Shiphay Learning Academy
Design and Technology
At Shiphay, the Design and Technology curriculum is designed to provide challenge and real opportunities in order to prepare pupils for the future.
Our curriculum provides opportunities for children to create products that they can see, touch and taste for themselves, whilst also providing a motivating context for developing literacy, mathematics, science, art and ICT.
To achieve this, children learn about the designed world through research and analysis, before learning to design and make functional products with particular purposes and users in mind. Through the evaluation of past and present design and technology, they develop a critical understanding of its impact on daily life and the wider world.
At its core, each unit of work follows the design, make, evaluate, improve and re-evaluate cyclical pattern. Furthermore, skills are taught progressively across the key stages to ensure all children are able to embed and practise the integral elements of the design process.
Our curriculum is also designed to encourage depth of learning across the three main Design and Technology strands – engineering (including mechanisms, mechanical systems, electrical system and structures, textiles and food technology. These strands are mapped across the school to ensure appropriate weighting and to ensure all curriculum objectives are met.
At Shiphay, units of work are taught termly and are linked to themes, where possible, to encourage cross-curricular learning. For example, in Year 5, children create hedgehog/bird homes as part of their unit on frame structures to accompany their work on Living Things and their Habitats. Links to our locality are also emphasised and woven into planning, for example in Year 1, where children learn about bridges there are links to Geography and Brunel bridge.
Design & Technology long-term plan
EYFS |
Autumn |
Spring |
Summer |
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Nursery |
Textiles Fabric and embellishment collage |
Food Tech Porridge – The Three Bears |
Engineering (Structures) Building Bridges – Three Billy Goats Gruff |
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Reception |
Engineering (Structures) Christmas Box Design |
Food Tech Lunch boxes (Healthy Eating) |
Food Tech Bread baking/breadsticks |
KS1 |
Autumn |
Spring |
Summer |
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Y1 |
Food Tech Healthy eating – smoothie |
Engineering (Structures) Freestanding structures – (Geography - Brunel Bridge - Explorers) |
Engineering (Mechanisms) (History - Toy Levers) |
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Y2 |
Food Tech Bread- design and make own bread based on investigating breads from around the world |
Engineering (Mechanisms) Wheels and axles (History - horse and carriage (Great Fire of London) |
Textiles Hand Puppets (English - Little Red Riding Hood) |
LKS2 |
Autumn |
Spring |
Summer |
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Y3 |
Engineering (Mechanisms) Moving Christmas Cards (RE - Religious celebration) |
Textiles 2-D shape to 3-D product – story bags (Love of Reading) |
Food Tech Garden Herbs and Salads (Science - Healthy Eating) |
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Y4 |
Engineering (Electrical Systems) Electrical circuits / hand buzzer game (Science - Electricity) |
Food Tech Seasonal Biscuits (Easter) (RE - Religious celebration) |
Engineering (Structures) veg box / packaging including computer aided design (History - Box used in farming) |
UKS2 |
Autumn |
Spring |
Summer |
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Y5 |
Textiles Christmas Stockings – combining fabric shapes (RE - Religious celebration) |
Engineering (Structures) hedgehog house (Science - Living Things and Their Habitats) |
Engineering (Mechanisms) Cams – moving planets (Science - Earth and Space) |
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Y6 |
Food Tech Grab and Go Snacks (Science - Healthy Eating) |
2 Design Technology Units taught in the summer term |
Engineering (Electrical Systems) Complex switch- making torches then gadgets (Wallace and Gromit style inventions - stand alone project/linked to English writing an advert) Engineering (Mechanisms) (Wallace and Gromit style inventions - stand alone project/linked to English writing an advert) |