Intent
In our holy family, we all thrive socially, academically and spiritually to our fullest potential.
At Holy Family, pupils are given the opportunity to experiment with and develop their own ideas and creativity whilst developing key design technology skills. Children learn to plan, design, problem solve and evaluate their own designs, key skills that they will need in future careers helping them to thrive socially and academically whilst recognising and developing their talents to their fullest potential.
Implementation
Design and Technology skills and knowledge are taught across school from EYFS-Y6.
The National Curriculum objectives have been used to create a clear progression document for each year group that ensures progression in skills and knowledge and covers a breath of different media for the children to gain experience in.
Schemes from Twinkl and Plan B should be used to enhance lessons and resources. The planning from the schemes should be adapted onto the Holy Family planning sequence document. Only the learning intentions from the progression document should be used when planning.
Teachers follow a sequence of lessons provided by the coordinator that build on specific design and technology skills and knowledge over time.
The skills and knowledge can be clearly identified by the learning intentions. There should be an opportunity at the end of each sequence for children to apply the skills and knowledge to create a high quality final product from their design.
Each aspect of the sequence is marked using the Holy Family marking policy. Teachers assess pupil attainment and make a best fit judgement at the end of each term.
All lessons are to start with a review of knowledge organisers. These are to remind children of their prior learning within the current project and also skills and knowledge from previous projects. New and previously learnt vocabulary must be shared at the start of each lesson with examples if needed. Learning intentions are to be shared and understood by all pupils.
All lessons are to include high quality modelling of skills and frequent opportunities for pupils to practice and apply these skills, both supported and independently.
All work is to be recorded in work books in either photo form or the original piece.
All lessons should end by reviewing new knowledge, the skills taught and the learning intention.
