Design and technology is an integral part of the curriculum for every year group and skills will be taught progressively through carefully planned vertical and horizontal links to enable children to build on and apply previously taught skills to new projects.
Our Curriculum is taught through a range of contexts, such as: imaginary, story-based, home, school, gardens, playgrounds, local community, industry and wider environment.
Two projects per year group allows teaching and learning in D.T to be rigorous and deep.
Through each Design and Technology project children will become experts in the field, using the D.T lens as they:
- Are taught new skills, knowledge and vocabulary
- Apply and develop these skills and technical knowledge
- Showcase their skills to design, make an “expert outcome”
- Apply their prior knowledge and the evaluative strand of the D.T lens to evaluate a final product, approaching this through our school ethos of being kind, specific, helpful and resilient critics.
Research shows that teacher’s pedagogical and subject knowledge has a huge impact on pupil’s achievements and we have therefore harvested the expertise of the D.T association to construct units of learning that:
- Provide teachers with the in depth substantive and disciplinary knowledge required to ensure effective teaching and learning and facilitate children to produce an “expert outcome.”
- Follow a consistent and non-negotiable structure across the whole school of planning and delivering each unit of learning.
- Ensure opportunities for vertical, horizontal and diagonal links to be retrieved and explicitly referred to by teachers and learners.
- Use the D.T lens to inform a balanced and professional approach to Design and Technology.
