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"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! 

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