Design and Technology


Design & Technology prepares our pupils to participate in tomorrow's rapidly changing technologies. Children learn to think and intervene creatively to improve quality of life, working independently as well as within team situations.

Design & Technology combines practical aesthetics, social and environmental issues, function and industrial practices.

At Key Stage One

  • Pupils are encouraged to think and talk about their opinions when designing and producing
  • They build on their early childhood experiences of investigating objects around them
  • They explore how things work and investigate, draw, model and discuss their ideas
  • Children are instructed on how to work safely and properly with tools and technological equipment

At Key Stage Two

  • Pupils develop designs within a group as well as individually builds skills and focuses on the uses and needs for specific projects
  • Children plan, review and constructively analyse their work and that of their peers
  • Each child's views and experience feeds into their work partnered with new processes and cross-curricular input such as designing with a computer

At Key Stage Three

  • Pupils extend previously learnt skills and relate them to topic units of work
  • Pupils use ICT skills to aid design and further relate control activities to their projects
  • Pupils work on a range of projects which include working with textiles, resistant materials and food
  • Pupils analyse products, design, make and constructively evaluate their work

At Key Stage Four

  • Pupils learn to develop, plan and communicate ideas, to work with tools, equipment, materials and components to make quality products
  • Pupils learn to evaluate processes and products, and to develop a knowledge and understanding of systems and control
  • Pupils are taught the knowledge, skills and understanding through product analysis, focused practical tasks that develop a range of techniques, skills, processes in the design and creation of assignments which include activities related to industrial practices and the application of systems and control

We offer a wide range of opportunities for hands on Design & Technology education. We use a cross curricular approach which places Design & Technology within an ever changing continuum in our world today. Our resource base ranges from our computer lab, to woodwork equipment to a wide range of construction and design toys.