Our DT curriculum develops creativity, sets challenges, engages and inspires children and equips them with the knowledge and skills to experiment, invent and create their own works of craft and design.
Achievements
We want children to achieve by:
- feeling inspired to be innovative and creative thinkers who have an appreciation for the product design cycle through ideation, creation, and evaluation,
- developing the confidence to take risks, through drafting design concepts, modelling, and testing,
- becoming reflective learners who evaluate their work and the work of others,
- become resourceful, enterprising citizens who will have the skills to contribute to future design advancements,
- accessing a spiral curriculum, with key areas revisited again and again with increasing complexity, allowing pupils to revisit and build on their previous learning.
Choices
To make children aware they have choices through:
- Children can generate and develop their ideas through the three main stages of the design process: design, make and evaluate,
- responding to design briefs and scenarios that require consideration of the needs of others, developing their skills.
Enjoyment
To enjoy DT our children need:
- a range of teaching strategies from independent tasks, paired and group work including practical hands-on, computer-based and inventive tasks,
- lessons are engaging and appeal to those with a variety of learning styles,
- differentiated activities for every lesson to ensure that lessons can be accessed by all pupils and opportunities to stretch pupils’ learning are available when required.