Design and Technology
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 | |