Design and Technology
Technology Statement of Intent
At Shanklea Primary School we aim to provide a high-quality technology curriculum which inspires pupils to be innovative and creative thinkers who have an appreciation for the product design cycle through ideation, creation, and evaluation. We want pupils to develop the confidence to take risks, through drafting design concepts, modelling, and testing and to be reflective learners who evaluate their work and the work of others. At Shanklea, we follow the Kapow scheme of work. Through this scheme, we aim to build an awareness of the impact of design and technology on our lives and encourage pupils to become resourceful, enterprising citizens who will have the skills to contribute to future design advancements.
Aims
We aim to ensure that all pupils:
● Understand the functional and aesthetic properties of a range of materials and resources.
● Understand how to use and combine tools to carry out different processes for shaping, decorating, and manufacturing products.
● Build and apply a repertoire of skills, knowledge and understanding to produce high quality, innovative outcomes, including models, prototypes, CAD, and products to fulfil the needs of users, clients, and scenarios.
● Understand and apply the principles of healthy eating, diets, and recipes, including key processes, food groups and cooking equipment.
● Have an appreciation for key individuals, inventions, and events in history and of today that impact our world.
● Recognise where our decisions can impact the wider world in terms of community, social and environmental issues.
● Self-evaluate and reflect on learning at different stages and identify areas to improve.
Subject Content
Key Stage 1
Pupils will be taught:
Structures (Baby Bear’s Chair) – Identify man-made and natural structures. Identify stable and unstable structural shapes. Contribute to discussions. Identify features that make a chair stable. Work independently to make a stable structure, following a demonstration. Explain how their ideas would be suitable for Baby Bear. Produce a model that supports a teddy, using the appropriate materials and construction techniques. Explain how they made their model strong, stiff and stable.
Mechanisms (Fairground Wheel and Making a Moving Monster) –Design and label a wheel. Consider the designs of others and make comments about their practicality or appeal. Consider the materials, shape, construction and mechanisms of their wheel. Label their designs. Build a stable structure with a rotating wheel. Test and adapt their designs as necessary. Follow a design plan to make a completed model of the wheel.
Mechanisms (Making a Moving Monster) – Identify the correct terms for levers, linkages and pivots. Analyse popular toys with the correct terminology. Create functional linkages that produce the desired input and output motions. Design monsters suitable for children, which satisfy most of the design criteria. Evaluate their two designs against the design criteria, using this information and the feedback of their peers to choose their best design. Select and assemble materials to create their planned monster features. Assemble the monster to their linkages without affecting their functionality.
Lower Key Stage 2 –
Pupils will be taught:
Structures (Pavilions) – Produce a range of free-standing frame structures of different shapes and sizes. Design a pavilion that is strong, stable and aesthetically pleasing. Select appropriate materials and construction techniques to create a stable, free-standing frame structure. Select appropriate materials and techniques to add cladding to their pavilion.
Electrical systems (Torches) – Identify electrical products and explain why they are useful. Help to make a working switch. Identify the features of a torch and how it works. Describe what makes a torch successful. Create suitable designs that fit the success criteria and their own design criteria. Create a functioning torch with a switch according to their design criteria.
Mechanical Systems (Making a Slingshot Car) – Work independently to produce an accurate, functioning car chassis. Design a shape that is suitable for the project. Attempt to reduce air resistance through the design of the shape. Produce panels that will fit the chassis and can be assembled effectively using the tabs they have designed. Construct car bodies effectively. Conduct a trial accurately and draw conclusions and improvements from the results.
Upper Key Stage 2 –
Pupils will be taught:
Textiles (Waistcoats) – Consider a range of factors in their design criteria and use this to create a waistcoat design. Use a template to mark and cut out a design. Use a running stitch to join fabric to make a functional waistcoat. Attach a secure fastening, as well as decorative objects. Evaluate their final product.
Structures (Playground) – Create five apparatus designs, applying the design criteria to their work. Make suitable changes to their work after peer evaluation. Make roughly three different structures from their plans using the materials available. Complete their structures, improving the quality of their rough versions and applying some cladding to a few areas. Secure their apparatus to a base. Make a range of landscape features using a variety of materials which will enhance their apparatus.
Digital world (Navigating the world) – Incorporate key information from a client’s design request such as ‘multifunctional’ and ‘compact’ in their design brief. Write a program that displays an arrow to indicate cardinal compass directions with an ‘On start’ loading screen. Identify errors (bugs) in the code and suggest ways to fix (debug) them. Self and peer evaluate a product concept against a list of design criteria with basic statements. Identify key industries that use 3D CAD modelling and why. Recall and describe the name and use of key tools used in Tinkercad (CAD) software. Combine more than one object to develop a finished 3D CAD model in Tinkercad. Complete a product pitch plan that includes key information