Design & Technology 

INTENT

• Our Design Technology curriculum encompasses the 4I’s and is rooted alongside the school ERIC values
• Our pupils are from a diverse and aspirational community. Our D&T curriculum inspires our pupils to use their creativity and imagination.
• Our pupils design and make products that solve real and relevant problems within a variety of contexts, considering their own and others’ needs, wants and values.
• Our curriculum enables our pupils to build on their D&T knowledge and experience from Key Stage 1.
• Our pupils learn how to take risks, become resourceful, innovative, enterprising and capable citizens.
• We use an interleaved approach by allowing our children to learn two or more related concepts or skills, whilst also developing an enjoyment in learning about products and achieving success in their own creations.
• Through the evaluation of past and present design and technology, they develop a critical understanding of its impact on daily life and the wider world.
• The D&T curriculum promotes inclusion by giving the opportunity to every pupil to develop their ability to be independent thinkers. This empowers them to be enthusiastic which equips our students with the skills to become resourceful, and innovative
• D&T is integrated and with other NC subjects including mathematics, science, art and computing which enables sticky learning
• Cooking and nutrition will be a key focus within our D&T curriculum. Pupils will learn how to cook and apply the principles of nutrition and healthy eating. This links with the school’s healthy living and healthy eating drive.

IMPLEMENTATION

• The D&T NC objectives are organised so that the build on pupil’s prior knowledge, understanding and skills, therefore making learning memorable and transferable.
• Our teaching and learning of D&T is implemented by using the Kapow scheme of work (linked to NC) which has been adapted to incorporate DeBono philosophy of learning and Bloom’s taxonomy- this enables all pupils to access the D&T objectives thus an inclusive curriculum.
• Within each year group there is a food technology topic focusing on cooking and nutrition. This is interleaved with the school’s healthy living and healthy eating drive.
• Through creative and practical activities, our D&T curriculum teaches our pupils the knowledge, understanding and skills needed to engage in the process of designing and making. They work in a range of relevant context.
• For those pupils who have additional needs – an interleaving, augmented D&T curriculum is provided allowing our pupils to develop D&T skills and access D&T knowledge.
• D&T is integrated with STEM and other NC subjects.

IMPACT

• Our pupils:

- Develop the ability to be independent thinkers empowering them to become innovators of the future.

- Pupils will have clear enjoyment and confidence in design and technology that they will apply to other areas of the NC.

- Pupils will ultimately know more; remember more and understand more about D&T, demonstrating their knowledge, understanding and skills in a range of context.

- Pupils will confidently use the iterative process of designing, making and evaluating their work.

- Pupils will understand and apply the principles of a healthy and varied diet, when cooking predominately savoury dishes.  

• Outcomes of the assessment of D&T demonstrates the majority of our pupils are working at or above their age group across the school.