Great Fire of London Houses

We have had another successful Design & Technology session today. The children have previously created prototypes, reviewed them and learnt how to measure, saw and join wood correctly in order to create timber frames for the models.

They are now at the stage of creating their actual models and everything is coming along nicely. Here are a few pictures to demonstrate.

Great Fire of London Houses

An Afternoon of sawing and gluing

Our topic this half term is "Back in Time" so we have been looking at many different items over the last few weeks. The one aspect that has really caught the children's imagination and interest though has been The Great Fire of London. They loved it so much Mrs Esser and myself had to amend the plans so we could do more of it.

In Design and Technology we decided we wanted to build model houses from 1666, the time of the great fire, and have doors and windows that would open. After completing the planning and prototype stages we are now building the actual model houses. Some of these models will have a wooden structure so we have been linking in our Numeracy to measure the wood accurately in order to cut and glue the pieces the best we can.

Photos will follow shortly.