Design and Technology

Subject Co-ordinator: Mrs Hughes

What is Design and Technology?

Design and Technology prepares children to deal with tomorrow's rapidly changing world.  It encourages children to become independent, creative problems solvers and thinkers as individuals and as part of a team.  It enables them to identify needs and opportunities and to respond to them by developing a range of ideas and by making products and systems.  Through the study of Design and Technology, they combine practical skills and understanding of aesthetic, social and environmental issues, as well as functions and industry.  This allows them to reflect on and evaluate past and present technology, its uses and impacts.  At Yew Tree, Design and Technology is taught through our Projects on a Page curriculum.

The National Curriculum for Design and Technology aims to ensure that all pupils:

• develop the creative, technical and practical expertise needed to perform everyday tasks confidently and to participate successfully in an increasingly technological world  
• 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  
• critique, evaluate and test their ideas and products and the work of others  
• understand and apply the principles of nutrition and learn how to cook.

Long Term Project Plan for Design and Technology