Design and Technology
We aim to provide children with a DT education that is relevant in our rapidly changing world and a curriculum that embodies our school intent: we intend to provide a wide range of inclusive opportunities, that ensure our children have a secure body of knowledge which enables them to lead life with the highest of aspirations. Design and Technology provides our children with an opportunity to tackle problems of a practical nature. Working with a variety of materials aims to help children learn important life skills. children learn independently and in groups, learning to cooperate, plan, design and make and evaluate their work. They learn to make their own decisions with help and encouragement through interactive lessons.
Through our design and technology curriculum, we aspire for our pupils to be unusually brave and think critically. We aim to provide opportunities for pupils to discover what is possible through designing and making innovative products. We strive to push the limits and ask children to use their research to design and make creative products and want our pupils to be problems solvers.
Our Design and Technology curriculum will enable pupils to:
Conduct research and look at similar models.
Acquire skills of cutting, making, constructing, gluing and making
Create detailed designs with annotations for products they will make
Review designs and create final designs
Use Computer Aided Design
Evaluate their products
Develop their knowledge of products and designers
Consider the impact of products on the environment
Explore audience, purpose and function
Understand the importance of aesthetics when designing products
Implementation - How is this curriculum delivered?
To teach Design Technology we follow the National Curriculum and this is taught using resources from Kapow, which give various 4-6 week topics of study. Each unit develops pupils in the key areas of the subject:
DT:
Design
Make
Evaluate
Technical knowledge
