Design Technology
"Design is a solution to a problem.
Art is a question to a problem."
-John Maeda
(Former President of the Rhode Island school of Design)
Look at what children say about DT at St Austin's....
Year 1 -
Year 2 -
Year 3 -Lili- " I've enjoyed making a box. We are going to use a straw and balloon to open the lid. If we blow through the straw into the balloon, the balloon will inflate and open the box."
Frank- "I enjoyed decorating my box. We could choose which materials we wanted. Hopefully, we are going to show our boxes to Year 1 children and demonstrate how the lids open with a balloon."
Lili-" It was hard making my castle because we had to make towers and a drawbridge that actually worked. I twisted paper to make a mechanism for my drawbridge."
Frank-"My drawbridge worked and my castle was stable."
Year 4 - Maria-" I like using different techniques to build structures. I made a pavillion out of paper, straw and wire."
Kitty-"I made my pavillion with Seth. We made a cover with tissue paper."
"We worked in teams to make cookies. We could make choc chip, vanilla or fruit. We made a little container for our cookies and we could decorate it how we liked."
Year 5 -Annabelle- " I have enjoyed making pillows. We designed a pattern, cut out the shapes and did some sewing."
Eric -"I enjoyed making spaghetti sculptures."
"I liked cutting out the material for my pillow. It will be red and blue and spherical in shape."
Annabelle-"We baked muffins and we had to decide what flavour our muffins would be. We could choose savoury flavours or sweet flavours."
Year 6 - Skyla-"I made a playground activity which included a ladder, a tunnel and a slide. We used
coloured card, glue, straws and wooden sticks."
Finley-"We were able to remember how to make a circuit when we made buzzer games."
"We made Christmas automata toys. We really had to think about what materials would work best for the job."
Skyla-"I enjoyed working in a group to make cheesecake for our menu. I was pleased with the reaction from parents when they came to taste our food. My mum really enjoyed the cheesecake."
Finley-"My mum really enjoyed the pasta."
Our Amazing DT work!