Design and Technology Curriculum 

Our Design and Technology curriculum aims to inspire children to think about the important and integral role that design, and the creation of designed products, plays in our society. Wherever we look, evidence of design is all around us.  

The curriculum fulfils the requirements of the National Curriculum for England. This course of study seeks to show how design and technology shapes the world around us. The curriculum is split into three different areas: ‘cook’, ‘sew’ and ‘build’. It is designed so that each year group will complete a unit of work in these three different areas once a year. 

Two different ‘aspects’ of design are interwoven into the three areas of study: the environment and sustainability, and enterprise and innovation. These ‘aspects’ acknowledge enduring and contemporary concerns of modern design. Each unit specifies the concepts and skills which the students are expected to learn over the course of a unit. These concepts and skills progress gradually throughout the course of the six years of study.