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This unit has been replaced by the unit *New* Structures: Playground pioneers. It will move to our Content archive in February 2027. It will remain permanently available but will not be updated in line with curriculum or website developments.
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Create five apparatus designs, applying the design criteria to their work.
- Make suitable changes to their work after peer evaluation.
- Make roughly three different structures from their plans using the materials available.
- Complete their structures, improving the quality of their rough versions and applying some cladding to a few areas.
- Secure their apparatus to a base.
- Make a range of landscape features using a variety of materials which will enhance their apparatus.
Suggested prior learning
Structure: Bridges
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Lesson plans
Lesson 1: Design a new playground
Lesson 2: Building structures
Lesson 3: Perfecting structures
Lesson 4: Playground landscapes
Key skills
- Designing a playground featuring
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Key knowledge
- To know that structures
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Key vocabulary
apparatus
cladding
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Unit resources
Knowledge organiser – DT Y6: Playgrounds
Aimed at pupils, a single page which gives key facts and definitions from the unit 'Structures: Playgrounds.'
Vocabulary display – D&T Y6: Structures: Playgrounds
A display version of the key vocabulary from the unit 'Playgrounds'.
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Cross-curricular opportunities
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