Design and Technology

Our intent is for children to:

Inspire and challenge our children, through a safe and happy learning environment, to achieve excellent standards in DT including all aspects of the Early Years Foundation Stage and National Curriculum objectives for DT.
Our innovative approaches are aimed at ensuring that all children, regardless of background or circumstance, are excited and engaged in learning about Design Technology.
To inspire our children to become independent, creative problem solvers.
Learning is real, relevant, and purposeful, and provides opportunities where our children develop skills to think as individuals and as part of a team.
For children to develop practical skills of assembling, fixing, constructing, and designing.
For children to have the opportunity to experience new and exciting things.
To support our children’s learning through nurturing relationships, resulting in confident, inquisitive learners, who ask questions and are driven to extend their own knowledge
To prepare and inspire children for further learning in DT in secondary school and beyond.

In EYFS, DT is taught through a play-based approach. Children can access a wide range construction and design materials, including junk modelling, blocks, and large-scale construction items outside. Children also have access to a variety of open-ended materials, to inspire original ideas and imaginative play.
In school we use Cornerstones as our driver for DT, this creative and innovative approach to the curriculum ensures that design technology is delivered using high quality teaching and resources.
Learning is enabled by positive, nurturing relationships, which support children to challenge themselves and discover new and exciting ways to do things.
There are opportunities for children to learn both indoors and outdoors.
Children’s work evidence high expectations in DT.

Our children become resilient learners, who rise to the challenges faced in their creative work.
Our children will be proud of their work, celebrating as an individual and as part of a team.
Children will acquire practical skills such as assembling, fixing, constructing, and designing, and personal skills such as perseverance, self-belief, teamwork, and reflective practice skills, which will transfer through the entire curriculum and everyday life.

“We designed and made our own little mini-beast hotels.”

“I like to design things that I can then make.”

“We made a robot that had moving part.”

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