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Design and Technology
Aim
Our Design and Technology curriculum aims to develop the creative, technical and practical expertise needed to perform everyday tasks confidently and to participate successfully in an increasingly technological world. This is underpinned by the principles of Design, Make and Evaluate. Our children critique, evaluate and test their ideas and products and the work of others.
Pupils will be taught to use the basic principles of a healthy and varied diet to prepare dishes and understand where food comes from. They must understand and apply the principles of a healthy and varied diet, prepare and cook a variety of predominantly savoury dishes using a range of cooking techniques, understand seasonality, and know where and how a variety of ingredients are grown, reared, caught and processed.
The DT curriculum will be taught over 7 weeks in autumn term, 6 weeks in spring term and 7 weeks in summer term.
| Term | Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | Year 4 | Year 5 | Year 6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Autumn | Weaving | Bridges | Textiles | Cooking and seasonality | Structures and mechanisms | Nutritional meals |
| Spring | Wheels and axels | Levers and sliders | Food for healthy teeth | Gears and pulleys | Baking savoury dishes | Complex structures |
| Summer | Healthy Meals | Seasonal meals | Cams and linkages | Materials to build structures | Electrical systems | Computerised systems |