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Y4 End of Year D&T and Outdoor Learning

To finish off an amazing year in Y4, we managed to squeeze in some activities that we had wanted to do in earlier learning journeys but didn’t manage to fit in.

The first was thinking back to our ‘Legendary Legionary’ learning journey, then studying how the Romans developed the use of arches to create stable structures and bridges. We then had a go at creating our own, using just one straight piece of wood and a trapezium template we made ourselves…

The second and third activity linked back in with our ‘Y4 Go Wild’ learning journey, where we created rafts, then floated them at Totley Brook. This built on the raft-building we had previously done in Y2. Many of us were impressed by how our skills had developed in just two years. We even found some crayfish…