Ightenhill Primary School
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DT
Welcome to Ightenhill’s Design and Technology Curriculum page. Design Technology prepares children to deal with tomorrow’s rapidly changing world. It encourages children to become independent and creative problem-solvers whilst developing their team building skills. The skills taught in Design and Technology provides children with key skills needed for everyday life. This page demonstrates some of the work our children have been completing in their DT lessons.
DT in Action!
Primary Engineer Competition
If you were an Engineer, what would you do?
Year 1 and 2- Mechanisms
Year 1 and 2- Cooking and Nutrition
Year 5- digital Christmas cards
Class 8 - Castles (structures)
Mechanisms
Year 1 have started the mechanisms topic by learning how to use split pins to create a rotating movement. They have been introduced to the word 'pivot' and have created little people with moving limbs.
Using sliders to make pictures move
Textiles
At Ightenhill, the children have been practising their sewing skills in our Textiles topic. Year 1 & 2 have been making a bookmark and year 3 & 4 have been making cushion. Year 5 & 6 have been sewing Christmas decorations. During the topic, the children had to create a range of designs, select their favourite and produce a final product. At the end of the topic, the children evaluated the process and product. The children really enjoyed building their sewing technique and getting creative.
Year 1 & 2
Year 3 & 4
Year 5 & 6
Car and Crane Building
As part of a design and technology project, alongside Primary Engineer in Burnley, all the children have been designing, creating and testing their own cars and in year 5 their own cranes. Throughout the project, the children learned about pulleys, gears, levers, counter-balances and structures, before using their new-found understanding to design and make a car or crane that could drive up a ramp or raise and lower different objects.
While proving to be a challenge, the children thoroughly enjoyed the project and displayed great teamwork and problem solving skills throughout.
Building Bridges - Problem Solving in Year 1
