Design Technology

DREAM, BELIEVE, LOVE, WORK, ACHIEVE

Design and Technology

We want our pupils to love design & technology.  We want them to have no limits to what their ambitions are and grow up wanting to be carpenters, architects, graphic designers, or chefs!

Kapow

We use Kapow's Primary Design and Technology Scheme.

Through Kapow Primary’s Design and Technology scheme, pupils respond to design briefs and scenarios that require consideration of the needs of others, developing their skills in six key areas: -

• Mechanisms
• Structures
• Textiles
• Food
• Electrical Systems (KS2)
• Digital World (KS2)

Each of our key areas follows the design process (design, make and evaluate) and has a particular theme and focus from the technical knowledge or cooking and nutrition section of the curriculum. Our scheme is a spiral curriculum, with key areas revisited again and again with increasing complexity, allowing pupils to revisit and build on their previous learning. Lessons incorporate a range of teaching strategies from independent tasks, paired and group work including practical hands-on, computer-based and inventive tasks.

Knowledge organisers for each unit support pupils in building a foundation of factual knowledge by encouraging recall of key facts and vocabulary.