Design and Technology is a valued part of the curriculum at Mereside Primary School, where pupils can explore and evaluate existing products, and design, create and evaluate a product they have made.
Our Design and Technology curriculum allows our children to develop perseverance, and two of our core values, respect and community, whilst engaging, inspiring and challenging our pupils.
Throughout the year groups children learn the knowledge, understanding and skills needed to engage in an iterative process of designing and creating through a variety of practical and creative activities. Children build upon their structural knowledge and learn useful life skills. alongside creating a variety of products designed for the home, school, local community, and industries in the wider environment. Our Design and Technology curriculum hangs upon the skill of evaluation which is first done to existing products, and later on their own product which they have created.
Children are taught a range of techniques from cutting and preparing, cooking and nutrition to making mechanisms and moving objects. We have a clear progression throughout Design and Technology in the school, with many of the subject areas appearing in multiple year groups.
Through collaborative discussions about their work children are encouraged to form evaluative opinions that are also constructive and respectful. Work is then celebrated through displays, open afternoons and after school clubs.
Our children are able to have opportunities to work collaboratively with their peers and the wider community through links with local businesses.
Long Term Plan
D&T in EYFS
