Design & Technology
subject overview
Design and Technology is both a practical and academic subject. It provides our young people with the opportunity to actively respond to class based projects with creativity and rationality. Design and Technology teaches our children how to make important design decisions and how to become more resourceful, innovative, enterprising and capable. Our learners also develop a critical understanding of the impact of design and technology in daily life and the wider world. Design and Technology delivers excellent opportunities for our learners to develop and apply judgements in relation to; aesthetics, economic, moral, social, and of a technological nature in both their own designing and when evaluating the work of others.
UNIT OVERVIEW - AUTUMN TERM
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Rationale |
It is essential for learners to be able to follow the design process, not only for undertaking the NEA, but also as a life skill. There will be time in their lives where they may purchase or rent their own home and these skill will give them an insight into how to apply their design knowledge to real life situations e.g. planning how a home will flow/look. Understanding how to research existing product will help learners in their future lives and they will be able to compare products and make better choices. Having basic drawing skill is also useful particularly when explain or show others how you want a space to look e.g. design a garden or creating a mood board. |
UNIT OVERVIEW - SPRING TERM
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It is an important life skill to be able to use a range of tools with confidence. It is also essential to know how to maintain tools which are used in practical situations e.g. changing blades, drill bits and saw blades. Understanding the Health and Safety implications on using a variety of tool will also benefit the learners and may prevent any future injuries, their knowledge could also be shared with others. These skills can be used in all walks of life and in a variety of situation. We are now living in a time where more consideration is taken when it comes to fixing or replacing products, due to limited resources. |
UNIT OVERVIEW - SUMMER TERM
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Having the skills to evaluate a task in depth is effective in most walks of life. Most work tasks will require some sort of evaluation and following on with improving. This gives our learners the confidence to be able to use evaluation skills in many different ways and for a variety of tasks. |
knowledge Organiser
A knowledge organiser is an important document that lists the important facts that learners should know by the end of a unit of work. It is important that learners can recall these facts easily, so that when they are answering challenging questions in their assessments and GCSE and A-Level exams, they are not wasting precious time in exams focusing on remembering simple facts, but making complex arguments, and calculations.
We encourage all pupils to use them by doing the following:
- Quiz themselves at home, using the read, write, cover, check method.
- Practise spelling key vocabulary
- Further researching people, events and processes most relevant to the unit.