Purpose of Study
We believe that Design and Technology prepares children to take part in the development of tomorrow’s rapidly changing world. Creative thinking encourages children to make positive changes to their quality of life. The subject encourages children to become autonomous and creative problem-solvers, both as individuals and as part of a team. It enables them to identify needs and opportunities and to respond by developing ideas and eventually making products and systems.
The national curriculum for design and technology aims to ensure that all pupils:
- Develop the creative, technical and practical expertise needed to perform everyday tasks confidently and to participate successfully in an increasingly technological world
- Build and apply a repertoire of knowledge, understanding and skills in order to design and make high-quality prototypes and products for a wide range of users
- Critique, evaluate and test their ideas and products and the work of others
- Understand and apply the principles of nutrition and learn how to cook.
The scheme of learning has a clear progression of substantive knowledge and vocabulary and links to other curriculum subjects. Our curriculum is planned around the following Design Technology concepts: structures, textiles, mechanisms, food.
Progression in disciplinary knowledge (concepts such as design, make, evaluate, technical knowledge, cooking and nutrition) is integrated within the curriculum and developed alongside the substantive knowledge which the children learn each year.
