Orrell Lamberhead Green
Design Technology at Orrell Lamberhead Green
In an ever-changing world and an ever-changing technical society, we always look back to the past for the examples but to the future for solutions. The study of Design Technology enables us to develop a better understanding of the technical and creative world around us thus enabling us to participate in its evolution. Design Technology provides a platform for people to understand and acknowledge a variety of cultures and their contribution to a range of technical advances whilst also providing a sense of identity.
The Design Technology opportunities devised for children are of a high standard and quality to ensure that all children regardless of ability and social background are educated within a broad and balanced curriculum. Design Technology lessons generally have the scope to include a variety of additional opportunities including links with historical, geographical, science, and literacy to name a few.
Where possible, Design Technology focuses on supporting the development of spiritual, moral, social, and cultural development.
Support
At Orrell Lamberhead Green Primary school we understand the importance of Design and Technology. We understand the opportunities children can have when they have the correct skills to design their future. A child’s journey into the world of design and technology starts in our early years’ classrooms. Children learn how to better understand the world around them and express themselves in creative ways. During every child’s journey here at Orrell Lamberhead Green Academy, we quickly identify their individual starting points within the Design Technology framework. This enables our highly trained staff to ensure each, and every child’s design journey starts with the correct foundations with which to build on.
Our Design Technology curriculum offers lots of opportunities for quality speaking and listening activities which are fundamental in the learning process. Therefore, we provide high quality resources and opportunities that will create discussions and debates within the lessons allowing children to discuss their projects; assess and evaluate each other's projects in a constructive environment. We encourage critical thinking and self-reflection, a skill that can be transferred throughout life.
Inspire
We want all our children to realise the opportunities that Design Technology can provide for their future success in life. Within the Design Technology curriculum, we have identified a broad range of experiences and included the necessary design and making skills which are in-line with National Curriculum expectations. Design and technology prides itself on allowing moral, social and cultural experiences. Children may be inspired to care for the environment after design and technology allows them to explore different resources and better understand what environmental impact, we as consumers are having on the planet. Design technology supports social development and cultural development by encouraging children to reflect on ingenious products and inventions.
Children are taught a bespoke curriculum designed by teachers. Our curriculum allows children to get creative and build on prior knowledge further embedding skills and learning. Our curriculum can also be linked to other topics of work or subjects, this allows children to create cognitive links between subjects and allows teachers to deliver a breadth and depth of knowledge.
Prepare
Each and every child will directly gain from a careful and deliberately planned curriculum which has been carefully design to meet the core principles of the design process. This enables all our children to appreciate, experience, and develop skills in the whole design and making process. We take a real sense of pride in knowing our Design Technology curriculum will prepare all our children for the next steps in their education through onto high school and beyond; therefore, each carefully planned unit of work gradually develops every child's personal skill-set, technical knowledge and technical vocabulary so that the process develops the child year on year. All learning tasks draw on the prescribed designing principles embedded in 'good practice'.
Through our Design Technology curriculum, our children will be able to:
• Understand and use a wide range of design and technological vocabulary and key terms:
Within our lessons, we will provide children with opportunities to use and understand key vocabulary that is appropriate to their age-related expectations or where applicable, beyond which will enable them to progress to the next year group or within life skills.
• Use this knowledge to make connections and contrasts, ask valid design or technical questions, and enable them to successfully evaluate and analyse work in progress or the completed product:
Each lesson will allow our children to fully explore their work and that of their peers through the use of constructive and positive feedback using a range of assessment criteria including, teacher assessment, self-assessment, and peer-assessment.
• Write as designers, create their own, narratives, and analysis using a range of literary skills.
Outcomes will enable children to take their skills and knowledge and create, design or write with their newly acquired information. Children must not only gain new knowledge, but they must use it in a constructive format.
• Be able to use both primary and secondary sources in their design and making process.
Using artefacts, books, newspapers, computers, documents, and other sources of technical or innovative information will allow our children to explore technology through historical reason, facts, and accomplishments - allowing them to develop their own style and achievements.
• Understand why some people interpret and design products differently.
We will endeavour to provide our children with multiple viewpoints or examples of technological achievement or underachievement. It is important our children understand other people's ideas and inspirations of the same type of invention or product in order to finalise their own. This will provide our children with an unbiased understanding thus allowing them to create their own ideas or products.
• Gain a more knowledgeable and intuitive perspective, by considering contexts such as location, economics, politics, religion and cultural significance of the design and technology reasoning and processes.
For our children to really understand the design and making process fully, they must draw on their knowledge from other areas of the curriculum such as science, history and the arts.
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