Design & Technology

Design & Technology

D&T: Design and Technology is a practical subject where children are given the opportunity to bring their ideas to life. Design and technology prepares children to engage in tomorrow's rapidly changing technologies. The subject encourages children to become creative problem solvers and thinkers, develops their practical skills with attention to aesthetics, social and environmental issues and develops their awareness of functions of objects and modern industrial practices. It presents children with the opportunities to reflect upon, evaluate and modify present and past design. It helps them to become discerning and informed consumers of products and innovations.

The Aims of School D&T

To enable the children to:

Think imaginatively and talk about what they like and dislike when designing and making
Build on early childhood experiences of investigating objects around them
Explore how familiar things work and talk about, draw and model their ideas
Learn how to design an make safely
Use ICT as part of their designing and making
Work on their own and as part of a team
Think about what products are used for and the needs of people around them.
Plan what has to be done and identify what works well and what could be improved in their own and other people's designs
Draw on knowledge and understanding from other areas of the curriculum and use computers in a range of ways.

Coordinator: Mrs Rawson

Design and Technology Policy

design-and-technology-policy Feb 2021.docx

D&T Objectives

D&T ASSESSMENT

Year 4 Wahaca Trip

Make it after school club......with Mrs Rawson

Autumn 1

This half term in make it club we have been making lots of different things:

Inspiration stones

Spaghetti & marshmallow structures

Penny Spinners

Weaving

Hoop flyers

Board games

We have been thinking about investigating and evaluating our ideas.

Healthy school week- Cookathon!!

The Children's Food Trust Big Cookathon is an annual event where we aim to get the nation cooking and very popular! Each year we invite families to come and cook a healthy meal together. This year was a great success. Thank you to all the families involved this year, we hoped you enjoyed it as much as we did.