Design and Technolgy
Our aim at Hambrough Primary School is offer our pupils a Design and Technology (DT) curriculum that encourages creativity and equips students with the necessary skills to not only come up with brilliant ideas, but to turn those ideas into a reality. We desire to provide a curriculum that complements children’s wider learning and brings it to life in practical terms – from English, Maths and Science, to Computing and Art and Design.
Our curriculum is designed to enable pupils to design and make meaningful products (including food) through their acquisition of specific technical knowledge, skills and understanding in DT.
Our pupils are provided with opportunities to explore existing products and the work of other Designers from whom they can glean inspiration and learn techniques.
We also aim for our pupils to learn about the roles and functions of DT, as they discover the impact it has had on contemporary life and on different periods and cultures.
Our curriculum allows pupils to develop the following disciplinary skills within the domain of Design and Technology:
- Design (developing, planning and communicating ideas)
- Make (working with tools, equipment, materials and components to make quality products)
- Evaluate (evaluating processes and products)
- Technical knowledge (knowledge and understanding)
- Communicate as a designer
The following categories of knowledge are used to support pupil retention of information by fostering the development of schemas:
- Technical knowledge
- Health and safety
- Measuring, making, cutting and shaping
- Assembling, joining and combining
- Materials and components
- Finishing techniques
- Existing products
- Designers
- Context, users and purpose
- Imagine, plan and communicate
- Create, test and improve
Click here to view our Design Technology subject overview