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Home / Our Curriculum / Curriculum Planning / Curriculum – Design & Technology

Curriculum – Design & Technology

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. 

Design and Technology Intent

At North Park Primary School, it is our intention that learning in Design & Technology enables children to exercise their creativity and imagination through the designing and making process.  We seek to inspire all children through a broad range of practical experiences to enable them to participate successfully in an increasingly technological world. The curriculum will allow pupils to:

  • create innovative designs for a range of products
  • solve real and relevant problems within a variety of contexts
  • link their learning to practical and relevant understanding of the place of design and technology in their everyday lives.

The DT curriculum provides a coherently planned sequence of termly learning, adopted and adapted from Kapow, to ensure a progressive development of knowledge and skills.  The curriculum is dynamic and is regularly adjusted to coincide with the needs and views of learners.

The DT curriculum:

  • engages children and allows them to learn and build a repertoire of skills, knowledge and understanding by developing and creating a range of products.
  • provides the opportunity for children to acquire, practise and develop essential practical skills, such as cutting, sewing and joining
  • advances confidence, thinking and problem solving
  • allows children to understand and apply the principles of nutrition and healthy eating to their future lives.
  • provides children with the opportunity to individually and collaboratively build, critique, evaluate and test their ideas
  • introduces and emphasises an understanding of key technological vocabulary.

This learning builds upon the foundations laid down in Early Years, furthering each child’s development of their following fundamentals;

  • Physical development
  • Expressive Arts and Design
  • Understanding the world

Learning in Design & Technology at North Park contributes to the education of the ‘whole child’ and is a core aspect of our motto, ‘Achieving and growing, together in friendship’.

DT Subject overview

D&T Medium Term Plan


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