We want all of our pupils to be curious about designing and making and to enjoy coming up with ideas, refining and developing these, and making things themselves.
Early Years Foundation Stage
In the EYFS children are given opportunities to explore design both indoors and outdoors. They are taught to safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, and become confident in experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function through continuous provision. They have open access to equipment and modelling with reclaimed materials, and they are given a wide variety of cooking opportunities throughout the year.
Key Stage 1 and 2
We teach CUSP Design and Technology, through which vertical progression is woven into the fabric of the curriculum so that pupils revisit key disciplines throughout their Primary journey at increasing degrees of challenge and complexity.
Our work on Design and Technology draws on fields including maths, science, engineering, computing and art. The Design and Technology curriculum covers a particular set of disciplines, which are: food and nutrition, mechanisms, structures, systems, electrical systems, understanding materials and textiles.
Children work as a designer through four aspects: Design, the art or process of deciding how something will look or work; Make, creating something by
combining materials or putting parts together; Evaluate, forming an opinion of the value or quality of something after careful thought; and Apply, using something or making something which will work in a particular situation.