Design & Technology
DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY AT ST LUKE'S
Subject leader: Mrs F Noor
“Technology makes possibilities. Design makes solutions.”
– John Maeda
What we believe:
At St Luke’s we endeavour to teach our children to become creative and innovative thinkers. With an ever changing world, we aim to provide our pupils with the skills needed to create, design and build a variety of technology based products. Our curriculum is based upon the EYFS framwerok and the accalimed 'Kapow scheme' which takes in to account the New Curriculum targets and skills, in conjunction with original QCA documentation. The scheme we use has a structured progression of skills document which shows the development of DT skills from EYFS to year 6.
Throughout the school pupils are taught the skills to safely use a range of materials and equipment, including ICT based software and food. In Early years the focus is on exploring the world around them and developing the gross and fine motor skills they need to successfully approach the Key Stage 1 curriculum. Within Key stage 1 and 2, pupils follow a structured progression of skills focusing on food, materials, textiles, electrical and electronics, construction, mechanics and computing. Many units are designed to reflect the themes being taught within year groups and children are encouraged to make suggestions, evaluate and improve their designs during all parts of the process.
Useful links:
BBC Bitesize
Year 1 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zs83jfr
year 2 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zfdbqyc
year 3 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zywg7v4
year 4 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zvqcmbk
Year 5 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z374xg8
year 6 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zb296rd