Reception - Fruit Salad! 

Following on from our fruit themed World Book Day activities on Friday, we made and ate fruit salad for special snack on Monday! Just like Oliver did in the book we have been reading - ‘Oliver’s Fruit Salad!’.
We all remembered that we needed to wipe the tables, wash our hands with soap and wear an apron before we started handling the fruits and other equipment, to stop any germs spreading that might get into our tummies and make us feel unwell.
We then began by using a tin of mandarin segments in juice as a base for our fruit salad. The children learned that a mandarin is a small orange similar to a tangerine or clementine. They were able to say that the juice was a liquid and the segments were a solid - great links to previous learning!
They then learned how to hold a knife correctly for cutting with their dominant hand and also how to hold the fruit they were cutting in a safe manner (like a bridge that the knife goes through the middle of) so their fingers were safe. Each child chose a fruit to add and everyone then cut up that fruit and popped it into the bowl! To finished the children each had a turn at stirring the fruit salad together!
The children then enjoyed the fruit salad as a healthy special snack! I was very impressed as even the children who were unsure tried it! 👏
We then learned about how this would be one of our portions of fruit and vegetables for the day. The children discovered how it is recommended that we eat 5 portions a day!  🍒🍓🍇🍎🍉🍑🍊🍋🍍🍌🥑🍏🍈🥝🥭🥥🍅🫐🥕🥬🥦🥒🥗🌽🧅🫑

Year 1 - Cooking and Nutrition - Smoothies

In the Autumn term, the children learned about a wide range of fruit and vegetables and how to identify them and distinguish between them. They then learned about where fruit and vegetables come from, for example underground, or above ground. The children then enjoyed practicing food preparation skills and testing out ingredients, ready to make their recipe. All the planning and preparation was then put into practice when the children actually made their very own smoothies. They independently cut up their fruit, poured their juice and prepared it all; ready to go in the blender, for the teachers to mix it all up. The children enjoyed trying their finished products and then evaluated them.

Year 2 - Cooking and nutrition

This half term year 2 children have been learning all about cooking and nutrition and using these skills to create a healthy, balanced wrap. They learned how to identify the appropriate equipment to prepare the foods they would need, followed a design brief to design a healthy, balanced wrap and used their skills to make their wrap, taste it and evaluate it. 

Year 6- Electrical Circuits- Steady Hand Game

Design and Technology - Egg vehicle challenge

Before the children broke up for Easter they had the opportunity to take part in a vehicle challenge. The children were provided with 4 wheels and 2 Rowling rods which had to be used in their design. The aim of the challenge was to create a vehicle that would transport an unboiled egg across the room. Take a look at some of the children’s inventions. 

Design & Technology - Reception: Space vehicles

During their space topic Reception class created space vehicles using their junk modelling skills. The children showed great skills and independence in their construction. The children had the opportunity to:

• Develop their own ideas and then decide which materials to use to express them
• Join different materials and explore different textures. 

Design & technology - Reception: Wiggly worm puppets

During our 'Light and Dark' topic the children took a great interest in worms so they started learning the song, ‘There’s a worm at the bottom of the garden!’, and the children all made a dancing wiggly worm puppet to use to help perform the song!

They had to watch, listen and follow some tricky instructions closely and they used skills including cutting, folding, sticking and drawing!

The children applied their prior knowledge remembering they only needed to draw a mouth on their earthworm as they don’t have eyes, ears or noses! 

They then performed the song using their puppets for their nursery friends.

During this Design and Technology challenge the children had the opportunity to: 

• Explore different materials freely, to develop their ideas about how to use them and what to make.
• Join different materials and explore different textures. 
•  Return to and build on their previous learning, refining ideas and developing their ability to represent them. 
• Create collaboratively, sharing ideas, resources and skills.

Design and Technology - Year 2: A Balanced Diet

The children in Year 2 have been investigating what a healthy diet is. They then completed some taste testing. From this they then had to design a healthy wrap including the following points:

• The wrap must be healthy
• The wrap should include a protein, vegetable (Parts of plants that can be eaten by people as food. The parts may be the leaves, roots or stem.)
• The children should like the wrap
• The wrap should be tasty but not expensive

The children then made their wraps and evaluated them. 

Design & technology - Year 4: adapting a recipe

In year 4 the children were looking at and evaluating cookies that are already on the market and using their findings they designed, made and evaluated their own cookie recipes. What delicious cookies they were!

Design & Technology - Year 5: Electronic greeting cards

At Christmas time, Year 5 designed, made, evaluated and used their technical knowledge of circuits to create an electronic Christmas card. They all did a brilliant job and were very successful. Well done Year 5!

Design & Technology - Year 6: Waistcoats

In Year 6 the children have been designing, making and evaluating waistcoats to fit a teddy bear. The children showed great skill in all 3 stages and the end result was fantastic!