The Year 3’s were learning about how to cook all the fish that the Eqyptians pulled out of the Nile!
D&T
DT Day
Year three enjoyed the challenge of making the skeleton frame of a pyramid, using a range of materials, such as art straws, metal poles, even teachers pens!
Spring Term: Cooking and Nutrition
This term, we have been thinking about the seasonality of fruits in the UK as well as finding out more about why different fruits grow in different countries. We find out about fruits which grow in the tropic regions and discovered information about the journey of the pineapple from Africa to the UK.
Our Challenge: To design and make a tropical fruit salad.
- First we tasted pineapple, papaya, watermelon, banana, apple and tangerine and discussed the taste and our preferences.
- Next we decided what we would put into our tropical fruit salad.
- Then we prepared our cooking space by cleaning and wiping the tables.
- After that we learnt how to use a knife safely and put our skills to the test by chopping up our chosen tropical fruits.
- To finish, we made a yoghurt and mint dip and drizzled this over our salad.
- Afterwards we washed up the utensils and cleaned our work space.
- Finally we tasted our tropical fruit salad.
Autumn 2 Trip to Norwich Cathedral
We have been thinking about our inquiry question “How can one person make a big difference?” and the impact of the Norman Invasion on the city of Norwich. It made us wonder if the Normans hadn’t invaded would Norwich have a Castle or a Cathedral made of French limestone?
Year 5 had the opportunity to put their engineer skills to good use when taking part in an arch building workshop at the Cathedral. We discussed how we thought people in the past built structures without the use of modern technology. We think that the Norwich Cathedral is beautiful and we are impressed by the skills of those who built and crafted each stone.
We were amazed at the size of the Cathedral and thought that the stained glass and stone carvings were beautiful. We enjoyed finding out about the jobs and the lives of the people who built, lived and worked in the Cathedral as well as the roles of people today.
What a fabulous trip.
