Design Technology

Our Design & Technology curriculum empowers our students to solve practical problems using their technical skills and knowledge. Logical and creative, Design & Technology lessons provide important opportunities for children to apply what they’ve learned in Maths, Art and Science lessons.

Our Design & Technology teaching and learning is based on the Cornerstones curriculum, encouraging cross-curricular links within each year group’s topics. Knowledge, skills and understanding are progressively built upon within each of the 3 learning areas: construction, textiles and cooking.

In each of these areas, our students apply the design process: research (studying existing products, evaluating their success at meeting their design intentions and suggesting improvements); design (drawing on what they learned from other products, meeting specified design criteria and within the constraints of available resources); make; and evaluate (testing their product against the design criteria).

More detail on our Design & Technology curriculum can be found in the following documents: DT Intent, Implementation & Impact Statement Design Technology and Design and Technology Progression Map

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