Design and Technology Subject Leader: Mrs Emily Langfield
At Kaye’s First and Nursery School we are committed to providing all children with learning opportunities to engage in design and technology. Our planning and practice is based on the 2014 National Curriculum for Design and Technology.
Design and Technology at our school offers opportunities for children to:
- develop their capability to create high quality products through combining their designing and making skills with knowledge and understanding;
- develop a sense of enjoyment and pride in their ability to make;
- nurture creativity and innovation through designing and making;
- Develop an interest and understanding of the ways in which people from the past and present have used design to meet their needs.
At Kaye’s we believe design and technology is about designing and making products for a specific user and purpose. It involves children in learning about the world we live in and developing a wide range of knowledge and skills through designing and making. It helps children to think through problems creatively, about how to organise themselves and how to use knowledge and skills to bring about change and to shape the environment. Through design and technology children become discriminating and informed users of products and become innovators.
Year 1 - Designing a moving picture
Year 3 - Creating moving monsters
The National Curriculum
This subject includes cooking, which will be taught in all primary schools, with children finding out about a healthy diet and preparing simple meals. It also includes the more traditional design elements in which children will design, make and evaluate products while learning to use a range of tools and techniques for construction. There may also be some cross-over with Science here as children incorporate levers, pulleys or electrical circuits into their designs for finished products.