Design Technology Curriculum Intent

Our primary school curriculum is carefully designed to ensure a broad and balanced education that meets the needs of all pupils. The curriculum intent aims to inspire a love for learning, foster curiosity, and equip pupils with the skills and knowledge they need to flourish academically and personally. It is rooted in a deep understanding of the local community that ensures that we ‘value our past’, celebrate diversity, promote cultural capital, prepare pupils for life in modern Britain and ‘look to the future with hope’.

Commitment to our pupils is fulfilled through our high aspiration, passion and drive and is founded upon the following four key principles:

1. Unlocking children's true academic potential to ensure that they ‘flourish’.

We aim to develop confident, resilient, inquisitive, independent & knowledgeable children through the delivery of a coherent & structured enquiry based curriculum which builds on prior learning from nursery to year 6. Individuals are challenged to reach their true potential and be ready for the next stage in their education. We want our children to believe in the transformative power of change and to ‘look to the future with hope’ in their hearts.

In D.T we do this through:

• Providing a DT curriculum that is progressive and builds upon previous learning.

• Building a DT curriculum which ensures full coverage of the National Curriculum, develops learning and results in the acquisition of knowledge and skills that enable children to be designers and inventors. 

• Enabling children to design, make and evaluate by analysing existing products and then use this to create their own design criteria.

• Enabling children to gain an understanding of technical knowledge. 

• Incorporating cross-curricular links in DT, to ensure that areas of the curriculum feed into, enhance one another and join together to build a ‘bigger picture’ understanding

• Encouraging children to demonstrate their knowledge and skills

• Enhancing children’s outcomes across the school

2. Unlocking children’s true social and emotional potential to ensure that they ‘flourish’ as unique, well-rounded individuals.

We aim to foster happy and healthy children, within a safe environment, who are given the help they need to learn, grow and achieve as much as they possibly can in an atmosphere which nourishes a healthy mind and body. We want our children to believe that each one of them holds the power to make a difference in the world through ‘doing all of the good they can.’ 

In D.T we do this through:

• Pupil voice about DT

• British Science week to develop links between different curriculum areas to embed and enhance learning. 

• Workshop days to develop STEM. 

3. Unlocking children’s true potential to ‘flourish’ as life-long learners through raising individual expectations, self-belief and exposure to ‘opportunity’

We aim to help our children to be aware of and see ‘opportunity’ beyond their locality and starting points through exposure to the wider world. We aim to provide a broad, balanced curriculum with a wide variety of experiences which nurture the talents and interests of our children enabling them to become resilient, creative, enquiring learners and effective communicators who persevere and aspire for excellence.

In DT we do this through:

• Developing their cultural capital by looking at a range of designers and inventors. 

• Ensuring that children are exposed to a range of jobs/careers to promote their curiosity and love of design technology. 

• Designing, making and evaluating products to develop their resilience when products do not work which enables them to persevere to aspire for excellence. 

• Developing their own design criteria to be creative in their thinking and to maximise creativity. 

4. For our children to ‘do all of the good they can’ by broadening their horizons and developing each of them as a responsible local and global citizen. 

We want our children to appreciate their role as part of our community. We encourage them to ask questions, make informed choices and to take responsibility for the decisions they make. As a result we hope to foster in our children an awareness of the difference they can make as local & global citizens, treating others with compassion and respect.

In DT we do this through:

• Focusing on designers and inventors linking to jobs and careers in design and technology. 

Design Technology Curriculum Intent Map

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