Design and Technology
Design and technology is an inspiring, rigorous and practical subject. Using creativity and imagination, 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.
It’s is about providing opportunities for the children to develop their capability, combing their designing and making skills with knowledge and understanding in order to create quality products.
Our curriculum is categorised in 2 ways:
- Substantive knowledge - which gives pupils the knowledge about the past.
- Disciplinary knowledge- which gives pupils the skills to think and act like historians. This is learning how historians investigate the past, and how they construct historical claims, arguments and accounts.
Our curriculum knowledge is categorised into 4 schema that are revisited and repeated throughout each year group to develop our children’s knowledge and understanding.
Our spiral curriculum enables children to retrieve the disciplinary skills each year and update their working memories by applying them to new concepts in greater depth.
Additionally, our curriculum drivers shape our approach to teaching design technology so that every opportunity is taken to relate this subject to our cohort of children. Design technology is blocked in to each half term throughout the academic year is studied throughout each academic year and across each key stage so that pupils can gain a growing developmental understanding of the skills and knowledge in our curriculum. Each year, children will take part in a workshop or trip, in line with our curriculum driver of first-hand experience, that will further enrich the children’s learning.
Oracy
First Hand Experiences
Belonging
