The Curriculum
Design and Technology
The development of Design and Technology capability is important in preparing all pupils for citizenship in an ever increasing technological world. The ability to use technological skills is a vital life skill in modern society. Using these skills in a purposeful way provides the opportunity to extend and enhance teaching and learning experiences in the National Curriculum as a whole.
At each Key Stage a programme of study sets out what pupils should be taught. Lesson content is based upon the QCA scheme of work, but may be adapted to meet the needs of individual classes, or to make links with other subject areas.
In Design and Technology, children acquire and apply knowledge and understanding of materials and components, including food, textiles, resistant and mouldable materials, mechanisms and control systems, structures, quality issues and factors relating to health and safety.
The children will :
- develop their designing and making skills;
- develop knowledge and understanding;
- develop their capability to create products through combining their designing and making skills with knowledge and understanding;
- nurture creativity and innovation through designing and making;
- explore values about and attitudes to the made world and how we live and work within it;
- develop an understanding of technological processes, products and their manufacture and their contribution to our society.