The Jolly Postman

Design and Technology Task

Charlotte Cheesman Hayley Manger Sabina Miah Beth Perry

Planning

• We worked as a group to brainstorm our story box idea.

• Once we had selected The Jolly Postman we decided to link all three tasks together with a common theme.

• We looked through the book to get ideas for each of the tasks.

Relevance

• We used The Jolly Postman because we could instantly identify lots of different creative ways to incorporate DT.

• The story follows the Postman as he visits many well-known fairy tale characters so we felt we had plenty of scope to use our imaginations!

• All of the tasks that we carried out could be adapted for children to tackle with adult supervision.

Story Box

• As the story centres around letters sent to each of the fairy tale characters and includes actual envelopes within the book, we decided to make our box into an envelope by painting it.

Story Boxmaking things move

• Our moving parts were selected as:

The Postman’s Bike

The Cottage Door

The Beanstalk

Team Work

Creativity

Designing and Making

The second part of our D&T was to design and make a piece of clothing. For this we decided to link it in with the theme of the Jolly Postman and make a Postman's bag. First we did a brainstorm design of what we wanted it to be like. Then we made it…

Postman’s Bag

The Final Product…

Food Technology…

And Finally... We had designed and made biscuits adapting it to our Story Box Theme. We made gingerbread letter biscuits.

Gingerbread Letters

And Enjoy… By