CURRICULUM STATEMENT

Our Design and Technology curriculum aims to inspire students to think about the important and integral role which design, and the creation of designed products, play in our society. We seek provide children with the opportunity to use their creativity and imagination to create and construct products, linked to real life contexts. Children take part in practical, creative and motivating projects that link to other areas of the curriculum but with DT principles at the heart. Children have the opportunity to experience practically so as to:

• Investigate famous designers and ideas to solve practical design problems

• Develop the creative, technical and practical expertise needed to perform everyday tasks confidently and to participate successfully in an increasingly technological world

• Build and apply a repertoire of knowledge, understanding and skills in order to design and make high quality prototypes and products for a wide range of users

• Critique, evaluate and test their ideas and products and the work of others

• Understand and apply the principles of nutrition and learn how to cook

Through sequenced ideas and skills, children will experience and develop the concepts and key essentials skills of Design and Technology as they work through the exciting and innovative projects. These concepts and skills progress gradually throughout their time as Southfield Designers. Children will learn about famous designers who have influenced the world of technology and design. They will learn the disciplinary skills of what it is to be a Southfield Designer.