DT Intent, Implementation and Impact
Intent
- Provide opportunities for our children to be creative and innovative; to design and make products that solve real and relevant problems.
- Provide opportunities for children to excel in DT
- Reflect upon, critique and evaluate past, present and own design technology, its uses and its effectiveness to broaden and deepen knowledge.
- Refine skills, knowledge, concepts and values to enable children to take risks and become innovators.
- Link work to other disciplines such as mathematics, science, engineering, computing and art.
Implementation
- Our D&T curriculum has a clear progression of skills.
- Our CRAVE ‘topic’ curriculum ensures a full half term of dedicated D & T coverage.
- Lessons are planned with challenges for children of all abilities so that they can make progress and excel.
- Well planned project ideas reflect originality in thinking and promote design making decisions that make links with the world around them.
- All D & T projects build towards a whole school showcase where children’s work is celebrated.
Impact
- Children confidently develop their design, make, evaluate and technical skills to at least meet National Standards
- Children see D & T as a purposeful subject that inspires future study and links across other domains.
- Children are engaged and inspired by the D & T curriculum.
- Through discussion and feedback, children will evaluate what they have produced and the journey they made to design and make it.
DT Topic Overview
At Bramley Vale, we follow a two yearly plan to ensure the curriculum is fully covered. The outline plan for both Cycle 1 and Cycle 2 is listed below. Each half term, we try to have a school trip or experience linked to our topic for wider learning experiences. If you have any questions about this, please contact the school.
DT Policy, Progression, Skills and Knowledge
Early Years- Woodland Adventurers
Success Criteria:
Children will learn knowledge and vocabulary to develop their own ideas and learn skills to express them. They will explore materials and construction using different techniques, tool safety, survival, cause and effect and seasonal weather. They will achieve this through our Teaching Sequence: teach knowledge; teach skills; give design brief; children design it; make/create/build; evaluate.
The children received a letter from Henry the hedgehog who lives in our Bramley Vale woodland. Henry was keen for the children to construct hedgehog houses for him and his family as the weather was changing and they were getting ready to hibernate for the winter. As expected, the children showed much kindness and could not wait to make a start!
Wacky Racers!
Friday the 13th June 2025 is a day to remembered!
Off timetable for the day and working in their Houses, classes 3, 4, 5 and 6 were tasked with creating a racer to compete in our Grand Wacky Racers Competition. Early Years also joined in the fun and created their own racers in teams. There were some very strict rules of engagement to ensure that it was a fair contest. With two categories – gravity and powered- the children had to recall prior knowledge to construct their cars such as wheels and axles, frame building and motors. Alongside this, the children needed to polish up on their teamwork skills and also identify each others strengths to allocate jobs such as designers, builders and the artists.
The day was a complete and utter success! Parents were invited to the Wacky Races at the end of the day in the hall and there was much fun and laughter.
Congratulations to Hardwick Hall and Bolsover for their winning entries.
