Our School Vision

Our school is a community where each person is valued as a child of God. We are a Church of England school, inspired and guided by the life and teaching of Jesus. We work together to create a caring, friendly and safe school family, to enable the whole school community to flourish and each person reach their full God-given potential.

This document is devised to support this vision, and has the following intentions:

· Pupils are empowered to develop the hope and perseverance necessary to engage the challenges of maths in the context of school and the wider world.

· Teaching staff seek out every opportunity to ensure that all pupils flourish in maths lessons, developing wisdom and creativity through an ambitious and broad curriculum that challenges expectations, deepens knowledge and develops skills.

· Design and Technology lessons are inclusive, so everyone is valued and respected – and tolerance and diversity are celebrated.

Intent

At Donnington Wood CE Junior School, we aim to ensure that our pupils flourish and become confident, efficient designers. We believe children should learn through a variety of creative and practical activities, pupils should be taught the knowledge, understanding and skills needed to engage in the process of designing and making. Through Design and Technology children learn to think and intervene creatively to solve problems both as individuals and within a team.

Our Design and Technology curriculum is focused upon the following beliefs:

· Children will take an active part in Design and Technology lessons.

· Children will enjoy exploring the design process.

· Children will develop a deeper understanding of the Design and Technology curriculum.

· Children will understand the relevance of design and technology in the real world.

Implementation

The teaching and implementation of the Design and Technology curriculum is based on the National Curriculum ensuring a well-structured approach to the subject.

Our detailed units of work and lesson plans follow our school design and technology process which supports children in developing well embedded disciplinary knowledge. It does this by encouraging children to ask questions, imagine ways to solve problems, investigate existing products and the technical knowledge needed, plan their designs, create their products, reflect on their own designs through evaluating and improving their product to support their future designing, and sharing their product to their consumers.

Design and Technology lessons provide children an opportunity to work practically, both independently and collaboratively, to develop and embed taught subject specific knowledge in a range of contexts. Through these lessons children develop the skills of resilience and become reflective learners.

Throughout their time at school children will engage with different strands of design and technology including Structures, Mechanisms, Textiles, Electrical systems and Food and Nutrition. Throughout these strands children will have ample opportunity to incorporate Computer-Aided Design (CAD).

Impact

By the end of Key Stage 2, pupils will:

· Talk with confidence about what they have learned, using correct terminology.

· Be enthused and interested in Design and Technology.

· Access, enjoy and make progress within the curriculum – regardless of their starting points, or any additional needs they may have.

· Know, apply and understand the knowledge, skills and processes specified in the relevant National Curriculum programmes of study.

· Have a deep understanding of the Donnington Wood Junior School Design and Technology process to equip them to learn well when they encounter new knowledge in Key Stage 3 and future learning.

· Have a coherent knowledge and understanding of the design, make, evaluate cycle and how its process helps to develop appealing and functional products.

· Demonstrate an understanding of key events and individuals have shaped the world as we know it. They should understand how the design and technology process relate to products and ideas in the real world.