DT

To provide a design and technology curriculum that prepares children for the developing world, encouraging them to be creative problem solvers both individually and as a team.

The D&T curriculum is designed to build on the children's prior learning from previous years and develop skills and knowledge that are revisited and consolidated. The main strands of DT that are taught at Noel Park are structures, textiles and cooking & nutrition, with these being covered across each key stage. Through the study of design and technology children combine practical skills with an understanding of aesthetic, social and environmental issues to design and make a product.  Evaluation is an integral part of the design process and allows children to adapt and improve their product, this is a key skill which they need throughout their life. Design and Technology helps all children to become discriminating and informed consumers and potential innovators.

In the Early Years, children learn about design and technology through play, often structured around current topics they study. The children explore how they can use different materials and techniques to express their ideas and create functional design and technology objects. In Years 1-6, children have a weekly art DT lesson of one and a quarters hours every other half term. In each unit, they are introduced to a new skill and get opportunities to view and appraise examples of designs and technology, as well as being introduced to focus designers. Then the children experience new design and technology techniques and skills to be able to plan for a final masterpiece that they make, display and evaluate.