exciting start we have had to the term! On our very first day back after the Christmas break, we enjoyed a DT day. We began by learning about […] […]

We are excited that we get to take part in cooking club. Joyce, our wonderful cook, helps us to learn about healthy eating and cooking. We made some really delicious […] […]

Cutting is one of the skills that we spend a long time working in Shackadell class. Some of us are learning to control scissors by snipping paper and some of […] […]

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This week, we have made our own pencil cases. We learnt how to use a sewing machine last year when we made cushions so we were able to refine our […] […]

In DT, we have been making bread. We began by sampling some different breads from around the world. We compared their taste, their texture and their appearance. Some of our […] […]

In Design and Technology we have been looking at different vegetables that we could use to make a healthy salad. We tasted some existing products and evaluated these. We then […] […]

As part of our DT, the children designed and created their own smoothie. We discussed the importance of balanced diet and how to include a variety of fruit and vegetables […] […]

We enjoyed our challenge to design and make a Moon Buggy or Mars Rover. First, we needed to research these vehicles to learn about their features and functions. Next, we […] […]

This half term, we have thoroughly enjoyed researching, designing and building electric vehicles. We started off by learning about how electric cars work and why they are important in tackling […] […]

We read the core text ‘Lost and Found’ by Oliver Jeffers as part of our learning about Antarctica. We really enjoyed learning about penguins this week and this story was […] […]

As part of our fairy tale topic we read the story of ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’. We really enjoyed this story and thought a lot about the bridge that […] […]

We have spent the last few weeks reading lots of fairy tales. We have been using pictures, puppets, props, story maps and small world figures to retell some familiar fairy […] […]

We have been really enjoying learning all about superheroes! We focussed on our core texts of ‘Supertato’ by Sue Hendra and ‘Real Superheroes’ by Julia Seal. We loved creating our […] […]

Following the theme of Christmas, the children designed a felt Christmas tree for DT. They took their time to research, design and finally make their Christmas trees. The results are […] […]

Having learnt about forces in science last half term, we were able to apply our understanding of levers in design and technology as we worked in groups to design and […] […]

In Design and Technology, we have been developing our skills working with textiles. Our challenge was to design and make an attractive cushion that would also be durable. Before we […] […]

In order to round off our ‘Brave and Beautiful Britain’ topic, we had a whole day of Design and Technology in which we designed, built, and tested our very own […] […]