Our DT curriculum provides children with a real-life context for learning through a project-based, phased approach to both planning, teaching and learning.  We want to prepare children to deal with an ever-changing technological world, encouraging them to become creative and resourceful problem solvers, working both independently and as members of a team.

How we teach DT 

We teach children to be inspired by real world opportunities and relevant problems, identifying needs and developing a range of ideas and solutions in a variety of contexts. By researching past and present technologies, where possible, meeting real industry workers and applying knowledge learnt across other areas of the curriculum, children build their confidence, resilience, practical and analytical skills. Furthermore, they learn to overcome challenges and improve designs and products, all the while finding motivation and meaning for their learning.

Children at Bond learn skills in product research, disassembling and building products, making prototypes, testing, designing and evaluating. The teachers plan lessons around a Phased Approach, whereby each phase may well have a series of lessons. Year groups - together with the children-think of a driving question to steer the learning through the different phases: 

In each product children will have the opportunity to:

Analyse and evaluating existing products to fully understand the purpose, function and design criteria.

Explore how the design could be replicated and altered using a range of materials tools and learning new skills.

Design a product by making informed design decisions and recording their ideas, adapting their design where necessary

Make a functional product based on their design, apply new skills and finishing touches to ensure they have made a quality product that functions.

Evaluate their product against the success criteria and think about the strengths and weakness of their design.

 

 By the time children reach Year 6, they will have had experience of food tech, textiles, design and construction. They will be confidently performing everyday tasks and applying their knowledge, understanding and an increased level of skills as they progress through the school. They will be on the way to becoming risk takers and innovators and will have used a range of tools, resources and materials, including the use of IT, to create effectively constructed and aesthetically pleasing results. This, along with a strong focus on the importance of evaluation, allows children to adapt and improve their work, providing them with not only a sense of achievement, but a strong foundation for the next step of their learning and a key skill for life.