Holly Hill Primary and Nursery School
Design and Technology
Design and Technology Intent Statement
General Statement
The Design and Technology curriculum at Holly Hill enables children to use creativity and imagination. This allows opportunities for pupils to design and make products that solve real and relevant problems within a variety of contexts, considering their own and others’ needs, wants and values. As a subject it should enable all children to learn how to take risks, become resourceful, innovative, enterprising and capable. Through evaluation of past and present design and technology, the children will develop a critical understanding of its impact on daily life and the wider world.
Through our Design and Technology curriculum we make links to our whole school curriculum intent statement. The aspects which are particularly significant to Design and Technology are:
Balance of knowledge and skills
Emotional well-being and healthy relationships
Experiences and opportunities
Preparation for adult life and work
Outdoor learning
Specific Aims
The National Curriculum outlines the following aims for Design and Technology:
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.
At Holly Hill the Design and Technology curriculum is designed so that we meet the National Curriculum aims through a progression of skills and knowledge taught in the sequence below:
| 3 & 4-year-olds will be learning to: | Children in Reception will be learning to: | ELG |
Expressive Art and Design |
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| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
KS1 |
| Cycle A Textiles Toy Story
Cycle B Mechanisms The Journey
| Cycle A Cooking and Nutrition China
| Cycle B Cooking and Nutrition Mother Nature |
| Cycle B Structures London Rocks! |
LKS2 |
| Cycle A Mechanical Systems Festivals of Light | Cycle B Cooking and Nutrition Bizarre Bodies |
| Cycle A Textiles Savage Stone Age
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UKS2 | Cycle B Mechanical Systems Clockwork
| Cycle A Cooking and Nutrition Crime and Punishment
| Cycle A Cooking and Nutrition How to Save the Human Race | Cycle B Electrical Systems WW2
| Cycle B Cooking and Nutrition WW2 |
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Rationale
At Holly Hill, Design and Technology coverage is organised in this way to allow for a progression of skills throughout the learning journey. The curriculum is structured in such a way to allow all children the opportunity to design, make and evaluate an individual project at least once during each year of their time at Holly Hill. This allows for each age phase to complete structure; mechanical systems; and cooking and nutrition projects. Additionally, KS1 also completes a textiles project; LKS2 completes an electrical topic which has been designed to enable the children to learn how Design and Technology have changed throughout history and the impact these developments have on our life today.
Cooking and nutrition as a part of Design and Technology has been structured as whole day or two-day subject days as we believe this allows all children the best opportunity to immerse themselves in the preparation and cooking process.