year: Year 1

Teacher video: The Zoroastrian worldview

This Religion and worldviews video introduces key beliefs and practices from the Zoroastrian worldview.

Teacher video: Designing and making a pull-along toy

This Design and technology video introduces teachers to the final stage of the mechanisms unit, supporting children in exploring users, criteria, annotated plans and recycled material construction and evaluating their own pull-along toys.

Teacher video: Making better wheels: Part 2

This Design and technology video introduces teachers to the next stage in improving wheel and base design, preparing them to support Year 1 pupils in creating smoother, more stable moving models.

Teacher video: Making better wheels: Part 1

This Design and technology video supports teachers to help Year 1 children improve wheel designs by building cutting skills, adjusting centres and exploring axles in this moving mechanisms teaching video.

Teacher video: Designing and making a pull-along toy

Covering lessons four and five, this CPD video supports teachers to help children apply their knowledge and build and evaluate a toy.

Teacher video: Improving wheels: Part two

This Design and technology video supports Year 1 teachers with modelling techniques to improve wheel and axle mechanisms, helping the children create stable, moving bases for future pull-along toy designs.

Teacher video: Using weight to stabilise structures

This Design and technology CPD video supports teachers with clear guidance and modelling to deliver a Year 1 lesson on stabilising structures using weight, as the children build and test a model playground basketball hoop.

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