May 2025

Design and Technology Summer Term project

To start our History unit of work, Year 6 designed and created their own model version of an Anderson Shelter. The children were able to use their measuring, marking and cutting skills from previous learning. They learned about the importance of triangulation brackets to add support to their structure. Knowing that Anderson shelters were built into the ground, some children opted to add camouflage to their fooftops. I was very impressed with how well the children could recall learning and skills from our previous DT units of work. This included the use of circuits to add a LED light.