Design & Technology
Subject Leader -
‘A high-quality design and technology education makes an essential contribution to the creativity, culture, wealth and well-being of the nation.’
Intent
Centred around our F.A.M.I.L.Y values, we want all children to develop the creative, technical and practical expertise in every child so that they can perform everyday tasks confidently and participate successfully in an increasingly technological world.
We build a repertoire of knowledge, research and skills in order to design and make high-quality prototypes and products for a wide range of users and differing needs. We ensure children critique, evaluate and test their ideas and products and the work of others. Children also experience the basic principles, knowledge and skills of cooking & nutrition to ensure the principles of nutrition and learn how to cook.
Implementation
Using our Key Lenses and Big Questions, Design & Technology at SAB revisits our key Threads (structures, mechanisms, textiles, cooking & nutrition, digital world, electrical systems) throughout every phase, ensuring that substantive & disciplinary knowledge is progressively sequenced for each of our core Concepts (design, make, evaluate, technical knowledge) so that children know more, remember more and make meaningful connections across their primary school journey.
Teaching is delivered through our six Core Components (Oracy, Retrieval, Modelling, Active Engagement, Progress for all, Feedback) where we provide children with multiple enrichment experiences, including experiences to talk to professionals in fields relevant to the Thread and context being studied
Lenses: Action & Consequence, Change & Continuity, Significance, Similarities & Differences, Environmental & Sustainable Citizenships, Spirituality
Threads: structures, mechanisms, textiles, cooking & nutrition, digital world, electrical systems
Concepts: Design, Make, Evaluate, Technical Knowledge
Impact
Curriculum for L.I.F.E
L: Love of Learning
Through an environment rich with purpose, experiences and knowledge, we foster a love of learning in the world both past and present by exploring technological advances, the needs and wants of people and the world and how we develop and make products to solve them. We embrace the design process and that failure and mistakes are essential to learn and improve.
I: Inspired
Inspire learning in DT by nurturing creativity, hands-on exploration, and problem-solving. Encourage curiosity through fun, practical projects that connect to real life, helping children develop confidence, collaboration and a love for designing and making whilst all the while challenging children to imagine the impossible.
F: Flourished
Children flourish in DT by developing creative, technical, and practical skills through hands-on projects. They explore, design, make, and evaluate with confidence, gaining essential life skills, including cooking and nutrition, while living our FAMILY values in every learning experience.
E: Enriched
Learning is enriched through hands-on experiences that develop creativity, problem-solving, and technical skills through purposeful projects that builds children’s knowledge about people, things and the world around them, including potential future careers.
Organisation & Sequencing
Enrichment
