DT

Intent

Design and Technology is an imaginative, relevant and challenging subject. Equipped with developing practical skills and knowledge, children take inspiration from the wider world to design and innovate, create and evaluate. Design and Technology gives children an opportunity to understand how they have the ability to make a positive contribution to the world, both now and in the future. The Design and Technology curriculum at Brunel Field aims to develop children’s skills and knowledge in design, structures, mechanisms, electrical control and a range of materials, including food. It encourages children's creativity and encourages them to think about resolving important issues.

Implementation

At Brunel Field, DT is a fully integrated subject across the curriculum and is delivered as a way of helping answer our enquiry questions. We encourage children to use their creativity and imagination, to research, design and make products that solve real and relevant problems within a variety of contexts, considering their own and others’ needs, wants and values. We stimulate children to think and intervene creatively to solve problems both as individuals and as members of a team. We aim to, wherever possible, link work to other disciplines such as Mathematics, Science, Computing and Art. At Brunel Field, we also value the importance of giving children opportunities to reflect upon and evaluate past and present design technology, its uses and its effectiveness and encourage them to become innovators, risk-takers and reflective learners. Together with our whole school Core Learning Skills approach, the D&T curriculum at Brunel Field places great impetus on the learning skills required to solve problems through creative thinking, independence and resilience.