Design Technology

• To create a stimulating environment that encourages pupils to question and learn about familiar and new products.
• To capture pupil's imaginations and develop their abilities whilst having fun.
• Encourage problem solving using a range of materials and techniques both traditional and state of the art.
• To enable children to explore and develop their creative boundaries in a safe and structured environment.
• To teach pupils to work, individually, in pairs or in groups, with a variety of approaches.
• To teach and use presentation techniques from sketching, formal drawing to desk top publishing and Computer aided design.
• To create and nurture an interest in careers in any field of the technologies; engineering, architecture, product design, electronics etc.

Basic Curriculum

• Year 8 – Acrylic clocks and automatas.
• Year 7 – Spaghetti bridges and acrylic clocks
• Year 6 – Green goblin electric cart and traditional wooden racing cars.
• Year 5 – Fuse tester (basic electronics).
• Year 4 – Blister packages and torch product model.
• Year 3 – Introduction to DT basic sketching and using computers using CAD to design a watch and box.

Extra curriculum - DT Occupations.

• More advanced electronics, I pod stereo amplifier circuit.
• Cricket bats (traditional products).
• Contemporary furniture design
• Coracle building
• Model railways