Design and Technology

Statutory Info

Design and Technology

Design and Technology

Ellwood Community Primary School’s mission statement:

As designers we purposefully plan, make and evaluate to help our ideas to come to life.

National Curriculum Link

National Curriculum

Design and Technology: Intent, Implementation and Impact

Design and Technology Intent Implementation and Impact

Design and Technology: Policy

Design and Technology Policy

Design and Technology: Skills and Knowledge Progression Overview

Skills and Knowledge

2023-2024 Learning

The children in Oak class have been learning about the Autumn season and Harvest time. The children listened to the story `Pumpkin Soup` they then decided it would be a good idea to make some pumpkin soup. The children enjoyed scooping out the contents of the pumpkins. They have even saved the pumpkin seeds to have for their maths area and for some pumpkin seed planting later on in the year. The children really enjoyed making and tasting the soup. It was DELICIOUS!

The children in Willow class have started to create their stuffed toys, they designed their template and cut it out. They selected their fabric and pinned their sections together. The children enjoyed designing the applique the go onto the stuffed toys and practised their blanket stitch ready to stuff them and sew them up!

On Friday the Willow Year 5 children took part in a DT lesson at Dean Academy. They had a great afternoon practising their woodworking skills through making a pencil case. The children worked really hard and were very accurate with their nailing and measuring skills.

Beech Class

Beech class have really enjoyed investigating the features of castles, the 2D and 3D shapes that castles could be made of. They created their own designs, thinking about the design criteria. They created, improved and evaluated their designs.

Chestnut class have designed coasters for family member, they have chose colours and patterns that they would like. This week they have starting sewing our designs on to their coasters.

In Design and Technology the children have been naming different fruits and vegetables. We then designed a healthy wrap choosing our ingredients and then we had lots of fun making them! After the children tasted their wrap we evaluated them, thinking about what we enjoyed and what we would change.

2023-2024 Learning

Year 3 Autumn Term 2023

This term we are investigating pneumatics. We will be creating our own toys using pneumatic systems.

Year 2 Autumns Term 2023

This term we are learning about levers, linkages and mechanisms. We will be using these to create our own moving monsters.

2022-2023 Learning

Chestnut

Spring 2

In Design and Technology, we have been learning how vehicles move. We have labelled parts of vehicles [axles, axle holder and wheels]. The children's design criteria was to make a moving bus to retell the story 'The Naughty Bus'. The children showed lots of our school values whilst building their models. Children showed 'friendship', 'kindness' and 'resilience'

Beech Class - Mineshaft Pulleys

As part of our local history topic Beech class have been looking at mineshaft pulleys, we researched these, evaluated existing models, designed our own then evaluated them. We reached some hurdles along the ways but discussed ways to strengthen our designs as well as adapt them to ensure the pulley would work.