Design Technology

Mrs C Alcock is our Design Technology Subject Leader.
calcock@trawden.lancs.sch.uk

Intent

At Trawden Forest Primary School we aim to provide all children with a broad and balanced curriculum which prepares them for life beyond primary education. We encourage children to use their creativity and imagination, 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. Design and Technology is an inspiring, rigorous and practical subject. It can be found in many of the objects children use each day and is a part of children’s immediate experiences. Design and Technology encourages children to learn to think and intervene creatively to solve problems both as individuals and as members of a team.

Topics are informed by the national curriculum and are sensitive to children’s interests, as well as the context of the local area. The DT curriculum at Trawden Forest is carefully planned and structured to ensure that current learning is linked to previous learning and that the school’s approaches are informed by current pedagogy. In line with the national curriculum 2014, the curriculum at Trawden Forest 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.

Research Link

Education Endowment Fund research stresses the importance of developing character and essential life skills in childhood, which technology teaches, and the association with a range of positive outcomes at school and beyond.