1st XV beat Marlborough
1st XV beat Marlborough
Children are encouraged to think creatively about rapidly changing technologies and how they can influence them during their weekly DT and Engineering lessons.
Working as individuals, in pairs and as part of a team, our pupils are challenged to identify needs, wants and opportunities – and to respond to them by forming ideas, developing them and making high-quality products. Through the use of the right technology and specialist teaching, they can become discerning, innovative and informed designers and productor developers.
Starting in Year 3 and Year 4, the children focus on DT – the skills they are going to need, the equipment that might be used and the process involved in creating a high-quality outcome. In Year 5 and Year 6 the emphasis shifts to Engineering, where more of a problem-solving mindset becomes the focus. By following a five-step cyclical process of ‘Imagine – Plan – Create – Improve – Ask’, our pupils quickly realise that failure does not matter – and that it is the skill of learning from mistakes/refining which they discover along the way which will help them make the greatest impact on this ever-changing world in the future.
Blundell’s Preparatory School has a light, modern, well-resourced DT room, which offers an excellent environment in which the children can be both confident and innovative learners.
Aims of the Engineering and DT Department
1st XV beat Marlborough
The Educational Quality inspection reports on the quality of the school’s work. It focuses on the two key outcomes: - The achievement of the pupils, including their academic development, and - The personal development of the pupils. In both, the school was graded as EXCELLENT, the highest grade that may be awarded.
Christmas Market raises money for Balloons Charity
Blundell’s School announces new Director of Cricket Dean Headley
Blundell’s provide support to local community
This year’s Blundell’s One Day Event took place once again at the stunning Pontispool Equestrian Centre, near Taunton.
Our Head of Pre-Prep, Mrs Clifford, hosts a sell out community event at Tiverton Library
Music ignites all areas of child development and skills, including intellectual, social, emotional and motor language. It enhances good concentration and develops listening skills so that the child can achieve academically in all areas of the curriculum.
The children cannot wait to put on their Wellington boots to get outside to ‘play’ each week, but what are the benefits of this ‘Forest School fad’?! Is there really any value in climbing trees, lighting fires and creating mud pies?! Where is the learning?!