Intent

At Stoke Park Junior School, our Design and Technology curriculum intends to be inspiring, practical, meaningful and memorable.

• We want to develop children’s curiosity in the increasingly technological world around us and engage practically with it.
• Children will develop their own creative ideas as individuals and as part of a team.
• They will use their creativity and imagination and have opportunities to design and make products that build and apply a range of knowledge, understanding and skills.
• Children will work with others to solve real and relevant problems within a variety of contexts, considering their own and others’ needs, wants and values.
• Through evaluating and testing idea,  the children at Stoke Park Junior will become learners who can reflect critically on their designs. 
• As the children move through the key stage, we want the children to be able to apply learnt cooking skills and understand the principle of nutrition.
• We want children to have a love of Design Technology and develop their creative design and making skills.

Implementation

Our curriculum offers a range of exciting units taught throughout the Key Stage (seen in the long term plan) Through these, we also learn and apply a set of technical skills, including structures, mechanics, electrical control and a range of materials, including food (as evident in our progression document) The school's cookery room provides children the opportunity to develop their food technology skills and learn essential skills for life

Through a variety of creative and practical activities, which engage the children, we teach the knowledge and understanding as outlined in the National Curriculum document. We follow a ‘Design, Make, Evaluate’ approach to the teaching and learning of DT.

Through the evaluation of past and present Design and Technology, children will develop a critical understanding of its impact on daily life and the wider world.

Impact

Children will learn how to take risks and how to become resourceful, innovative, enterprising and capable citizens. They will develop the creative, technical and practical expertise needed to perform everyday tasks confidently and participate successfully in an increasingly technological world.

Children will understand and apply the principles of nutrition and learn how to cook.