Bowmansgreen Primary
School Design and Technology
Identify problems, create solutions, and bring ideas to life
At Bowmansgreen Primary School we aim to inspire pupils to be innovative and creative thinkers through the Design and Technology curriculum. We aim to develop learners who have an appreciation for the product design cycle through ideation, creation, and evaluation. We want pupils to develop the confidence to take risks, through drafting design concepts, modelling, and testing and to be reflective learners who evaluate their work and the work of others. Through our curriculum we aim to build an awareness of the impact of design and technology on our lives and encourage pupils to become resourceful, enterprising citizens who will have the skills to contribute to future design advancements. Our Design and technology curriculum enables pupils to meet the end of key stage attainment targets in the National curriculum and the aims also align with those in the National curriculum. EYFS (Reception) units provide opportunities for pupils’ to work towards the Development matters statements and the Early Learning Goals.
The teaching and implementation of the Design and Technology Curriculum at Bowmansgreen Primary School is based on the National Curriculum, through Kapow Primary, Design and Technology – Condensed Curriculum and linked to units which ensure a well-structured approach.
The Design and technology National curriculum outlines the three main stages of the design process: design, make and evaluate. Each stage of the design process is underpinned by technical knowledge which encompasses the contextual, historical, and technical understanding required for each strand. Cooking and nutrition has a separate section, with a focus on specific principles, skills and techniques in food, including where food comes from, diet and seasonality. The National curriculum organises the Design and technology attainment targets under four subheadings:
- Design
- Make
- Evaluate
- Technical knowledge.
At Bowmansgreen Primary School each of the Design and Technology units taught includes these and has a clear progression of skills and knowledge within these strands and key areas across each year group.
The children are taught Design and Technology through termly units. Areas covered are based on six key areas that pupils revisit throughout their time at Bowmansgreen Primary School:
● Cooking and nutrition
● Mechanisms/ Mechanical systems
● Structures
● Textiles
● Electrical systems (KS2 only)
● Digital world (KS2 only).
The Kapow Primary scheme is a spiral curriculum, with key areas revisited again and again with increasing complexity, allowing pupils to revisit and build on their previous learning.
At Bowmansgreen Primary School our curriculum focuses on developing pupils to be equipped with a range of skills:
- Understand the functional and aesthetic properties of a range of materials and resources
- Understand how to use and combine tools to carry out different processes for shaping, decorating, and manufacturing products
- Build and apply a repertoire of skills, knowledge and understanding to produce high quality, innovative outcomes, including models, prototypes, CAD, and products to fulfil the needs of users, clients, and scenarios
- Understand and apply the principles of healthy eating, diets, and recipes, including key processes, food groups and cooking equipment
- Have an appreciation for key individuals, inventions, and events in history and of today that impact our world
- Recognise where our decisions can impact the wider world in terms of community, social and environmental issues
- Self-evaluate and reflect on learning at different stages and identify areas to improve
- Meet the end of key stage expectations outlined in the National curriculum for Design and technology
Through our rich and broad curriculum we will enable our children to succeed in their secondary education and be innovative and resourceful members of society.
If you would like to find out more information about how our school approaches the teaching of Design and Technology and the impact we intent for it to have, then please read our Intent, Implementation and Impact document below.
Intent, Implementation and Impact
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