Design & Technology | St. Mary's RC Primary and Nursery School

Design & Technology, Y4

Year 4 - Christmas stockings.

2nd December 2022

This week has been an exciting week for 4P as we get closer to making our Christmas stockings as part of our Design and Technology unit of work. The children have researched the tradition behind Christmas stockings and made links from this to their own Christmas traditions. They have explored different designs for Christmas stockings and analysed these before...
Design & Technology, Y3

Y3 Design & Technology - Sandwich snacks.

2nd December 2022

In Design Technology, Year 3 have been looking at designing and creating their very own 'sandwich snacks'. After doing some taste testing last week, the children were ready to start designing. We chose to do this by creating a 'exploded diagram', which helped us to clearly show all the ingredients and fillings that will be used in our sandwiches....
Design & Technology, Y5

Y5 Design & Technology - Festive food

2nd December 2022

In D/T this term we are going to design a festive food product linked to our topic on bread. So far, we have tasted different types of bread, filled in surveys linked with how much bread we and others eat, made a basic bread dough and designed what our final product will look like. In the next few weeks...
Design & Technology, Y2

Y2 - Puppet Making

2nd December 2022

Year 2 have been learning all about the art of puppet making in DT. The children have talked about the different ways of making puppets and the materials used. This week we have designed and labelled our puppets describing the tools and materials we will need ready to start the construction phase next week.
All Pupils, Design & Technology, Science

Gingerbread men and growing veg

19th May 2020

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Emma has been busy baking delicious gingerbread men and growing onions and beans. She has been checking on them everyday to see how much they have grown.
Art, Design & Technology, Geography, PE, Y5

Yr 5 Class Dojo protfolios

13th May 2020

Members of Year 5 have begun uploading their work to their portfolio on Class Dojo for Mr Whittle to check, comment and feedback. They have been exceptionally busy with their home learning which is great to see. Cody has been busy with his maths and English and his Amazon research; Anna has been working hard on her grammar and...
Design & Technology

Cookies!

13th May 2020

After a hard day completing her school work Orla had a lot of fun making these yummy cookies. They look delicious.
All Pupils, Design & Technology, Science

Delicious burger!

5th May 2020

William has been hard at work on his DT project researching different food groups and calories and their benefits to the human body. He has then written a set of instructions for making a burger before following them to produce this delicious meal. Apparently, the best part was the eating. Being a burger expert I can agree that it...
Curriculum, Design & Technology, English, Y2

Seaside Project

1st May 2020

Elizabeth has shared her home learning on her seaside snack project. Mrs Haste was most impressed and said that it looks delicious. Maybe you could follow Elizabeth's instructions too. Well done.
Art, Curriculum, Design & Technology, English, History, Maths, Y5

Year 5 Home Learning

1st May 2020

Children from year 5 have been hard at work this on their home learning. Matteo has again been hard at work on his maths, English and keeping up with his times tables. Beth has produced some fantastic art work in the style of impressionist artist Monet. Finally, Amelie has made a model of a Mayan god along with a...
All Pupils, Art, Curriculum, Design & Technology, English, Maths, Science

Amazing Home Learning!

24th April 2020

Wow! The children of St. Mary's are certainly getting stuck into their home learning and producing some amazing English, maths and lots of other amazing activities. Orlaith and James have been busy getting stuck into their maths and English work whilst the Days have been exceptionally busy making, baking and creating. Meanwhile, Josh has just received his caterpillars in...
Art, Computing, Curriculum, Curriculum Overviews, Design & Technology, English, Enrichment, Geography, History, Maths, Music, PE, PSHE, RE, Science

Being creative in a range of subjects

25th March 2020

Chatterpack; A huge list of free resources and websites, including mental health support; https://chatterpack.net/blogs/blog/list-of-online-resources-for-anyone-who-is-isolated-at-home Powerpoint which includes lots of useful resources for parents to use at home Seneca; https://www.senecalearning.com/ BBC Bitesize; http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize
All Pupils, Art, Computing, Curriculum, Curriculum Overviews, Design & Technology, English, Enrichment, Geography, History, Maths, Music, PE, PSHE, RE, Science

