At Ashurst Wood
How we deliver Design Technology at Ashurst Wood
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.
Throughout their time at Ashurst Wood, children are taught to:
• Design
• Make
• Evaluate
• Develop technical knowledge
These activities are combined in sequence to create a Design and Technology project.
How we deliver Design Technology at Ashurst Wood
At Ashurst Wood Design Technology is organised in a three-year rolling cycle (Except in Eagle class as this is a single year group). Teachers plan against a clear and sequential progression of knowledge. This means that if two-year groups are undertaking the same project they are focussing on different knowledge through the project.
Each year there is a food and nutrition unit and the remaining unit’s cycle through a focus on structures, mechanisms, textiles and the digital world. From September 2024 the school has moved to KPOW to support the delivery of Design technology.
What our children say
I like that you can test things out.
I like getting feedback from my classmates.
You get to take things home.
I like that you can be creative.
You can make decisions and use your own ideas.
We learned to chop and peel safely.
Design Technology at Ashurst Wood
