Our DT curriculum intends to develop pupils who are confident and innovative designers, with a wide variety of design skills that they can use across the curriculum and for their own enjoyment.

At Tattingstone Primary, we believe that learning is a change in long term memory. We believe children learn best by having opportunities to revisit previous learning. We teach DT every term to ensure that the children can fully immerse themselves and have opportunities to reflect and build on prior learning and skills.

We want children to:

• develop the creative, technical and practical expertise needed to perform everyday tasks confidently and to participate successfully in an increasingly technological world
• build and apply a repertoire of knowledge, understanding and skills in order to design and make high-quality prototypes and products for a wide range of users
• critique, evaluate and test their ideas and products and the work of others
• understand and apply the principles of nutrition and learn how to cook

We use the concepts of mastering practical techniques, designing, making, evaluating, improving and taking inspiration from design to inform our planning.

We select our units from the PlanBee Curriculum document. The exact units are in our medium term plan.