Design and Technology Intent, Implementation and Impact
“The inventors of tomorrow have been inspired today.”
Sir James Dyson.
Intent
It is the intent of Park Road Community Primary School to provide a creative, purposeful and progressive design and technology curriculum. It provides opportunities to apply learning from other subjects including maths, science, English, computing and PSHE. The National Curriculum (2013) states,
“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 Park Road, we believe in creating ‘experts’ through delivering a purposeful curriculum, making links to other subject areas where possible, to broaden understanding and strengthen learning. Children will master practical skills in order to create high quality products, reviewing, evaluating and improving as necessary. Our curriculum has been designed to provide opportunities for children to regularly revisit and recap their knowledge and skills, enabling them to know more, remember more and apply more as they progress through school.
Implementation
The teaching of Design and Technology across Park Road follows the National Curriculum through the use of Kapow. This supports teaching staff to plan and implement DT lessons that are progressive, allowing children to be curious and creative in their approach to solving purposeful problems. The use of this scheme ensures the key principles of effective teaching and learning in DT from investigation to design and evaluation are met.
Impact
Through our DT teaching and learning, we aim for children to make excellent progress against National Curriculum outcomes. Children will become skilled designers and critical thinkers. They will be able to transfer the key skills across the curriculum, for example problem solving and critical thinking. Children are assessed against National Curriculum outcomes alongside key vocabulary from each unit. This may be demonstrated in many ways including, but not limited to, written designs and evaluations, assessment of final products and the key skills being used to create these, verbal communication about the product via Seesaw, pictorial evidence in DT books. Where necessary, staff plan additional opportunities for children to master key skills for their year group if not met at the time of teaching. Information about children’s attainment is passed on to the next teacher and the Subject Lead monitors and tracks this throughout the year by way of learning walks and talks, work monitoring and pupil voice discussions.
Click on the National Curriculum image for the National Curriculum programme of study for Design and Technology.
