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St Francis Catholic Primary School
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St Francis' Catholic Primary School
Horns Lane, Goosnargh, PR3 2FJ.

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    • PRE-SCHOOL
      • About our Nursery and Pre-School
      • Prospectus
      • 7 Areas of Development
        • Communication & Language
        • Personal, Social & Emotional Development
        • Physical Development
        • Literacy
        • Mathematics
        • Understanding The World
        • Expressive Arts & Design
      • The Land of Pure Imagination
      • Gallery
      • Things you need
    • Pendle – Reception Class
      • Welcome and Meet the Team
      • Gallery and Class Tour
      • Curriculum Learning Overviews and Booklets
      • Homework and Home Learning
    • Parlick – Year 1&2
      • Welcome and Meet the Team
      • Gallery and Class Tour
      • Curriculum Learning Overviews and Booklets
      • Homework and Home Learning
    • Fairsnape – Year 3/4
      • Welcome and Meet the Team
      • Gallery and Class Tour
      • Curriculum Learning Overviews and Booklets
      • Homework and home learning
    • Beacon – Year 5/6
      • Welcome and Meet the Team
      • Gallery and Class Tour
      • Curriculum Learning Overviews and Booklets
      • Homework and Home Learning
  • Faith, RE & HRSE
    • Catholic Life & Mission
      • Catholic Mission Shalom Academy link in Kenya
      • Catholic Mission – LIVING, FEELING, DREAMING
      • Catholic Social Teaching at St. Francis
        • Catholic Social Teaching in action!
        • Fundraising and Charity Work
        • Mission Together
        • CAFOD Club
          • CAFOD KIDS
      • Parish Links
    • Religious Education
      • RE INTENTION WHOLE SCHOOL
      • RE Curriculum Nursery & Pre-School
      • RE Curriculum Reception Class
      • RE Year 1 & 2 Curriculum Sequence Map
      • RE Year 3 & 4 Curriculum Sequence Map
      • RE Year 5 & 6 Curriculum Sequence Map
      • RE Policy
      • Prayer and Liturgy Policy 2023 2024
      • RE Inspection Section 48
    • Collective Worship
    • Wednesday Word
    • RE Inspection Section 48
    • PARENT FEEDBACK
    • HRSE
      • HRSE/RSE
      • HRSE Policy
      • TenTen Parent Portal
    • Catholic Education Service – support and resources
      • Mental Health Resources
      • Laudato Si and Environmental Resources
        • Laudato Si at Home
        • Laudato Si at School
        • Laudato Si Role Models
      • RSE in Catholic Schools
  • Curriculum
    • Nursery/Pre-School Curriculum
    • Reception Class Curriculum
    • Year 1/2 Cycle A
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    • Year 3/4 Cycle A
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    • Year 5/6 Cycle A
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    • English
      • Writing
      • Reading
        • Reading Resources
    • Phonics
      • Phonics and Reading Schemes
    • Maths
      • Maths Progression Maps
      • Maths Progression Maps
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      • Working Scientifically Progression Map
    • History
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    • Art and Design
    • DT
    • Music
    • Computing
    • PE
    • MFL
  • SAFEGUARDING
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    • Early Help
    • WELL-BEING
    • Childrens’ Mental Health and Wellbeing Support
    • Online Safety
    • Safer School App
  • Personal Development and Enrichment
    • CAFOD Club
      • CAFOD KIDS
    • Rabbit Kingdoms and Cluckingdom Palace!
    • The Land of Pure Imagination
    • Tower Wood
    • ST. FRANCIS CLUBS
    • TRIPS AND VISITORS
    • CHILDREN’S QUESTIONNAIRES AND VOICE
    • STORY TIME WITH MR MCGILL
      • BARRY THE FISH WITH FINGERS
      • BARRY AND THE HAIRY SCARY MONSTER
      • GORDON
      • SUPERTATO
      • SUPERTATO AND EVIL PEA
      • THE HIGHWAY RAT
    • GLEE CLUB
      • KID’S ZONE
        • Hold On – The Only Way Is Up!
        • ST.FRANCIS TEAM – ELECTRIC DREAMS!
        • SCHOOL COUNCIL
        • ECO-COUNCIL
        • WHAT MIGHT THE FUTURE HOLD?
        • SCHOOL MAGAZINE
        • CHILDREN’S BLOGS
          • BEACON CLASS BLOGS
        • Gardening
        • Choir
        • Here to Keep You Smiling!

