Heathrow Primary School
Heathrow Primary School
Year 6
Autumn
As engineers, children will be designing and creating a ‘Steady Hand Game.’ Children learnt to research and analyse a range of children’s toys, design their game thinking about form and function, assemble all their electronics to complete their electronic game and evaluate their game based on their success criteria
Autumn 2
As architects, children will be designing five pieces of playground apparatus using three different structures. With these five apparatus designs then will then apply the design criteria to their work.
Make suitable changes to their work after peer evaluation.
Make roughly three different structures from their plans using the materials available.
Complete their structures, improving the quality of their rough versions and applying some cladding to a few areas.
Secure their apparatus to a base.
Make a range of landscape features using a variety of materials which will enhance their apparatus.
Spring 1
As technologists, children will be navigating the world through a range of technologies. Children will be:
• Writing a design brief from information submitted by a client
• Develop a design based on the clients request.
Children will be able to understand the importance of:
• Sensors in different products
• How the product can function without human input.
• Evaluate how successful they
- Attitude
- Achievement
- Aspiration