Free education subscriptions

25th March 2020

Below is an entire list of websites offering free subscriptions due to the school closure 2Simple AdmitHub ABCMouse/Adventure Academy ALBERT Alchemie American Chemistry Society Backpack Sciences Boardmaker BookCreator App BrainPop Breakout Edu Buncee Century CheckMath CircleTime Fun CiscoWebex CK-12 Foundation ClassDojo Classroom Secrets ClassHook Classtime CMU CS Academy CommonLit Conjugemos Coursera for Campus Curriki Deck. Toys DeltaMath Discovery Ed Dyslexia Academy Ecoballot EdConnect Edmodo EdPuzzle Education Perfect Eduflow Edulastic Edu-Together Elementari Emile Epraise Epic! EverFi Explain Everything Fiveable Flipgrid Fluency Matters Freckle Free Math Gamilab Genially GoGuardian Good2Learn Google For Edu Gynzy Hapara Hawkes Learning HippoCampus Ideas Roadshow IDEA InThinking i-Ready Izzit.org Kahoot Kami KET’s PBS Learning Media Khan Academy Kids Discover Online Kognity LabsLand Learning Apps Libby App ListenWise Manga High Microsoft Education Minecraft: Education Edition MobyMax Mozi MusicFirst Mystery Science NearPod Newsela Nimbus Capture Outschool Otus Packback Parlay Pear Deck PebbleGo By Capstone Peergrade PenPal Prodigy Pronto Rockalingua Salesforce ScienceWerkz Schoology ScreenCastify Seesaw Seneca Seterra Geography Scholastic Shmoop Sight Reading Suite SmartMusic StoryBoard Tailor-ED TechSmith Tes...
Art, Design & Technology, English, Enrichment, Geography, Maths, Nursery, PE, PSHE, RE, Science

Winter Topic in F1

14th February 2020

This half term in Nursery we have been very busy learning all about Winter. We have used our senses to look for signs of Winter outside and discuss the changes we have seen. In Literacy we have focussed on the books ‘Say hello to the snowy animals’ and ‘Lost and Found.’ We have been working hard on developing our mark-making...
Art, Design & Technology, Enrichment, EYFS, Maths

Chinese New Year in EYFS

24th January 2020

Today we have been learning all about the Chinese New Year. We found out about the different ways that Chinese people celebrate the New Year and listened to the story about how the different years got their animal names: this is the year of the rat! In our class we have looked carefully at different Chinese artefacts: the children...
Design & Technology, English, EYFS, Science

Feeding the Birds

24th January 2020

Our current topic in F2 is winter. We have been reading a non-fiction book about winter and also used the internet to find winter facts. We have been looking for signs of winter in our school environment and comparing winter to the other seasons. You can help your child in their learning by talking to them about signs of...
Design & Technology, EYFS, Science

EYFS: We are rocket builders!

21st November 2019

In EYFS our young learners have all been very engaged by our recent "Space" theme. In F2 we have been spending time designing and making rockets in a variety of ways. We have looked at lots of photos of rockets in books and on the computer. We have taken time to design our rockets, thinking about what we want...
Curriculum, Design & Technology, Enrichment, History, Y6

Mayan Feast

16th October 2019

After studying the Mayans for a number of weeks =, Year 5's work has culminated in them getting to try out some recipes similar to those the Mayans would have eaten. This included eating totillas made from corn (as maize was a staple of the Mayan diet), making a salsa and getting to try an ancient Mayan recipe for...
Design & Technology, Geography, Y2

Wonderful Welsh Cakes

10th July 2019

As part of Year 2's topic on 'Where does our food come from?' they have been learning about different foods from around the UK. They began by locating these on a map and placing them in the correct place. They the correct places for foods such as haggis, jellied eels, Bakewell tarts, soda bread and also Welsh cakes. Then...