Throckley Primary School Design and Technology Curriculum Overview Autumn
Early Years
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4
Year 5
Year 6
Children experience Design and Technology through EY Curriculum strand ‘Expressive Arts and Design’ and ‘Physical Development’.
Mechanisms Utilising sliders and levers to ensure movement.
Textiles To explore how shapes and textures can be created.
Textiles To combine various materials using different techniques.
Food and Nutrition Making sensible and informed food choices.
Food and Nutrition Eating seasonally and understanding seasonality.
Food and Nutrition Eating ethically and understanding its importance.
Build on EYFS – Manipulate materials for a planned effect. Structures Exploring freestanding structures.
To explore joining techniques. Build on Year 1 – Textiles. Food and Nutrition Following a recipe carefully and correctly.
To explore joining techniques. Build on Year 2 – Textiles.
Understanding and following a recipe. Revisit – Year 3 Food and Nutrition. Mechanisms Using and creating simplistic hinges.
Understanding and following a recipe. Revisit – Year 4 Food and Nutrition. Electrical systems To explore complex switches and circuits.
Eating seasonally and understanding seasonality. Build on Year 5 – Food and Nutrition. Mechanisms To explore and create a working gear.
Build on EYFS – Manipulate materials for a planned effect.
Understanding a recipe. Build on Year 1 – Food and Nutrition.
Understanding and following a recipe. Revisit – Year 1 and Year 2 Food and Nutrition.
Exploring linkage products. Build on Year 3 – Mechanisms.
Identifying switches and circuits. Build on Year 4 – Electrical systems.
Designing a working mechanism. Build on Year 5 – Mechanisms.
Link animals, including humans (keeping healthy) Mechanisms Creating a wheel mechanism using wheels and axles.
Link animals, including humans (keeping healthy) Mechanisms Designing and making simplistic lever and linkage products.
Textiles Selecting appropriate fastenings and attach them to fabric.
Textiles Exploring the durability of fabrics and repurpose them.
Food and Nutrition Eating on a budget.
Children realise tools can be used for a purpose. Children begin to be interested in and describe the texture of things. Children begin to experiment to create different textures.
Spring
Children understand that different media can be combined to create new effects. Children manipulate materials to achieve a planned effect.
Food and Nutrition Preparing fruit and vegetables through peeling, chopping and grating. Build on EYFS – Healthy foods.
Children use various construction materials.
Utilising sliders and levers to ensure movement. Build on Year 1 – Mechanisms.
Children construct with a purpose in mind, using a variety of resources. Children use simple tools and techniques
Using wheel mechanisms to propel a simple vehicle.
Understanding Materials Identify, sort and select materials
Understanding Materials Modifying materials to become waterproof.
Food and Nutrition Understanding a balanced and varied diet.
Identifying simple mechanisms. Build on Year 1 and Year 2. – Mechanisms.
Making a shank for a button.
Exploring objects and surfaces. Link to Year 3 Science – Forces and Magnets.
Exploring joining techniques and combining various materials using different techniques. Build on Year 3 – Textiles.
Food and Nutrition Exploring the healing qualities of food.
Structures Making triangles to form and join trusses.
Waterproofing materials. Building on Year 1 – Understanding Materials. Properties of materials. Link to Year 5 Science – Properties and Changes of Materials. Mechanisms Designing and making products that use pulleys and gears
Eating seasonally and understanding seasonality. Build on Year 5 – Food and Nutrition.
Structures To explore how to design complex structures.