Our Approach to Design & Technology
At Neasden Primary, Design and Technology will be taught through the following lenses:
These are golden threads that run through the curriculum across the primary phase and pupils progress through these strands from introduction to a deep understanding.
The EYFS curriculum provides the building blocks to allow pupils at the beginning of Year 1 to access this curriculum. Pupils will gain significant knowledge of all aspects of the Design and Technology National Curriculum by engaging in a variety of creative and practical activities working through the process of designing, making and evaluating. This knowledge is defined into 2 types – substantive knowledge and disciplinary knowledge.
Substantive knowledge in design and technology is based on the knowledge of four key elements of the process of design (design, make, evaluate and technical knowledge). Technical knowledge is the golden thread that runs throughout the DT curriculum.
Disciplinary knowledge in design and technology is the process of enabling children to use their substantive knowledge of products and materials around them to make links between and across different areas of the curriculum. Disciplinary knowledge will be taught, reactivated and developed every term, through each unit and is detailed in the table at the end of this document. Cooking and Nutrition will be taught each term throughout the year allowing pupils to learn, practise and apply key techniques.
For more information regarding the National Curriculum for Design and Technology, please click here.