Design Technology in Year 2

As part of our Science, Design Technology and Wellbeing learning, we have had a wonderful week taking part in lots of activities that focus on healthy eating. After taste testing many combinations of foods from the Eatwell plate, we designed our own wrap ingredient combinations and created a class shopping list. Everyone chose one item of food, such as ham, cheese, tortilla wraps, cucumber or tomatoes to bring in and share with their classmates.

When preparing the ingredients for the wraps, we learned how to cut food by making a bridge with our fingers, grate cheese safely and we made sure that there was enough food for everyone! Once the food was ready, we then followed our designs and created our own wraps. We made sure that we didn’t overfill the wraps, because the trickiest part was folding the wraps up! Hoorah, after our wraps were made, we were able to eat them and one child was heard to say ‘This is even better than Christmas dinner!’

After we had eaten our food, we reviewed our wraps by thinking about how well they met the design brief. Were they healthy and tasty? Did the ingredients come from at least three food groups? What score would you give your wrap? We thought about what we would do differently if we made a second wrap and lots of the children thought that they would try some different ingredients, which is great, because we were able to make a second wrap on the last day of term!