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Learning

Design Technology

 

Aims of DT at St Stephen's

At St Stephen’s CE Primary School, we believe that design technology prepares children to take part in the development of tomorrow’s rapidly changing world. Creative thinking encourages children to make positive changes to their quality of life. The subject encourages children to become autonomous and creative problem-solvers, both as individuals and as part of a team. It enables them to identify needs and opportunities and to respond by developing ideas and making products and systems.

 

Objectives:

  • To develop imaginative thinking in children and to enable them to talk about what they like and dislike when designing and making;
  • To enable children to talk about how things work, and to draw and model their ideas;
  • To encourage children to select appropriate tools and techniques for making a product, whilst following safe procedures;
  • To explore attitudes towards the made world and how we live and work within it;
  • To develop an understanding of technological processes, products, and their manufacture, and their contribution to our society;
  • To foster enjoyment, satisfaction and purpose in designing and making.

 

Implementation of Policy

 

At  St Stephen’s CE Primary School, through the study of design and technology children combine practical skills with an understanding of aesthetic, social and environmental issues. This allows them to reflect on and evaluate present and past design and technology, its uses and its impacts.

 Design and technology helps all children to become discriminating and informed consumers and potential innovators.

 We have used the best research to create a well sequenced and progressive curriculum map, containing the key concepts children need to be procedurally fluent in, to work and think like professional design technologists.

Curriculum map

Year Group

Autumn 1

Autumn 2

Spring 1

Spring 2

Summer 1

Summer 2

Nursery

All About Me! -Autumn

Traditional Tales

My home

Weather Wonders!

Weather
 Chinese New Year

The Great Outdoors

Weather, seasons

The World: Amazing Animals

Going Places!  transport, comparing Spain to the UK seaside

Reception

Where we live - myself

Where we live – my house.

 

Where we live – West Bowling

Living memory

When I was little

Living Memory

Growth

The World: Map of the UK

 

Asia – China


Compare China to the UK

 

Look at different styles of buildings, weather

Year 1

Where we live – West Bowling & my street

Where we live – West Bowling & my neighbourhood

Captain Moore

Rosa Parks

Africa

Africa – a country of choice

Year 2

Where we live – Bradford – Our city

Where we live – Bradford – contrasting areas in Bradford

Queen Victoria

Neil Armstrong

Antarctica

Antarctica – a country of choice

 

 

Year 3

Haworth (class name study)

 

UK - cities

N/A

N/A

N/A

Australia

Australasia

Year 4

Uk -Countries

Uk- Capital cities

Anglo Saxons settlement and migration

Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the Kingdom of England

 

Europe – Area or city, compare to UK one

Paris compared to UK

 

Europe - a country of choice  compared to UK

Italy compared to Uk

Year 5

Europe – main countries – map skills

Europe –human and physical features comparison

 

Ancient

Egyptians

Ancient

Greece

North America - as a whole

North America – a country of choice -

Year 6

N/A

West Bowling – industrial revolution

 

Mayan

WW2

 

N/A

South America - come and visit? Protect the place?!

National Curriculum Coverage  

Key Stage 1

 

By the end of Key Stage 1, through a variety of creative and practical activities, pupils should be taught the knowledge, understanding and skills needed to engage in an iterative process of designing and making. They should work in a range of relevant contexts [for example, the home and school, gardens and playgrounds, the local community, industry and the wider environment].

 

During Key Stage 1, when designing and making, pupils should be taught to:

 

Design

 

 

Coverage at St Stephen’s

Design purposeful, functional, appealing products for themselves and other users based on design criteria

Year 1 – Aut 1 & Aut 2- West Bowling- My street and neighbourhood

Year 1- Spr 1 & Spr 2- Captain Moore and Rosa Parks

Year 1- Sum2-Africa

Year 2 –  Aut 1 and Aut 2

Year 2- Spr 1 and Spr 2

Year 2- Sum1

Generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through talking, drawing, templates, mock-ups and, where appropriate, information and communication technology

Year 1 –  Aut 2- West Bowling- My Neighbourhood

Year 1- Spr 1- Captain Moore

Year 2 - Aut 2

Year 2- Spr2

Year 2- Sum1

 

Make

 

 

Coverage at St Stephen’s

select from and use a range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks [for example, cutting, shaping, joining and finishing]

Year 1 – Aut 1 & Aut 2 - West Bowling- My street and my neighbourhood

Year 1-Spr1- captain Moore

Year 2 – Spr 1

Year2- Sum1

select from and use a wide range of materials and components, including construction materials, textiles and ingredients, according to their characteristics

Year 1 – Aut 2- My neighbourhood

Year 1- Spr2- Rosa Parks

Year 1- Sum1-Africa

Year 2 – Aut 1

Year 2- Spr 1 and Spr 2

Year 2- Sum1 and Sum 2

 

 

 

Evaluate

 

 

Coverage at St Stephen’s

explore and evaluate a range of existing products

Year 1 –Spr2- Rosa Parks

Year 1- Sum1- Africa

Year 2 – Aut 1

Year 2- Spr 1

Year 2- Sum1 and Sum2

evaluate their ideas and products against design criteria

Year 1 – Aut 1 & Aut 2 - West Bowling- My street  and neighbourhood

Year 1- Spr 1- and Spr 2- Captain Moore and Rosa Parks

Year 1- Sum2- Africa

Year 2 – Aut 1 and Aut 2

Year 2- Spr1

Year 2- Sum 2

 

 

Technical Knowledge

 

 

Coverage at St Stephen’s

build structures, exploring how they can be made stronger, stiffer and more stable

Year 1 – Aut2- West Bowling- my neighbourhood

Year 1- Sum1- Africa

Year 2 – Aut 2

Year 2- Spr2

Year 2 – Sum 2

explore and use mechanisms [for example, levers, sliders, wheels and axles], in their products.

Year 1 – Aut2- West Bowling- my neighbourhood

Year2- Aut 1

Year 2- Spr 1

Year 2- Sum1

 

 

 

 

Strand developments across the St Stephen’s 

Accordion content

Links to developing English and maths 

Accordion content

Assessment statements  

Within each of our units of learning, there will be details of the assessment statements that pupils and staff use in design technology

Cultural Capital

Accordion content

Additional school activities to enhance the curriculum 

Accordion content

Vocabulary development 

Within each of our units of learning, there will be details of the vocabulary that we expect pupils to know.

What knowledge must the children know in each unit 

Within each of our units of learning, there will be details of the knowledge that we expect pupils to remember.

Promoting British values 

Accordion content

Half termly curriculum booklet articles

Each half-term, pupils and home are provided with a booklet outlining what pupils are learning, how home can help, useful websites and the vocabulary we will be using. To see the design technology examples of these, click on the year group below.

Nursery Reception Year 1 Year 2
Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6

Useful websites

Within each of our units of learning, there will be details of websites that can support home and further learning beyond the classroom.