Design and Technology
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Curriculum Intent
IPC units of study offer a coherently planned sequence of design technology lessons to help teachers ensure they have progressively covered the knowledge, understanding and skills required in the National Curriculum. Design and Technology through the IPC units of work aim to inspire children through a broad range of practical experiences to create innovative designs, which solve real and relevant problems within a variety of different contexts. The iterative design process is fundamental and runs throughout units of work. This iterative process encourages children to identify real and relevant problems, critically evaluate existing products and then take risks and innovate when designing and creating solutions to the problems. As part of the iterative process, time is built in to reflect, evaluate and improve on prototypes using design criteria throughout to support this process. Opportunities are provided for children to evaluate key events and individuals who 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.
Curriculum Implementation:
Design and Technology skills and understanding are built into lessons, following an iterative process. However, this is not to say that this structure should be followed rigidly: it allows for the revision of ideas to become part of good practice and ultimately helps to build a depth to children’s understanding. Through revisiting and consolidating skills, our lessons and resources help children build on prior knowledge alongside introducing new skills, knowledge and challenge. The IPC have suggested a specific series of lessons for each unit, which will offer structure and narrative but are by no means to be used exclusively, rather to support planning and to ensure National Curriculum content coverage. The diagram below demonstrates our approach to teaching each unit. The revision and introduction of key vocabulary is built into each lesson. This vocabulary is then included in display materials and additional resources to ensure that children are allowed opportunities to repeat and revise this knowledge. Adult guides and accurate design and technology subject knowledge are always provided within lessons to allow the teacher and adults working in those lessons to feel confident and supported with the skills and knowledge that they are teaching.
Through these lessons, we intend to inspire pupils and practitioners to develop a love of Design and Technology and see how it has helped shaped the ever-evolving technological world they live in.
Curriculum impact:
The impact of using the full range of resources, including display materials, will be seen across the school with an increase in the profile of Design and Technology. The learning environment across the school will be more consistent with technical vocabulary displayed, spoken and used by all learners. Whole-school and parental engagement will be improved through the use of DT-specific home learning tasks and opportunities suggested in lessons and topic overviews for wider learning. We want to ensure that Design Technology is loved by teachers and pupils across school, therefore encouraging them to want to continue building on this wealth of skills and understanding, now and in the future. Impact can also be measured through key questioning skills built into lessons, formative assessment rubrics (aimed at targeting next steps in learning) which will lead to end of year summative assessments and end of year subject reviews that will inform the following year’s action plan.
Progression of Skills
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Progression of Language
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