Design and Technology

Design and technology is fundamental to how we live. As technology develops, life opportunities are expanded and can be used effectively to improve lives. Design, structures, mechanisms, electric control and food are intrinsic to the way we live, our health and the choices we make. Our curriculum makes explicit links to other disciplines, in science and maths but also exposes pupils to the important role of innovators, engineers, inventors and designers in shaping our futures.

At Hovingham Primary our music curriculum will enable pupils to:
• Develop skills and precision to design, making and evaluate.
• Acquire, retain and retrieve key knowledge and skills linked to design, mechanisms, electric control and food.
• Think critically, identifying the features, problems and solutions in products.
• Progressively master the use and application of a range of tools and equipment. This will develop from EYFS to Year 6.
• Understand the significance of developments in design and technology over time.
• Understand the impact technological advances have had on living, non-living things and our environment.

The National Curriculum provides the knowledge and skill development for the design and technology curriculum being taught throughout the school.
The design and technology content, for every year group, from Nursery to Year 6, is carefully mapped out so that teachers know and understand what to teach and when to teach it. All sequences of learning are planned so that there is cohesion and key knowledge and skills are protected.

What will this look like in the classroom ?
Our teaching sequence, through the 5A model, will:

	Aim: Learning will be placed within the context of similar past learning from previous subjects and year groups.
	Acquire: Children will explore and learn about variety of famous design technicians over time.
	Activate: Through review of learning covered in previous lesson, so that it is coherent and structured.
	Apply: Through design brief, posing the problem to be solved.
	Activate and Apply: Through research existing products and possible construction materials/ingredients/ tools.
	Apply: Through children create their own design, in response to the brief and research.
	Apply and Acquire: Through Children make product using new techniques and skill they have acquired.
	Assess: Through children evaluate their work and their peers.

Our classrooms will:
• Provide appropriate quality equipment for each area of the curriculum.
• Have developed learning walls which include high quality WAGOLLs, including actual pieces of work and known design technicians, and carefully chosen vocabulary, which are regularly updated.
• Be organised so that pupils can work in small groups or whole class as appropriate to support pupils in their development of their skills.
• Be a safe space for children to learn and develop their DT skills, such as; sewing, cooking and wood work.

Our children will be:
• Engaged because they are challenged by the curriculum which they are provided with.
• Resilient learners who overcome barriers and understand their own strengths and areas for development.
• Able to critique their own work as a design technician because they know how to be successful.
• Safe and happy in design technology lessons which give them opportunities to explore their own creative development.
• Encouraged and nurtured to overcome any barriers to their learning or self-confidence because feedback is positive and focuses on design and technology skills and knowledge.
• Able to talk about a variety of famous design technicians over time.
• Develop design technology skills and confidence over time because of careful planning, focused delivery and time to practice and hone skills.

HOW WILL THIS BE MEASURED?
Pupil Voice will show:
• A developed understanding of the names, key works, styles and techniques of design technicians at an age appropriate level.
• A secure understanding of the key techniques and methods for each key area of the curriculum: design, plan, make, evaluate.
• A progression of understanding, with appropriate vocabulary which supports and extends understanding.
• Confidence in discussing design technicians, their own work and identifying their own strengths and areas for development.

Displays around school and books and DT projects will show:
• Pupils have had opportunities for practice and refinement of skills.
• A varied and engaging curriculum which develops a range of design and technology skills.
• Class projects of the work of well-known designs.
• Developed and final pieces of work which showcase the skills learned.
• Clear progression of skills in line with expectations set out in the progression grids.
• That pupils, over time, develop a range of skills and techniques across all of the areas of the design technology curriculum.

The curriculum leader will:
• Pupils have had opportunities for practice and refinement of skills.
• A varied and engaging curriculum which develops a range of design and technology skills.
• Close studies of the work of well-known designs.
• Developed and final pieces of work which showcase the skills learned.
• Clear progression of skills in line with expectations set out in the progression grids.
• That pupils, over time, develop a range of skills and techniques across all of the areas of the design technology curriculum.