Curriculum Intent

At Bitterne Manor our children will gain experience and skills of a wide range of formal elements of design and concepts of technology in a way that will enhance their learning opportunities, enabling them to use design and technology across a range of subjects to be creative and solve problems, ensuring they make progress.

Curriculum Implementation

We follow a broad and balanced Design and Technology curriculum that builds on prior learning and ensures clear progression of skills across the school. Pupils take part in a range of creative and practical activities where they learn to design, make and evaluate products for different purposes and contexts.

Projects are carefully sequenced and focus on key areas such as structures, mechanisms, textiles, and cooking and nutrition. Children develop their designing, planning, making and evaluating skills through an iterative process, gradually using a wider range of tools, materials and techniques as they progress.

Where possible, links are made with other subjects to support deeper learning. Practical tasks help pupils build the knowledge and skills needed to complete independent design challenges, while learning to work safely and hygienically.

Curriculum Impact

Design and Technology is enjoyed by teachers and pupils across our school. There is evidence of progression in skills and opportunities to explore a range of techniques. Children are confident in using technical vocabulary when evaluating their own work and commercially produced products. They are able to make decisions about their work in order to evaluate and improve. All children in school can speak confidently about their Design and Technology work and the skills they have applied.