DT, Nursery

Being Creative - Responding to Experiences, Expressing and Communicating Ideas

  • Capture experiences and responses with music, dance, paint and other materials or words.
  • Develop preferences for forms of expression.
  • Explore and experience using a range of senses and movement.
  • Use language and other forms of communication to share the things they create, or to indicate personal satisfaction or frustration.

Exploring Media and Materials

  • Create 3D structures.
  • Use their bodies to explore texture and space.
  • Begin to construct, stacking blocks vertically and horizontally, making enclosures and creating spaces.
  • Begin to be interested in and describe the texture of things.
  • Explore colour and begin to differentiate between colours.
  • Differentiate marks and movements on paper.
  • Understand that they can use lines to enclose a space, and then begin to use these shapes to represent objects.

Topic Overview
Term 1

  • Design and make fruit smoothies
  • Uses equipment showing a range of basic skills.
  • Understand the importance of healthy eating.

Term 2

  • Design and make a jointed caterpillar
  • Can observe, select and manipulate objects and materials.
  • Asks questions about why things happen and how things work.

Term3

  • Design and make a vehicle for Barnaby to travel in
  • Can observe, select and manipulate objects and materials.
  • Asks questions about why things happen and how things work.