Design and Technology
Curriculum statement for Design & Technology (DT) at Chorleywood Primary School
At Chorleywood Primary School, we are committed to providing our children with a curriculum that has a clear intention and impacts positively upon their needs. It is designed to help pupils remember long term content and integrate new knowledge by coherently sequencing learning so that knowledge is cumulatively secured over time.
Curriculum Intent
The national curriculum for DT intends to ensure that all pupils:
1. Develop the creative, technical and practical expertise needed to perform everyday tasks confidently and to participate successfully in an increasingly technological world
2. Build and apply a repertoire of knowledge, understanding and skills in order to design and make high-quality prototypes and products for a wide range of users
3. Critique, evaluate and test their ideas and products and the work of others
4. Understand and apply the principles of nutrition and learn how to cook.
Chorleywood Curriculum Intent
Design and technology is an inspiring, rigorous and practical subject. Using creativity and imagination, and through both creative and practical activities, pupils design and make products that solve real and relevant problems within a variety of relative contexts, considering their own and others’ needs, wants and values. They acquire a broad range of subject knowledge and skills and draw on disciplines from other curriculum areas and put it to practical use, thus consolidating their understanding more generally. Similarly, pupils who struggle with concepts in the abstract often find their understanding develops as they engage in practical D&T projects. The intent of D&T is for pupils to learn how to take risks and become resourceful, innovative, enterprising and capable citizens. Our pupils will be taught the necessary knowledge and skills needed to engage in designing and making. The Design and Technology curriculum will be planned and delivered in a way that ensures progression of skills and follows a sequence to build on previous learning. Through the evaluation of past and present design and technology, they develop a critical understanding of its impact on daily life and the wider world. They will gain experience and skills of a range of formal elements of design and concepts of technology in a way that will enhance their learning opportunities, enabling them to make use of it in their everyday lives to be creative, resilient and solve problems. High quality design and technology education makes an essential contribution to the creativity, culture, health and wellbeing of the nation.