Latest News

Centenary of the Diocese of Lancaster – The Our Lady of Lourdes Statue Tour

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Farm fun and outdoor learning…

Before we broke up, I was delighted to a…

Wheelchair Basketball and Year 3 and 4 Football Tournament

Yesterday, we joined with our friends fr…

Careers Week and Circus School?

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World Book Day, Science Week and Ash Wednesday…

During the past few weeks, so much has h…

Goosnargh Showtime Concert

A heartfelt thank you to every parent, f…

From one great week to the next…

It really is 'one week to the next' when…

A great start to the year…and an MP visit in assembly!

Welcome back to a very happy new school…

Lovely Robins and Advent Sparkle

We are well into our very special Advent…

I’m so sorry-I thought you were being a meet and greet!

The day started at 8.00am without a pair…

Space Week, Bright Futures, canal boats and the arts…

As we come to the end of this half term,…

Season of Creation, Pigeon release and French Day.

Last week, Mr Blair came to school with…

Small school mini skills competition

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Welcome back!

Hello all and a very warm welcome back t…

Three schools together with one vision…connection and mutual respect

Belonging isn’t just a feeling, it’s an…

Parish Garden Day Fun! All invited!

Come along to a church fun day!…

Mesmerised, moving and manners at the bonspiel…

Well,…

A lovely report…for you to read.

On International Day of Happiness, we th…

World Book Day, Science Week, Curling and ONIONS!

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IRON MAN, STORY TELLING, CASTLE TRIP, SAFETY WEEK AND GYMNASTICS CHAMPIONS!

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DT

DT

Welcome to our Design and Technology Page!

WELCOME TO OUR DESIGN TECHNOLOGY PAGE!

INTENT:

St. Francis’ Catholic Primary School understands that D&T allows children to solve problems, think creatively and develop ideas. D&T offers pupils a chance to use creative thinking and activity
within a defined purpose and tangible outcome. It encourages children to make positive changes to their quality of life. We are committed to nurturing pupils’ curiosity and creativity, as well as
preparing them for living in a modern world with rapidly changing and advancing technology.

Design and technology is an inspiring, rigorous and practical subject. Using creativity and imagination, pupils design and make products that solve real and relevant problems within a variety of contexts, considering their own and others’ needs, wants and values. They acquire a broad range of subject knowledge and draw on disciplines such as mathematics, science, engineering, computing and art. Children learn how to take risks, becoming resourceful, innovative, enterprising and capable citizens. Through the evaluation of past and present design and technology, they develop a critical understanding of its impact on daily life and the wider world. High-quality design and technology education makes an essential contribution to the creativity, culture, wealth and well-being of the nation.

Aims
The national curriculum for design and technology aims to ensure that all pupils:
 develop the creative, technical and practical expertise needed to perform everyday tasks confidently and to participate successfully in an increasingly technological world
 build and apply a repertoire of knowledge, understanding and skills in order to design and make high-quality prototypes and products for a wide range of users
 critique, evaluate and test their ideas and products and the work of others
 understand and apply the principles of nutrition and learn how to cook.

Food technology- Healthy Wraps

Year 5 & 6

Designing and making their own playground.

3D Models with moving parts

Parlick created their own Pudding Lane in our Great Fire of London topic.

Textile projects

Pupils have enjoyed practising their design and sewing skills in our recent topics ‘Farming’ and ‘Wind in the Willows’ Pupils in KS1 made their own farm animal finger puppets and Mr Toad Waistcoats.

Some amazing Habitat constructions in response to a homework task.

Fruit-tastic  D.T

KS1 have thoroughly enjoyed exercising their DT skills in their fruit skewers project. Children took part in fruit tasting, planning, designing their fruit skewers. Then using their chopping skills to prepare their fruit and make their skewers finishing with evaluating their design. A wonderful unit that used so many skills and areas of our DT curriculum.

Textiles workshop

We invited a textile specialist into school to lead a textile workshop with our pupils during careers week. What a delightful and insightful experience!

The Great Outdoors

Our D.T. Curriculum doesn’t limit to the indoors we embrace any opportunity to use our D.T. Skills in the great outdoors and our picturesque school grounds. Ks1 and Ks2 have thoroughly enjoyed forest school days led by specialist teachers, teaching pupils how to use cutting tools, building, making fires and cooking.

 

We enrich our D.T. Curriculum setting 3D design and construction activities also cooking activities for homework tasks. The work is outstanding!

We encourage pupils to use DT across the curriculum here pupils have used their engineering and IT skills to build their own Mars rovers.

Year 1 & 2 Have designed and built their own 1666 Houses during our Great Fire of London Topic.

