Term 1 

Term 2 

Term 3 

Term 4 

Term 5 

Term 6 

Year 1  

Developing cutting and joining skills 

Selecting seasonal vegetables to make soup 

Using cutting and joining skills to make rockets, poppies and Christmas decorations 

Building habitable structures 

Evaluating existing products 

Building a waterproof bird hide 

Developing cooking skills - making Scottish biscuits 

Using folding skills to make flip books 

Generating ideas and designs for alternative uses for toilet roll tubes 

Generate ideas and designing menus and sandwiches for a celebratory picnic 

Exploring and applying the mechanism of a slider to make an interactive page for a book 

Evaluating boat design for strength and stability 

Apply knowledge to design and build a small boat for water play. 

Generate ideas, design and make objects from recycled materials 

Year 2 

Structures 

Baby Bear’s chair 

Mechanisms  

Fairground wheel

Mechanisms  

Making moving monsters 

Year 3 

Digital World Wearable technology 

Structures 

Constructing a castle  

Cooking and Nutrition 

Eating seasonally 

Year 4 

Structures Helmets or pavilions 

Mechanical systems 

Mechanical cars or making a slingshot car 

Electrical systems  

Torches  

Year 5 

Electrical systems Wobble bots or doodlers 

Mechanical systems  

Gear and pulleys or making a pop-up book 

Cooking and Nutrition 

Developing a recipe  

Year 6 

Textiles 

Bags or waistcoats 

Structures 

Playgrounds 

Digital world  

Navigating the world