Design and Technology (D&T) at our school is about giving children the skills, knowledge and creativity to design and make purposeful products. We follow the Kapow Primary scheme, which provides a well-structured and engaging curriculum that helps children understand how design and technology impacts everyday life.
The National Curriculum for Design and Technology states that a high-quality D&T education should inspire children to be resourceful, innovative, enterprising and capable citizens. Through Kapow, children learn to research, design, make and evaluate products, developing practical skills in areas such as construction, textiles, mechanisms, electrical systems and food technology. They also learn how design and technology connects with real-world problems and future possibilities.
Through the delivery of Design and Technology, we aim to improve children’ skills in these five areas:
Our Design and Technology curriculum, delivered through Kapow Primary, aims to ensure that all children:
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National Curriculum Design and Technology
Design & Technology – Curriculum Statement
We have carried on working on our truss bridges, but this time using straws. This is because straws are a stronger material for us to use. Everyone worked in teams to develop bridges that were strong. There were some amazing creations. Well done year 5!
Today we have continued our design and technology project of making helmets, which are shell structures. Our focus today was how we can use layering to strengthen the structure of the helmets.
Today year 5 had an exciting lesson making a truss bridge out of spaghetti. It was great to see everybody working as a team to build their bridges! They were then able to test the strength of their bridge and compare them to the arch and beam bridge that we made last week.
Today we created a mock up of our slider game. We discussed the slider mechanism and used the model to test our ideas and what words would work well.
In DT, we have been looking at bridges and their structures. To help us understand the difference between a beam bridge and an arch bridge, we had a go at making both types physically. Year 5 then investigated to see which bridge could hold more weight. We discovered that the structure of the arch bridge was able to carry more weight.
We have begun our DT unit be discussing what we know about different mechanisms and how they move. We have practised using specific vocabulary such as – slider, lever, turn, twist, forwards backwards and left and right. We then went on a mechanism hunt around our school to find sliders. Look at our picture to see what we found.
