About this curriculum

Our curriculum is built on the idea that problem-solving should be a real and relevant endeavor. We move beyond textbook exercises and hypothetical scenarios to engage children in projects that have immediate and tangible implications.

Intent

At Widey Court Primary School, it is our intent for our Design and Technology curriculum to inspire all children, regardless of need or barrier, to use creative and critical thinking to create innovative designs which solve real and relevant problems. During Design and Technology lessons, pupils will follow a continuous process of Evaluate, Design, Make, Evaluate to help them: critically evaluate existing products, design and produce products, evaluate their own products, while considering the client, purpose and design brief throughout.

Through the evaluation of past and present products, they develop a critical understanding of the impact of the product on daily life and the wider world. Opportunities are provided for children to evaluate key products and individuals that have helped shape the world, showing the real impact of design and technology on the wider environment and helping to inspire children to become the next generation of innovators.

Wherever possible, we link Design and Technology to other disciplines such as mathematics, science, computing and art. The Design and Technology curriculum is designed to develop a deep body of knowledge and skills that are progressive, as well as transferrable not just throughout their time at Widey but beyond into further education and the world of work. Thy will learn a progressive set of techniques that will support them in this.

Implementation

In our teaching we use an enquiry-based approach through the use of enquiry questions. The key concepts for Design and Technology – design, make and evaluate - are taught through every enquiry question and the specific technical knowledge and skills of cooking and nutrition, textiles, structures, mechanism, electrical systems and computing (KS2) are carefully planned by creating a medium-term plan to ensure coverage, continuity and progress in learning. The curriculum makes use of prior knowledge and revision of ideas to help build a depth to children's understanding, then builds on prior knowledge alongside introducing new skills, knowledge and challenge. To support pupils to know and remember more, concepts from previous years are referred to and built upon.

Every child, regardless of their barriers to learning, achieve and understand the full Design and Technology curriculum. Technical knowledge and key vocabulary are explicitly identified in each enquiry and this is made clear to the children through our knowledge organisers and use of ROCKS (Remembering Our Curriculum Knowledge and Skills). The revision and introduction of key vocabulary is built into each lesson, with opportunities to repeat and revise this knowledge. Every child has a copy of the Design Make Evaluate model in their books and knowledge organisers containing all learning objectives are shared with parents. Through Design and Technology lessons, we intend to inspire pupils and practitioners to develop a love of Design and Technology and see how it has helped shape the ever-evolving technological world they live in.

Impact

Impact of teaching and learning will be determined through subject monitoring, SLT reviews and teacher assessment of each child’s Design and Technology knowledge at the end of each unit. We will know if we have planned carefully for progress and achievement if children have met their ‘end points’ or age-specific national expectations for pupils at the end of Key Stage 1 and again at the end of Key Stage 2.

We will also know that children are successful if they consistently use Design and Technology technical vocabulary within their learning and through the use of success criteria.. We will know if children have made progress if they can talk confidently about the areas and enquiries they have studied using ROCKS questioning, as well as knowledge organisers. Learning will be successful if it is able to be retrieved from pupil’s long-term memory and be further built upon.

We want to instil a love of Design and Technology by pupils across school, therefore encouraging them to want to continue building on this wealth of skills and understanding, now and in the future.

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Saturday morning activities…part 2! ⭐️💚
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The members of our choir, Mrs Irvine and Mrs Keach had a wonderful time at Manadon Vale yesterday! ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Morning campers! The best first night! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Ready for our three course breakfast!!!
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Evening activities and fun done for the night! Children have had a nibble from the treat box and are now getting ready for bed! Night Night! X x 💚
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Year 4 are settling into Barton Hall life! Enjoy our first meal! We have full bellies before heading to our rooms and then we have an evening of games! 💚⭐️
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It was a pleasure to accompany Miss Davies and a few Year 6s to a rounders evening at Stoke Damerel after school tonight! The children worked so well as a team showing respect and encouragement with each other …especially in this heat! Thank you for organising Miss Davies! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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So proud of our Field Gun crews who competed on the Hoe for Armed Forces Day. They won 4 trophies!!🏆🏆🏆🏆. Well done to everyone involved and thank you to those who came to support! 👏🏼🥳
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A special thank you to Scaff-Tec for sponsoring our ‘Runners’ field gun team! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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A special thank you to PQA for sponsoring our ‘Gunners’ field gun team! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Good luck to our two field gun crews today! If you are up on the Hoe today, here are the times of our runs: Gunners: 10:30 13:10 16:30 Runners: 11.20 14:00 15:50 Hope to see you there! 💚⭐️💚⭐️
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Year 5 have had a fabulous day at Lead Learners Day at Sir John Hunt secondary school! They had a fun day of sport, art, IT, biology and team games! A little taster of what’s to come when they reach Year 7! ⭐️💚⭐️💚
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Getting ready for armed forces day!! With one of our sponsor’s logos displayed behind our tent! Good luck to our two field gun teams ahead of the tournament tomorrow! A huge thank you to Mrs Maiden, Mr Rea, Mrs Lambourne and Leon for getting the children prepped and ready over the last few months! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ If you are the Hoe tomorrow, please come and support our two teams!
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We are so very sad to say goodbye to Mrs Maiden today. We wish her all the best in her new role as Family and Community Solutions Co-ordinator - the families will be so lucky to work with you! ⭐️ Heartfelt thanks for all your support over the last 16.5 years with our pupils, staff, families and wider community! You will be missed! X x 💚💚
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Can you spot our decorated field gun wheels? Thank you Mrs Maiden and Year 6 forces children! ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Superb performance tonight! A little snippet from the Big Sing + ⭐️🎤🎶 We are so proud of you!
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We are so proud of our Big Sing + Choir who are performing alongside the Legacy Choir and school choirs from across the City! Thank you Mrs Irvine for organising this very special event! 🎶🎤⭐️
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Year 4 are working had at the tennis tournament at Life Centre! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLAOfMKtleD/?igsh=azF6OHluOGZyczdi Geddon….! Look who’s back at Widey Court! This year designing and making pizzas! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ We can’t wait! 🍕Curly Gaz is back!
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Our Year 6 Service children worked hard with Mrs Dawes to decorate three field gun wheels. They depicted Communication, Home & Deployment. These will form part of a display in Drakes Circus from Monday 23 June leading up to Armed Forces Day on 28 June. Well done!! They look amazing!⭐️
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