Welcome to Design Technology at Henley Green

Intent

At Henley Green, the intent of the DT Curriculum is to provide plenty of opportunities for the children to learn, apply and strengthen essential skills required in the designing, making and evaluating of an effective product for a given purpose. Using creativity and imagination, pupils design and make products that solve real and relevant problems within a variety of contexts, considering their own and others’ needs, wants and values. Pupils learn how to take risks, becoming resourceful, innovative and enterprising.

Implementation

 To ensure high standards of teaching and learning in design and technology, we implement a curriculum that is progressive, fun and relevant, throughout the whole school. Design and technology is taught, where appropriate, as part of a half-termly topic, focusing on knowledge and skills stated in the National Curriculum. The teaching of DT should enable all children to gain ‘real-life’ experiences. Teachers plan lessons for their class using our D&T overview and progression of skills documents. The progression document ensures the curriculum is covered and the skills/knowledge taught is progressive from year group to year group.

Impact

The high-quality teaching of DT at Henley Green will enable learners to build a strong range of core skills as they progress through the school that will give them the opportunity to become resourceful, innovative, enterprising and capable citizens. All children will feel empowered to design and create a range of products as well as applying practical expertise to enable them to participate successfully in an increasingly technological world. Children will evaluate work by other designers and consider how resources may be adapted to suit the needs of others. They will learn to see the value of design in a variety of contexts both in day-to-day life and to build towards different careers in the future.

Design and Technology

Purpose of Study: Design and technology is an inspiring, rigorous and practical subject. Using creativity and imagination, pupils design and make products that solve real and relevant problems within a variety of contexts, considering their own and others’ needs, wants and values. They acquire a broad range of subject knowledge and draw on disciplines such as mathematics, science, engineering, computing and art. Pupils learn how to take risks, becoming resourceful, innovative, enterprising and capable citizens. Through the evaluation of past and present design and technology, they develop a critical understanding of its impact on daily life and the wider world. High-quality design and technology education makes an essential contribution to the creativity, culture, wealth and well-being of the nation.

The national curriculum for design and technology aims to ensure that all pupils:

* 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

Cooking and Nutrition

Across the school at Henley Green, we are passionate about healthy eating and healthy lifestyles. This is a large part of the Design Technology Curriculum. We have a purpose built kitchen where children can learn how to boil, bake, cook, grill and fry!

DT in Year 1.

Year 1 designed, made and evaluated a healthy fruit salad!

Henley Green Garden

If you look in our garden, you might see some veggies growing (especially in the summer months). We often have beans and potatoes (and weeds!).

Ideas to do in your garden or down at the park.

Using our design and construction skills, KS1 children made moving toys and fire engines. KS2 successfully made festival decorations (using construction skills) and pyramids that lit up (using maths, construction and electric skills). It was great fun and the children’s end products were fabulous.

Things to do at home: