Category: DT
Reception’s Discovery Time Birthday Celebrations
Reception had lots of fun making cupcakes as part of their discovery time session all about birthdays. They learnt about how birthday’s are celebrated in different countries. They also designed cakes and wrote invitations and best of all they enjoyed eating their delicious cupcakes! It was a birthday celebration for everyone!
House Christmas Tree Decorating Competition
Each year the Houses succeed in exceeding all expectation with their creativity and community spirit during the Christmas Tree Competition. Walking around the school during the competition a true reflection of Lyndhurst nurturing and caring spirit could be felt. The House Trees look wonderful – with lovely themes and messages in there. The judges are…
Year 5’s amazing Victorian Inventions
Every year, Year 5 recreate some amazing pieces of history, but this year they have really stepped up. The craftsmanship, the technical nous and the brilliant fact finding have impressed not only the teachers and pupils at Lyndhurst School but also all of the visitors to Main Reception who got to marvel at all of…
Breadmaking in Reception
Reception did a brilliant job making bread rolls from scratch. They carefully weighed out all the ingredients paying close attention to the weighing scales, then they all had a turn mixing all the ingredients together. They waited very patiently whilst the bread proved and enjoyed seeing how much it had risen. The children loved kneading…
Year 6 DT Project
Year 6 have been busy making mobile phone cases in their design and technology lessons this term. They used their textile skills to design and produce a felt phone case to keep their mobile phones safe when they go out. Great work Year 6!
Year 3 Roman Mosaics
Year 3 have made Roman mosaics in design and technology lessons this term. They designed their mosaics, cut and stuck down the tiles then grouted their tiles and polished them. They found out that making mosaics is a very hard job and they all agreed it would take a long time to do a design…
Year 6 World War II DT Project
As part of their studies about WWII this term year 6 have been making model Anderson shelters in design and technology lessons. They researched the shelters and discovered that they were made out of corrugated iron. They substituted the iron for corrugated card. The children all worked very hard to produce their models using wood,…
Year 4 Design & Technology
Year 4 have made replica Ancient Egyptian cartouches in their design and technology lessons this term. First they had to learn how to write their names in hieroglyphics. Then they made their cartouche out of clay and wrote their Egyptian names on them. Finally they painted the cartouches using acrylic paints.
Year 5 DT – Greek Pots
Year 5 used clay to make replica Greek pots in their design and technology lessons this term. They made the pots by hand and let the clay air dry, then painted them with Ancient Greek designs. Some of them looked very authentic.
Year 5 DT- Easter Egg Boxes
Year 5 were given the challenge of designing and making an Easter egg box in their design and technology lesson. They had to draw out the correct net for their box design onto a piece of card, which was the tricky part! Once they had constructed their boxes by folding and gluing them, they then…