Design Technology Curriculum

Intent

At Stanton and Pepper Hill the Design and Technology (DT) curriculum is engaging and challenging. The National Curriculum is followed as a basis for its content and framework. We ensure this inspiring and rigorous subject is practical and imaginative to enable our children to thrive and become world changing innovators and problem solvers.

Our curriculum is designed to give opportunities for the children to work both independently and collaboratively on real and relevant problems. This encourages our children to develop their creativity, innovation and resourcefulness. The cross curricular nature of this subject means that not only are we developing their technical skills for design but also their mathematical, computing, scientific and artistic knowledge and providing a range of exciting contexts for them to apply this knowledge to. We also incorporate one cooking topic within each year group. As cooking is a crucial life skill and is something the children revisit each year to build upon their skills.

Implementation

Our whole school approach to the teaching and learning of DT involves the following:

• Three DT topics taught annually.
• DT is taught in a one-hour lesson each week.
• Lessons are planned using progression maps provided to teachers to ensure skills are clear.
• Each unit follows the same structure; research, learn skills, design, build, test and evaluate.
• Prototypes are created prior to their final build.
• A final project is created in each topic.
• CPD Insets provided to teachers to ensure high quality subject knowledge.

Impact

Our DT curriculum is planned to demonstrate progression year on year. In addition, we measure the impact of our curriculum through the following methods: 

• Monitoring of books
• Pupil voice
• Learning walks
• Staff surveys
• Evaluation of final piece