At Ryelands Primary and Nursery School the aims of Design and Technology are to provide opportunities for children to experience designing, making and modifying and to use a wide range of materials including card, textiles, construction materials and food. We aim to develop children’s design and technology capability using knowledge and skills from a wide range of other curriculum areas. This will be achieved through practical activities in which children investigate and make good quality products, fit for their intended purpose. Children will use the design process whereby ideas may be transformed into objects as they continually evaluate their work. They will also have the opportunity to disassemble, investigate and evaluate products. It is hoped that they will have enjoyable, practical, learning experiences.
We plan the activities in Design and Technology so that they build upon the prior learning of the children. We give children of all abilities the opportunity to develop their skills, knowledge and understanding and we also build planned progression, so that the children are increasingly challenged as they move through the school. At Ryelands, our progression documents give clear progression from Nursery to Year 6 in all elements of DT. (Progression in Design and Technology, Progression in DT Textiles, Progression in Mechanisms, Progression in Structures, Progression in Cooking and Nutrition)
Our Seed to Plate document runs alongside the Progress in Food Technology. The aim of this document is to ensure children have knowledge of the variety produce grown within the school grounds, to gain an understanding of the seasonality of the school ground produce available, to use the school grown produce within planned cooking and nutrition lessons where ever possible, to gain an understanding of the origins of sound of the food we eat and to notice the seasonal changes within growth process of produce.
