Design and Technology in Year 3 - Beautiful Boxes and Christmas Cards

Date: 14th Dec 2023 @ 11:59am

Over the last few days, Year 3 has taken part in Design and Technology Week.

Design and Technology is the study of designing and creating a product for someone to use.

This term, Year 3 has focussed on Shell Structures. A shell structure is another name for a frame or net that creates 3-D shapes such as a cube, cuboid, pyramid, tetrahedron, prism and cylinder.   A 3-D shape is made up of different 2-D shapes such as squares, rectangles, triangles and circles.

The children were challenged to design and make a brilliant box.  The box comes with a small Christmas gift inside, for a member of the family.

The children worked brilliantly together; helping each other with their DT skills such as measuring, cutting, joining, scoring, folding and assembling.  They showed great perseverance throughout the whole process and their skills were clearly improving during each part of the design and construction process.

Here is what the children thought.

“Sticking the tabs was tricky at first then I mastered it.”

“Assembling the cube was hard and then I managed to construct it.”

“I used lots of decorations as I was making my box. I felt happy with the final product.”

“When I was scoring and folding it took a few goes to get it right.”

“I am so proud of my product.”

“Somebody helped me fold and attach my tabs so I could assemble my box.”

“I liked the accurate cutting, especially the end of my finger…OUCH!”

“The prototype was hard but good practise for the final product.”

“I showed perseverance, friendship and courage.”

As Design and Technology subject leader, I am so proud that D & T continues to develop at Wardley. The children have and created some amazing products; building on the skills that they were mastering previously.

Alongside this, the children used these skills to create some rather stunning Christmas cards.  The cards come with a 20-year guarantee so will look amazing on the fireplace this Christmas and in many more to come.

This has been a wonderful end to a really great term.  We all need a good break but I cannot wait to see you all in January.

Meanwhile, have a look at all the photographs of our class to show the design process and their amazing final product.

Have a wonderful Christmas holiday.

Lots of love

Mr T X