Design & Technology
DT Subject Lead – Miss Collins
Our DT Vision
Design Technology is a creative and practical subject, allowing children opportunities to be critical thinkers, using their knowledge and understanding to create purposeful products. Children are encouraged to think about the effectiveness of their designs and begin to adapt these.
We follow the process outlined in the national curriculum –
Design
Make
Evaluate
This process allows children to create designs by following a real life sequence of thinking. Children are also guided to consider: user, purpose, functionality, design decisions, innovation and authenticity.
Within DT, we teach one unit per term and we follow the National Curriculum. We follow our own version of the ‘Kapow’ scheme. This is adapted to suit our school and learners. We cover a range of key skills over a two-year sequence.
Skills –
Structure
Mechanisms
Food and nutrition
Electrical systems
Textiles units
Digital World
Where it is appropriate, our learning is linked to what we are studying across the curriculum. This allows us to draw on prior knowledge and understanding.
| Year Band | Autumn Unit | Spring Unit | Summer Unit |
| Year 1 | Explorers Structures – constructing a windmill | Toys Textiles - Puppets | Our wonderful world Cooking and nutrition – fruit + veg |
| Year 2 | Great British events Structures – Baby bears chair | The Gruffalo Mechanisms – making a moving monster | Amazing Africa Cooking and nutrition – A balanced diet |
| Year 3 | Rumble in the jungle Cooking and Nutrition – Eating Seasonally | Stone Age Mechanical Systems – Pneumatic Toys | Ancient Egypt Textiles – Cross stitch and applique (Egyptian collars) |
| Year 4 | WW2 Electrical Systems - Torches | Disappearing world Cooking and nutrition – Adapting a recipe | Romans Structure – Pavilions |
| Year 5 | We are discoverers Textiles – Stuffed Toys | Space Cooking and nutrition – What could be healthier? | Ancient Greece Mechanical systems – Popup book |
| Year 6 | What the dickens Cooking and nutrition – come dine with me | Extreme Earth Structure – Playgrounds | Wonders of the World Electrical Systems – Steady Hand Game |