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Design and Technology

D&T gives children the opportunity to develop skills, knowledge and understanding of designing and making functional products. We feel it is vital to nurture creativity and innovation through design, and by exploring the designed and made world in which we all live and work.

Through creative and practical activities, children are taught the processes of designing and making. Each term the children have a Design & Technology topic where they can develop their skills and knowledge of design, structure, mechanisms, electrical control using a range of materials, including food. We currently use KAPOW and have mapped our coverage accordingly using their long term plans. The main skills that children develop in Design and Technology are:

  • Design – develop the creative, technical and practical expertise needed to perform everyday tasks confidently and to participate successfully in an increasingly technological world
  • Make – 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.
  • Evaluate – critique, evaluate and test their ideas and products and the work of others.
  • Technical knowledge – understand and apply the principles of nutrition and learn how to cook (this aim is linked to the four strands, but is primarily met by teaching units from the cooking and nutrition units).

These skills will develop as the children progress through the school all the way up to Year 6.

Please, take a look at what each year group is exploring in their Design and Technology projects this year at Oak View. The majority of these projects link to our history or geography topics.