Design Technology
At William Stockton, to ‘get better at ‘Design and Technology’ will mean that children learn to think creatively to solve problems and develop a natural curiosity alongside extending their understanding and skills base. We encourage children to use their creativity and imagination, to design and make products that solve real and relevant problems within a variety of contexts. Our key strands include: food and nutrition; structures; moving mechanisms; and electrical systems.
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| Mrs Beamish |
I am the DT subject lead at William Stockton. As a staff, we have designed our DT curriculum with our children at the heart. I am an advocate for teaching purposeful and engaging DT lessons where the children are able to solve problems, use a variety of taught skills and be creative.
Our Design Technology curriculum is based on the childern's prior knowledge. This supports the children to make excellent progress in DT as the planned skills and knowledge are progressively planned building upon the children's prior learning.
We continue to adapt and amend our long term plan responding to our children's needs, the most recent reseach and our findings within school from learning walks, book scrutinies and pupil and teacher voice.
We have agreed on clear end points that includes the core knowledge that, we believe, the children need to achieve well in DT and use the skills that they have been taught efficiently in their everyday life. A broad spectrum of the DT curriculum is delivered in order to accomodate and challenge pupils of all abilities; we adapt our teaching to suit the children's needs.
(Please click on our end points on the bottom of our page to see how our DT curriculum is structured)