Design and Technology

Design and Technology is an inspiring, rigorous and practical subject. Using creativity and imagination, pupils design and make products that solve real and relevant problems within a variety of contexts, considering their own and others’ needs, wants and values. At Godstone Primary and Nursery School we use Kapow Primary to inspire the children’s design creativity.

Intent

• To provide all children with a high-quality, progressive design and technology education which will engage and inspire them to develop a love for the subject and their talents as designers beyond their time at Godstone Primary and Nursery School. 
• To raise the profile of design and technology at Godstone Primary and Nursery School.
• To encourage children to use their creativity and imagination to design and make a range of products. 
• To encourage children to learn to think and intervene creatively to solve problems both as individuals and as members of a team. 
• To allow children to develop the creative, technical and practical expertise needed to perform everyday tasks confidently and to participate successfully in an increasingly technological world. 
• To build a repertoire of knowledge, understanding and skills in order to design and make high-quality products for a range of uses. 
• To provide children with the opportunity to critique, evaluate and test their ideas and products and the work of others.

Implementation

• Provides children with a practical approach to their arts education.
• Ensures coverage, as well as progression.
• Lessons taught weekly, over three half-terms.
• Provide children with engaging themes e.g. waistcoats, castles, chairs, stuffed toys etc. (creativity and imagination through designing of products).
• Providing the children with the necessary skills, leading to the final product. 
• Children apply knowledge and skills in their designing and making from other curriculum areas, e.g. art and design, science and English.
• All designing, making and evaluating provides learning opportunities for developing creativity through designing skills such as generating, exploring, modifying ideas through drawing, and modelling with materials. 
• Knowledge organisers – for key vocabulary/knowing more, remembering more 
• Units covered: textiles; structure; mechanisms; electrical systems; food.

Impact

• Raised profile of design and technology at the school. 
• Children to have a bettered ability to design, make and evaluate (increasing number of children working at the expected standard). 
• Development of designing, making and evaluating skills as they progress through the school. 
• Increasing number of children showing enjoyment towards the subject and wanting to actively engage. 
• Development of use and understanding of technical vocabulary. 
• Improvements in the quality of work produced by the children, which is to be celebrated in classrooms and beyond.