Design Technology

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.

Art & Technology KS2

Art & Technology KS3

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:

Year 5

Year 6

Year 7

Year 8