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Design Technology provides children with a real life context for learning and creativity. Through Design Technology, children should be inspired by engineers, designers, chefs and architects to enable them to create a range of structures, mechanisms, textiles, electrical systems and food products with a real life purpose. All children will acquire appropriate subject knowledge, skills and understanding as set out in the National Curriculum. As an integral part of the Creative Curriculum, strong cross curricular links with other subjects are made to support a schema of learning and understanding including, Mathematics, Science and Computing. Design and Technology will help to prepare children, to give them the opportunities, responsibilities, and experiences they need to be successful in later life.
Our Design Technology Subject Leader is Charley Caine.
All Design Technology teaching follows the design, make and evaluate cycle. Each stage is rooted in technical knowledge and given equal balance. The design process is rooted in real life and relevant contexts and focus topics to give meaning to learning. While making, children are given choice and a range of tools to choose from. To evaluate, children are able to evaluate their own products against a design criteria. Each of these steps is rooted in technical knowledge and vocabulary.
Children will have clear enjoyment and confidence in Design Technology that they will apply to other areas of the curriculum. Through carefully planned and implemented
learning activities the pupils will develop the creative, technical and practical expertise needed to perform everyday tasks confidently and to participate successfully in an increasingly technological world. They will gain a firm foundation of knowledge and skills to see them equipped to take on further learning in school and beyond.
