Design and Technology highlights aspirational curriculum offer
At the most wonderful time of the year, it's not just Santa's elves who have been busy making things. As part of our ever evolving and bespoke curriculum offer, classrooms across Greswold have become design and technology workshops making a range of products from cam toys to seasonal soups.
In Year 6, children were tasked with designing a model of a carousel that could be used for younger children at a fairground ride. Starting the unit by studying two innovators, John Wardley (who has designed rides such as Nemesis at Alton Towers) and Thomas Walker (a local innovator who made fairground rides in the Victorian era, one of his engines being preserved at Blist's Hill where Year 5 visit every year) for their inspiration. Year 6 then went onto design and eventually make their carousels.
The carousels were on display at the recent PTA Christmas fayre for visitors to view and vote for, another strategy for making learning motivating and purposeful.
As you can see below, we have some future designers and innovators in the making!
