What shape should your pastry be?

The big task is to design and make a new pastry product for a particular group of people. The product will be based on the children's experience of the traditional jam tart and each child will carry out market research to identify the needs and preferences of their consumers.

These are reports on activities taken by schools around the country. You can download the activities as acrobat files from the resources section

We used Primary Solutions (March 3, 2004)

Two Year 4 classes completed the D&T project "What shape will your pastry be?" over half a term. We completed two whole class sessions per week and in addition had small groups of children going out to the cookery area with Teaching Assistants to make the original jam tarts and then finally, their own designs.

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Pastry products modelled before baking (June 10, 2003)

Modelling the appearance by sketching and play dough really improves the outcome.

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Tasting products (January 2, 2002)

The importance of evaluation