A Design and Technology challenge for Early Years! What can you design with a cardboard box?
After reading Not a Box, (Antoinette Portis) children had the opportunity to plan, design and make their own creations using a number of different resources. Parents were invited into school to help them complete their designs.
As part of Edible Garden topic, Years 3 and 4 learn where and how a variety of ingredients are grown. They are taught how to apply the principles of a healthy and varied diet in the context of making a balanced meal made from herbs. Within their lessons they discuss seasonality, understand the Eatwell plate and select a range of tools to prepare ingredients safely and hygienically.
As part of Big Light, Big City topic in the Spring Term, KS1 discuss how they can make a 3D model structure. They needed to consider how this structure could be as stable as possible and stand up on its own using a variety of different joining techniques.