What is the purpose of our curriculum?
Love to Learn
- Design and Technology involves applying knowledge and skills when designing and making products.
- The activities undertaken enable pupils to consider the needs of individuals and society.
- Pupils in all year groups work in the areas of Resistant Materials and Food and use a range of materials and processes.
Learn to Live
- Pupils are provided with a varied Design Technology curriculum which enables pupils to develop skills for life.
- The curriculum is designed to encourage pupils to solve problems Creative Thinker.
- Pupils work independently and as part of a team - Self Manager, Team Worker.
- The schemes of work give pupils opportunities to research - Independent Enquirer and evaluate - Reflective Learner.
Live to Love
- Pupils appreciate that there are alternative viewpoints to their own in offering design solutions so they respect diversity – Tolerance, Thankfulness.
- We want pupils to have ambitions and to grow up wanting to be to apply knowledge and skills to appropriately technological and design careers – Aspiration.
Learning Journals indicate the progress that a pupil can make within a subject. These do not compare children’s progress with each other but considers their progress against specific statements. The Learning Journals for this subject are: