Implementation

One Page Wonder- Our Pedagogical Choices

Subject: Design and Technology   Lead: Clare Bouch

ATP’s Design and Technology Webpage

Design and Technology Progression Map and Intent, Implementation and Impact

Pedagogy and Assessment (The Active Ingredients)

• The curriculum is designed to ensure progression of knowledge, understanding and skills required in the National Curriculum.
• Throughout the school, children experience a broad range of experiences to lead on to designing and making their own products.
• Science, maths, computing and English knowledge and skills are woven through the teaching and learning with Design and Technology.
• Inspiring texts and interesting hooks are used as a stimulus for Design and Technology projects to provoke questions and develop an understanding of how things are made.
• Links are made within science to investigate suitable materials for projects.
• Opportunities are provided for children to find out about key individuals who have helped to shape the world, showing the impact of design and technology on the wider environment and helping to inspire children to become the next generation of innovators.
• The impact of using the full range of resources seen across the school with an increase in the profile of Design and Technology.
• Pupils inspired to design, create, take risks, produce and evaluate independently.
• Design and Technology vocabulary to be displayed in floor books and will be referred to during lessons, allowing children opportunities to repeat and revise prior learning embedding into long term retention.
• Crib sheet for DT to help with planning - DT crib sheet
• Projects on a page introduced in Summer 2022 to support staff with planning and to give more structure to DT across the school - Projects on a page
• Whole school long term curriculum map put in place - curriculum map
• Resources purchased across the school to ensure that everybody has the resources they need to teach their projects. Borrowing of resources from our local Teach Computing Hub to link Computing and DT in Key Stage 2.
• Folders purchased to store each class's DT project pages and examples of work produced/photographs to be added on to the sheets during the project.
• DT floor books for each year group to show Investigative and evaluative activities (IEA’s),

focussed tasks (FT’s) - Taught specific technical knowledge, designing skills and making skills and design, make and evaluate assignment (DMEA) - Children create functional products with users and purposes in mind.

• Assessment on Insight is updated at the end of each unit and based on end of key stage DT objectives for the whole school.

CPD: (The How)

• Staff use G-Suite for education which allows for more collaboration with other staff members and also within job shares. Planning/policies etc are all saved in the shared drive so can be accessed by all staff both at school and home.
• Staff meeting time used to introduce projects on a page and discuss how to teach DT and evidence work.
• STEM lessons for Year 4, 5 and 6 at the FAB lab and include CPD for staff (2023-2025).