Design and Technology
The national curriculum for design and technology aims to ensure that all pupils:
- develop the creative, technical and practical expertise needed to perform everyday tasks confidently
- and to participate successfully in an increasingly technological world build and apply a repertoire of knowledge,
understanding and skills in order to design and make high-quality prototypes and products for a wide range of users critique, - evaluate and test their ideas and products and the work of others understand and apply the principles of nutrition and learn how to cook.
PKC Design Technology
Design and Technology at Nancledra is an important part of the curriculum that promotes children’s skills in designing and making.
They will be taught to select appropriate materials and use equipment safely and are encouraged to refine and redraft their ideas and become critical in their craftsmanship to meet the needs of design specifications.
At Nancledra we believe that for our children to progress in Design Technology, they need a careful balance of direct teaching, team work and independence.
They need opportunities to experiment and explore in the creation of models and structures. Using creativity and imagination, pupils design and make products that solve real and relevant problems within a variety of contexts, considering their own and others’ needs, wants and values. They acquire a broad range of subject knowledge and draw on disciplines such as mathematics, science, engineering, computing and art.
At Nancledra Design and Technology helps to prepare our pupils for living and working in a technological world. This is achieved by teaching technical understanding, designing and making skills all of which are needed to produce practical solutions to problems. It stimulates both intellectual and creative abilities and develops the personal qualities needed. to complete a design project from initial ideas to a finished product.
