Design Technology Curriculum
At Kingsway Primary School, we aim to provide all children with a rich, broad and balanced curriculum, which prepares them for life beyond primary education. Design Technology is an inspiring, rigorous and practical subject. Our DT curriculum combines skills, knowledge, concepts and values to enable children to tackle real problems thus improving analysis, critical thinking, problem solving, practical and evaluation skills.
Through our DT curriculum, it is our vision that children are inspired by, and learn to become engineers, designers, chefs and architects in order to create a range of structures, mechanisms, textiles, electrical systems and food products with a real life purpose. We believe that high-quality DT lessons (involving the designing, making and evaluating process of products to solve real and relevant problems within a variety of contexts), will inspire children to think independently, innovatively and develop creative, procedural and technical understanding.
It is the vision of Kingsway Primary School that a unit of Design Technology is taught once in each long term (one of these units being related to food) across the academic year. Skills from across the curriculum; mathematics, science, computing and art are applied throughout our Design Technology curriculum and many Design Technology projects link to themes taught, where applicable, to ensure design and technology work is purposeful and relevant. The schools core values of Kindness, Perseverance and Success should also be at the forefront of children’s minds when carrying out practical activities and completing Design Technology projects.
Aims
At Kingsway Primary School, our curriculum for design and technology aims to ensure that all pupils:
- Develop the creative, technical and practical expertise needed to perform everyday tasks confidently and to participate successfully in an increasingly technological world
- Build and apply a repertoire of knowledge, understanding and skills in order to design and make high-quality prototypes and products for a wide range of users
- Critique, evaluate and test their ideas and products and the work of others
- Consider their own and others’ needs, wants and values to think and creatively solve problems as both individuals and members of a team
- Understand and apply the principles of nutrition and learn how to cook
- Reflect upon, and evaluate, past and present designs and technology identifying uses and effectiveness
- Know about great designers and understand the historical and cultural significance of their work