Design and Technology

Subject Leader: Mrs Hanson

At CMFS we aim to develop the skills in all children that help prepare them for the rapidly changing world.  We follow the CUSP curriculum for Design and Technology.

Design and Technology is underpinned by the Early Years foundational knowledge. This includes a focus on not only joining, building and assembling – reflecting on their ideas and working collaboratively, but also on nutrition and wellness.

Through our Design and Technology lessons children develop and combine practical skills that encourage them to be independent, creative problem solvers and thinkers, both as individuals and as part of a team. We support children to combine these practical skills with an understanding of aesthetic, social and environmental issues, as well as functions and industrial practices. This allows them to reflect on and evaluate present and past design and technology, its uses and its impacts.

Through the DT curriculum, children should be inspired by engineers, designers, chefs and architects to enable them to create a range of structures, mechanisms, textiles, electrical systems and food products with a real-life purpose. Design and technology helps all children to become discriminating and informed consumers and potential innovators and we aim to instil the belief in our children that they can be the designers of the future.