Design and Technology

Year 1

Module 5

This module we investigated different types of materials and what went wrong when the 'Three Little Pigs' built their houses. We looked at different buildings and their structures. We discovered, by looking at the building site at school, that walls and roofs need supporting. We used this knowledge to build our own wooden walls for the pigs.

N.C. Through a variety of creative and practical activities, pupils should be taught the knowledge, understanding and skills needed to engage in an iterative process of designing and making. They should work in a range of relevant contexts [for example, the home and school, gardens and playgrounds, the local community, industry and the wider environment].

Pupils should be taught about: generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through talking, and drawing build structures and explore how they can be made stronger, stiffer and more stable.

Module 6

This module began by reading books with moving parts which really impressed us. We then read the story of the, 'Gingerbread Man' and thought carefully about how we could tell the story with moving parts. We then put our precise cutting skills to good use and created a scene, from the story, with a slider so the characters could chase the Gingerbread Man. We continued to look at tradtional tales and books with levers. We used our research to think about how we could use a lever to show Jack climbing the magical beanstalk. We had to use our measuring, cutting and hole making skills to create these.

Our research and skills practise led us in to creating our very own story picture with moving parts. During the design process, we thought about the materials and tools that we would require and designed multiple scenes to compare and decide which would work best. We made our best designs into a reality and evaluated them to see what had gone well and what we could make even better next time.

N.C Through a variety of creative and practical activities, pupils should be taught the knowledge, understanding and skills needed to engage in an iterative process of designing and making. When designing and making, pupils should explore and use mechanisms [for example, levers, sliders, wheels and axles], in their products.

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