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    Our Overall Aim For Design and Technology at St Laurence’s: 

    “Enabling the learners to grow in skills, live in an ever-changing world and learn in a different way.”  

    Aims of Design and Technology at St Laurence’s 

    We aim to encourage our children to become: 

    •  active learners, problem solvers,  

    • critical thinkers,  

    • creative,  

    • resilient  

    • leaders in a future we cannot envisage. 

     Design and Technology is a subject which aims to: 

    •  teach children about the design of a range of things,  

    • allows them to think and understand how things work,  

    • Understand how things are joined and made.  

    D&T gives children the chance to: 

    • assemble,  

    • disassemble,  

    • plan,  

    • construct  

    • Evaluate. 

    Delivery of Design and Technology at St Laurence’s 

    Design and Technology is taught through a variety of exciting and challenging lessons which are linked with the termly theme. Each unit follows the pattern of research, plan, design and evaluate. The projects will cover the overall Design and Technology core principles: 

    St Laurence's DT Delivery

    Year 1

    Year 2

    KS1

    Me and My School

    Kings, Queens and Castles

    Hot and Cold

    Coventry, My City

    London

    Sea Explorers

    Healthy school lunch

    (Sandwich/wrap)

    Cooking & Nutrition

    Build a castle

    (for a chosen toy)

    Structures

    Bag

    (for book character)

    Textiles

    Moving vehicle

    Mechanisms

    London Landmark

    Structures

    Seaside tray bake

    Cooking & Nutrition

    Year 3

    Year 4

    LKS2

    Tomb Raiders

    It’s a Hard Life!

    A Passport to Europe

    Stars and Stripes

    Here Come the Romans!

    Wild Water

    Storage jar

    (based on Canopic jar)

    Structures

    Rag Rug

    Textiles

    Pizza

    Cooking & Nutrition

    Celebration cake

    Cooking & Nutrition

    This year NEW – Trebuchet 

     

    Structures

    Self-propelling boat

    Mechanisms

    Year 5

    Year 6

    UKS2

    Invaders!

    Rainforest Explorers

    It’s all Greek to me!

    The Coventry Blitz

    Mighty Mountains

    Ground Shakers

    Bread

    Cooking & Nutrition

    Torch / lighting equipment

    Electrical Systems

    Moving toy

    (for theatre)

    Mechanisms

    Mountain explorer soup

    Cooking & Nutrition

    ‘Make do and mend’ toy

    Textiles

    Bridge

     

     Structures