1. What does D&T look like at All Saints’?

The D&T curriculum is taught following the National Curriculum, through a knowledge and skills-based approach. The skills and knowledge that children will develop throughout each D&T topic are mapped across each year group and throughout the school to ensure progression.

At All Saints’, our Design and technology curriculum is structured on the aims of the National Curriculum and linked to our wider curriculum topics in each year group and the liturgy calendar to ensure relevancy and context.

The children are taught skills and given opportunities to practise and develop mastery in the key processes of D&T: design, make, evaluate and technological knowledge. The key skills have been broken down into specific year groups to ensure there is coverage and progression across the school and children can build on their prior learning year-on-year.

We strive to challenge all children to grow from their starting point, supporting and scaffolding tasks to help every child achieve.

Use research and develop design criteria to inform the design of innovative, functional, appealing products that are fit for purpose, aimed at particular individuals or groups.
Generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through discussion, annotated sketches, cross-sectional and exploded diagrams, prototypes, pattern pieces and computer-aided design.

Select from and use a wider range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks [for example, cutting, shaping, joining and finishing], accurately.
Select from and use a wider range of materials and components, including construction materials, textiles and ingredients, according to their functional properties and aesthetic qualities.

Investigate and analyse a range of existing products.
Evaluate their ideas and products against their own design criteria and consider the views of others to improve their work.
Understand how key events and individuals in design and technology have helped shape the world.