The national curriculum for Design and Technology aims to ensure that all pupils:
- develop the creative, technical and practical skills 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
- can evaluate and test their ideas and products and the work of others.
The Design and Technology curriculum develops the priorities for pupils at Wolsingham Primary School in the following ways:
Basic skills –
Resilience and Perseverance –
Social Awareness –
Knowledge –
Design and Technology in the Early Years
A designer in the early years will learn how to use tools safely, and effectively to construct with a purpose in mind. They will begin to learn how to join and assemble pieces together and adapt their work where necessary, understanding that tools can be used for a purpose and how to use these safely and effectively. Practising some safety measures without supervision. All learning will include children understanding how to use tools and techniques safely, competently and appropriately, considering and managing some risks. They will show an interest in the way toys work with knobs, pulleys, flaps, or moving parts, and use these as inspiration when designing and making. A designer in the early years will use previous learning, discussions, stories, topics and recent visits to move forward their designs, often making items and objects familiar to them for example a pair of binoculars to go on a bear hunt. A lot of learning in the early years takes place through purposeful play, both indoors and outdoors. Towards the end of Reception, children will be learning skills to equip them for their future learning and later success in Year 1.