Year 5&6 Space Week: designing satellites to tackle the issue of orbital debris

Food Technology

 

Year 5&6 have designed a healthy balanced meal using the Eatwell plate as a guide. They were even allocated a budget and shopped for their own ingredients!

EYFS enjoyed designing and making their pancakes for pancake day.

Parlick class explored the taste and texture of different fruit and vegetables then created their own fruit smoothies using fruits of their choice.

Year 3 & 4 Creating 3D structures of the Iron Man and pop up books.

Year 5 & 6 designed and created their own Space Rover using Lego coding.

Year 1 & 2 used their D.T. skills to create their own fairy tale story book front covers.

Working with clay in KS1 to create penguins.

Design Technology used in EYFS to create engaging displays.

Cooking and decorating to inspire writing

Amazing automata!

Sewing and Designing

Parlick class have thoroughly enjoyed designing, sewing and decorating their very own Mr Toad jackets in D.T. for our ‘Wind in the Willows’ class topic.

In response to plastic pollution, Fairsnape reused, reduced and recycle to make a school herb garden…

Great Fire of London

Key Stage 1 constructing their own 1666 houses linked to our topic ‘The Great Fire of London’.

Our D.T. and STEM Greenhouse- Professor Sprout’s Greenhouse…

Lego Coding!

Rollercoasters!

 

BEACON FELL GEOGRAPHY AND

STEM DAY

Children in Fairsnape, made their own sandwiches (after learning about healthy eating) and headed up the fell – sandwiches in hand! After filling their stomachs, we set off on a hike, following the map and tracks, the children collected items from their scavenger hunt list. A range of different leaves, sticks and stones were collected along the way as we looked at the signs of Autumn across the beautiful Fell. Staff and children had a great time and learnt so much!

 

NEW FOR SEPTEMBER 2019! LEGO EDUCATION WEDO 2.0 STEM RESOURCE

Combining DT, engineering, computing, science, maths as well as English – this is the way for children to really learn! This is a big investment and move forward in how children access education! Creativity has always been at the core of what we do at St. Francis and we are very excited to  integrate this amazing resource into our curriculum across both KS1 and KS2.

DT POLICY 2019

Our fabulous sailing boats made with recycled materials

 

Rollercoasters

Year 5&6 have been making some fantastic rollercoasters for the theme parks they have been busy planning and designing using their maths skills.

Latest Posts

  • Centenary of the Diocese of Lancaster – The Our Lady of Lourdes Statue Tour 9th May 2025
  • Farm fun and outdoor learning… 7th May 2025
  • Wheelchair Basketball and Year 3 and 4 Football Tournament 27th March 2025
  • Careers Week and Circus School? 23rd March 2025
  • World Book Day, Science Week and Ash Wednesday… 23rd March 2025

