Design & Technology

Intent

At Rolls Crescent our Design and Technology curriculum is underpinned by the CLIC trust 'active ingredients.' These active ingredients have been chosen using research based evidence on how children learn and how they commit knowledge to their long term memory.

At Rolls Crescent Primary School children are taught to select and use appropriate tools safely and effectively to make a product. In all areas of Design and Technology the children are encouraged to consider the effectiveness of their designs and requirements of the product. Every child will have the opportunity to learn and extend their understanding, experience and application in the use of technology, including computing, in as wide a variety of situations as possible, in order that their skills may be utilised in a full cross-curricular sense.

At Rolls Crescent Primary School, we believe that Design and 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 eventually making products and systems.

Our curriculum is adapted for pupils with SEND to ensure they are included and can access the learning.  We ensure that they have access to prior learning to ensure they can link previous learning to new learning as well as being able to access the skills and knowledge being built upon in new learning.

In the Early Years Foundation Stage, Design and Technology forms part of the learning children acquire under the ‘Understanding of the World' and ‘Expressive arts and design’ areas of learning. The children have regular opportunities, throughout continuous provision and adult-led activities, to engage with learning experiences. This enables them to explore and play with a wide range of media and materials, which helps them develop their understanding of the world, self-expression, artistic awareness, vocabulary, imagination and creativity. Children are given drawing, collage, painting and building opportunities daily, as they have access to the construction and creative area daily.

 Implementation

At Rolls Crescent Primary School, through the study of Design and Technology children combine practical skills with an understanding of aesthetic, social and environmental issues. This allows children 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.

At Rolls Crescent Primary School, Children are encouraged to listen to the ideas of others, and treat them with respect, to critically evaluate existing products, both their own work and those of others. They have the opportunity to use a wide range of materials and resources, including ICT.

Impact

Our Design and Technology Curriculum is high quality, well thought out to include all children including those with SEND and is planned to demonstrate progression. The impact and measure of this is to ensure children not only acquire the appropriate age- related knowledge linked to the design and technology curriculum, but also skills which equip them to progress from their starting points, and within their everyday lives and could use in the future in their careers.

Design and Technology (D&T) gives the children the opportunity to develop skill, knowledge and unextending of designing and making functional products. It develops children’s skills and knowledge in design, structures, mechanisms, electrical control and a range of materials, such as food and textiles. Design and Technology can provide excellent opportunities to develop some vital skills such as; communication, team work, problem solving, application of number, information of technology, team work, creative thinking skills and evaluation skills.

At Rolls Crescent we feel that Design and 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 eventually making products and systems. Through the study of design and technology they combine practical skills with an understanding of aesthetic, social and environmental issues, as well as functions and industrial practices. 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 from foundation stage upwards to become discriminating and informed consumers and potential innovators.

At Rolls Crescent, we measure the impact of our curriculum using our wider curriculum whole school assessment and monitoring sheet. This identifies any children that need extra support, any whole class misconceptions and how to put this in place immediately, or in the next lesson. We then use this information to input summative data once per year.

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