Design & Technology
At Green Oaks we are committed to learning for life. We understand that our children live in an ever changing world and that they will need the skills and attributes to be part of a global community.
In partnership with Hampshire we follow the National Curriculum which aims to ensure all pupils:
- produce creative work, exploring their ideas and recording their experiences
- become proficient in drawing, painting, sculpture and other art, craft and design techniques
- evaluate and analyse creative works using the language of art, craft and design
- know about great artists, craft makers and designers, and understand the historical and cultural development of their art forms
Our Design and Technology curriculum is taught to enable our children to develop the knowledge, skills, values and attitudes that they will need to participate fully in an ever-evolving, modern society. We intend for them to understand the links and connections between products (food, electrical and mechanical, textiles and structures) the consumers and their uses. Our aim is to engage, inspire and challenge pupils to explore and develop existing products as well as inventing and creating new original and functional products. Our children will understand how to think critically and creatively, problem solve, collaborate and know that Design and Technology both reflect and shape our history and contributes to the culture and creativity of their own and the wider community.
Implementation
We believe that children learn best through a thematic approach where they are able to build curriculum knowledge through a precisely planned sequence of learning steps within the individual subject domain but also to make links across other curriculum subjects. Children should understand how their learning links together across lessons, across year groups and across Key Stages.
In Years 1-6, lessons are taught weekly, commonly in 3 half term units over the year and children will understand how their learning links together across lessons, terms and year groups by regularly revisiting prior learning. Pupils respond to a brief within design and technology that supports them to use specific techniques and problem solving skills to create innovative solutions.
Design and technology planning has been developed by teachers based on National Curriculum objectives in partnership with Hampshire and linked to our Curriculum themes. Teachers personalise the learning for specific pupils to enable every child to access the learning successfully. Vocabulary related to design and technology is directly taught and children have regular opportunities to use and apply this in their learning. In Key stage 1 classes create a floor book to record progression through the learning journeys. In Key Stage 2 children have individual books, which progress with them throughout the junior school.