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  • ABOUT US
    ▼
    • Mission Statement
    • VISION, VALUES AND AIMS
    • Our School (times, dinners, uniform)
      ▼
      • School Day
      • School Dinners
      • School Uniform
    • Contact
    • Catholic Life at St. Francis’
    • RE Inspection Section 48
    • Meet the Staff
    • Governors
      ▼
      • St. Francis’ Governors
      • Foundation Governors
      • Governor Attendance
    • Prospectus
    • Parish Links
    • Privacy Notices
    • British Values
  • PARENT INFORMATION
    ▼
    • PARENT FEEDBACK
    • Holidays & Term Dates
    • Breakfast and After School Club
    • PTFA
      ▼
      • PTFA Review 2022 2023
      • Social Media Link
      • 50/50 Club
    • Parent Questionnaire
    • What do parents and children think?
    • Admissions and Prospectus
    • Attendance and Working Together
  • SCHOOL INFORMATION
    ▼
    • Ofsted
    • POLICIES
    • SEND
      ▼
      • Special Educational Needs
      • ACCESSIBILITY PLAN
    • Sports Premium
    • Pupil Premium
    • Exam & Assessment Results
    • News
    • REMOTE LEARNING OFFER
    • Newsletters
      ▼
      • Newsletters 2024 2025
      • Newsletters 2023 2024
      • Online Safety Newsletters
    • CONTACT FORM
    • Complaints
    • Financial Benchmarking
  • Headteacher’s Blog
  • CLASS PAGES
    ▼
    • PRE-SCHOOL
      ▼
      • About our Nursery and Pre-School
      • Prospectus
      • 7 Areas of Development
        ▼
        • Communication & Language
        • Personal, Social & Emotional Development
        • Physical Development
        • Literacy
        • Mathematics
        • Understanding The World
        • Expressive Arts & Design
      • The Land of Pure Imagination
      • Gallery
      • Things you need
    • Pendle – Reception Class
      ▼
      • Welcome and Meet the Team
      • Gallery and Class Tour
      • Curriculum Learning Overviews and Booklets
      • Homework and Home Learning
    • Parlick – Year 1&2
      ▼
      • Welcome and Meet the Team
      • Gallery and Class Tour
      • Curriculum Learning Overviews and Booklets
      • Homework and Home Learning
    • Fairsnape – Year 3/4
      ▼
      • Welcome and Meet the Team
      • Gallery and Class Tour
      • Curriculum Learning Overviews and Booklets
      • Homework and home learning
    • Beacon – Year 5/6
      ▼
      • Welcome and Meet the Team
      • Gallery and Class Tour
      • Curriculum Learning Overviews and Booklets
      • Homework and Home Learning
  • Faith, RE & HRSE
    ▼
    • Catholic Life & Mission
      ▼
      • Catholic Mission Shalom Academy link in Kenya
      • Catholic Mission – LIVING, FEELING, DREAMING
      • Catholic Social Teaching at St. Francis
        ▼
        • Catholic Social Teaching in action!
        • Fundraising and Charity Work
        • Mission Together
        • CAFOD Club
          ▼
          • CAFOD KIDS
      • Parish Links
    • Religious Education
      ▼
      • RE INTENTION WHOLE SCHOOL
      • RE Curriculum Nursery & Pre-School
      • RE Curriculum Reception Class
      • RE Year 1 & 2 Curriculum Sequence Map
      • RE Year 3 & 4 Curriculum Sequence Map
      • RE Year 5 & 6 Curriculum Sequence Map
      • RE Policy
      • Prayer and Liturgy Policy 2023 2024
      • RE Inspection Section 48
    • Collective Worship
    • Wednesday Word
    • RE Inspection Section 48
    • PARENT FEEDBACK
    • HRSE
      ▼
      • HRSE/RSE
      • HRSE Policy
      • TenTen Parent Portal
    • Catholic Education Service – support and resources
      ▼
      • Mental Health Resources
      • Laudato Si and Environmental Resources
        ▼
        • Laudato Si at Home
        • Laudato Si at School
        • Laudato Si Role Models
      • RSE in Catholic Schools
  • Curriculum
    ▼
    • Nursery/Pre-School Curriculum
    • Reception Class Curriculum
    • Year 1/2 Cycle A
    • Year 1/2 Cycle B
    • Year 3/4 Cycle A
    • Year 3/4 Cycle B
    • Year 5/6 Cycle A
    • Year 5/6 Cycle B
    • English
      ▼
      • Writing
      • Reading
        ▼
        • Reading Resources
    • Phonics
      ▼
      • Phonics and Reading Schemes
    • Maths
      ▼
      • Maths Progression Maps
      • Maths Progression Maps
    • Science
      ▼
      • Working Scientifically Progression Map
    • History
    • Geography
    • Art and Design
    • DT
    • Music
    • Computing
    • PE
    • MFL
  • SAFEGUARDING
    ▼
    • Safeguarding
    • Parents & Family Support
    • Early Help
    • WELL-BEING
    • Childrens’ Mental Health and Wellbeing Support
    • Online Safety
    • Safer School App
  • Personal Development and Enrichment
    ▼
    • CAFOD Club
      ▼
      • CAFOD KIDS
    • Rabbit Kingdoms and Cluckingdom Palace!
    • The Land of Pure Imagination
    • Tower Wood
    • ST. FRANCIS CLUBS
    • TRIPS AND VISITORS
    • CHILDREN’S QUESTIONNAIRES AND VOICE
    • STORY TIME WITH MR MCGILL
      ▼
      • BARRY THE FISH WITH FINGERS
      • BARRY AND THE HAIRY SCARY MONSTER
      • GORDON
      • SUPERTATO
      • SUPERTATO AND EVIL PEA
      • THE HIGHWAY RAT
    • GLEE CLUB
      ▼
      • KID’S ZONE
        ▼
        • Hold On – The Only Way Is Up!
        • ST.FRANCIS TEAM – ELECTRIC DREAMS!
        • SCHOOL COUNCIL
        • ECO-COUNCIL
        • WHAT MIGHT THE FUTURE HOLD?
        • SCHOOL MAGAZINE
        • CHILDREN’S BLOGS
          ▼
          • BEACON CLASS BLOGS
        • Gardening
        • Choir
        • Here to Keep You Smiling!