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Design & Technology

Our Design & Technology Lead is Mrs James

Intent

 

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

 

Implementation

 

Teaching Objectives

National Curriculum 2014 Subject content:

 

EYFS

Within the Early Years framework, design and technology enables children to gain knowledge and understanding of their world through first-hand experiences. Through open opportunities, Reception children will be encouraged to explore, observe, solve problems and think critically when constructing with different mediums. Children can create collaboratively, sharing ideas, resources and skills within the medium of play.

 

Key Stage 1

Through a variety of creative and practical activities, pupils should be taught the knowledge, understanding and skills needed to engage in an iterative process of designing and making. They should work in a range of relevant contexts [for example, the home and school, gardens and playgrounds, the local community, industry and the wider environment]. When designing and making, pupils should be taught to:

 

Design

  • design purposeful, functional, appealing products for themselves and other users based on design criteria
  • generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through talking, drawing, templates, mock-ups and, where appropriate, information and communication technology

 

Make

  • select from and use a range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks [for example, cutting, shaping, joining and finishing]
  • select from and use a wide range of materials and components, including construction materials, textiles and ingredients, according to their characteristics

 

Evaluate

  • explore and evaluate a range of existing products
  • evaluate their ideas and products against design criteria

 

Technical knowledge

  • build structures, exploring how they can be made stronger, stiffer and more stable
  • explore and use mechanisms [for example, levers, sliders, wheels and axles], in their products.

 

Key Stage 2

Through a variety of creative and practical activities, pupils should be taught the knowledge, understanding and skills needed to engage in an iterative process of designing and making. They should work in a range of relevant contexts [for example, the home, school, leisure, culture, enterprise, industry and the wider environment]. When designing and making, pupils should be taught to:

 

Design

  • use research and develop design criteria to inform the design of innovative, functional, appealing products that are fit for purpose, aimed at particular individuals or groups
  • generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through discussion, annotated sketches, cross-sectional and exploded diagrams, prototypes, pattern pieces and computer-aided design

 

Make

  • select from and use a wider range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks [for example, cutting, shaping, joining and finishing], accurately
  • select from and use a wider range of materials and components, including construction materials, textiles and ingredients, according to their functional properties and aesthetic qualities

 

Evaluate

  • investigate and analyse a range of existing products
  • evaluate their ideas and products against their own design criteria and consider the views of others to improve their work
  • understand how key events and individuals in design and technology have helped shape the world

 

Technical knowledge

  • apply their understanding of how to strengthen, stiffen and reinforce more complex structures
  • understand and use mechanical systems in their products [for example, gears, pulleys, cams, levers and linkages]
  • understand and use electrical systems in their products [for example, series circuits incorporating switches, bulbs, buzzers and motors]
  • apply their understanding of computing to program, monitor and control their products.

 

Cooking and Nutrition

 

As part of their work with food, pupils should be taught how to cook and apply the principles of nutrition and healthy eating. Instilling a love of cooking in pupils will also open a door to one of the great expressions of human creativity. Learning how to cook is a crucial life skill that enables pupils to feed themselves and others affordably and well, now and in later life. Pupils should be taught to:

 

EYFS

 

Within the ‘knowledge and understanding of the world’ area of the Early Years curriculum, pupils will be exposed to new experiences and senses, practising a wide range of skills, giving them an understanding of food and where it all comes from. For example, children will learn to take turns stirring ingredients for a cake, and then watch with fascination as it rises whilst cooking.  They will hone their fine motor skills by mixing, pouring and blending during cooking and learn how to evaluate by using their senses when trying the finished product.

 

Key stage 1

  • use the basic principles of a healthy and varied diet to prepare dishes
  • understand where food comes from.

 

Key stage 2

  • understand and apply the principles of a healthy and varied diet
  • prepare and cook a variety of predominantly savoury dishes using a range of cooking techniques
  • understand seasonality, and know where and how a variety of ingredients are grown, reared, caught and processed.

 

Planning

Teachers from Foundation Stage to Year 6 will plan to ensure full coverage of the skills relating to the Design and Technology section of the National Curriculum for that year group throughout the year.

 

Assessment, Recording & Reporting

As in all other areas of the curriculum, assessment is an integral part of the teaching process. Class teachers should keep records of work carried out through the use of sketchbooks, examples of work and photographs. Formative assessment is used to guide the progress of individual pupils in D&T. It involves identifying each child’s progress in each aspect of the curriculum, determining what each child has learned and what should therefore be the next step in their learning. Formative assessment is carried out informally by the teachers in the course of their teaching.

Children’s progress in Design & Technology is reported to parents through the pupil annual report and verbally at termly consultation meetings.

 

Impact

 

Monitoring

Teaching and Learning for D&T is monitored through learning walks, displays, book looks, photographic evidence and Pupil Voice.

 

Health & Safety

Children should be working in a safe environment, both in and out of the classroom. Risk assessments should be raised when using sharp or hazardous tools / resources. Allergies considered with at risk products. Use of sharp or dangerous tools, such as saws, should be used in 1:1 adult guided groups. Where appropriate, teachers should consider voluntary adult helpers to increase capacity for making phases of learning.

Dinosaur Mechanisms in EYFS, Term 2 2023

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Term 4 Chartwells Cooking Workshops 2023-24

2022 - Upper Key Stage 2

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2022 - Key Stage 1

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Term 2 Dates: 4th November 2024 to 20th December 2024
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