Welcome to our page about the DT curriculum.

Design and Technology is taught in blocks throughout the year. Each lesson is an afternoon. It is taught as a stand-alone subject to allow for clear progression year on year. Links to other subjects are only made when relevant and when products have a genuine purpose.

A typical sequence of work will involve:

o Identifying a product and purpose, researching similar, existing products, dismantling them and evaluating

their strengths and weaknesses.

o Designing their own products with detailed annotated drawings and lists of ingredients or materials, tools,

and processes. Children discuss links to science, explaining the properties that make their material the

correct choice for their design.

o Children follow their design plans to make their product only making alterations if absolutely essential to

ensure they don’t lose the opportunity to evaluate their original design.

o Children critically evaluate their product to decide how effectively it fulfilled the original design brief. They

will consider how they would improve their product in future as well as the longevity of their design and

the environment impact it has - could they have up-cycled any materials for their design?

If you would like further information about how we teach DT in Ironville & Codnor Park Primary School please see the co-ordinator Mrs N Booth or contact her via email info@ironvillecodnorpark.derbyshire.sch.uk. For those interested in seeing the content of the curriculum for the whole year, please go to the 'Long Term Plans'. 

Design & Technology National Curriculum

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