Why do we learn design technology?
Design and Technology empowers students to recognize, analyze, and address challenges through innovative thinking, strategic planning, and design implementation using various mediums, materials, and tools. Students acquire technical and design proficiency, fostering skills like initiative, resourcefulness, inquiry, and creativity. Additionally, they enhance their communication abilities essential for design creation and assessment.
Head of Department
Lauren Van der Linden
Mr Paton
Primary
We believe that the subjects of art and design technology embody some of the highest forms of human creativity and as such, we seek to engage, inspire and challenge pupils, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to experiment, invent and create their own works of art and design. We have deliberately planned our art and design technology units to ensure that key foci for each subject are spread over the year, ensuring there are opportunities for children to explore a range of media, materials, tools and concepts over the course of their journey in the primary phase. Additionally, our art curriculum has been designed to incorporate the teaching of key art skills (line, colour, shape, form, pattern, texture) which have been mapped across Key Stage 1 and 2 to ensure these skills are revisited.
Year 1
Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 |
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Art Unit taught | Art Unit taught |
Spring 1 | Spring 2 |
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DT Focus: Materials and Mechanisms Design and create a vehicle |
Art Unit taught |
Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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DT Focus: Design and Mechanisms Create a picture with multiple moving parts |
DT focus: Food Making fruit kebabs |
Year 2
Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 |
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Art Unit taught | Art Unit taught |
Spring 1 | Spring 2 |
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DT Focus: Design and Materials Animal hand puppets |
Art Unit taught |
Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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DT Focus: Materials and Structures Pot Plant Holders |
Art Unit taught |
Year 3
Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 |
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Art Unit taught |
DT Focus: Food Making cookies |
Spring 1 | Spring 2 |
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Art Unit taught |
Art Unit taught |
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DT Focus: Design Designing and Making a shield |
DT Focus: Structures Making mini-greenhouses |
Year 4
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DT Focus: Structures Making a viking ship |
Art Unit taught |
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Art Unit taught |
Art Unit taught |
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DT Focus: Design and Materials Making a diorama |
Art Unit taught |
Year 5
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Art Unit taught |
Art Unit taught |
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DT Focus: Food Baking Bread |
Art Unit taught |
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Art Unit taught |
DT Focus: Design and Mechanisms Design and make a toy |
Year 6
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Art Unit taught |
Art Unit taught |
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Art Unit taught |
Art Unit taught |
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DT Focus: Design and Materials Design and make a bird box |
DT Focus: Structures and Mechanisms Construct a working fairground ride |
Secondary
In years 7 and 8, students explore creativity through a variety of projects which explore Art, Design and Technology. Thise gives students a broad experience of different materials, techniques and processes, facilited by the investigation of a wide range of artists, designers and movements. In Year 9 Art and DT and studied individually, with Art continuing to investigate the world informed by practicing artists.
KS4 DT explores 6 material groups. These are: Woods, metals, plastics, electronics, papers and boards and textiles. For all these groups, we will learn about the journey of the material, from where it comes from to how we make products with it and how we dispose of it. We go into further detail with timbers and polymers as they are our specialist materials. For these materials, we learn about industrial machines that we can use with them and what products we can make. There is also a huge amount of practical work which takes place as part of our NEA and also it helps us learn the theory for our exam. Our students learn how to use machinery and tools in our workshop such as saws, sanding machines and a laser cutter. For the NEA, students create their own product from start to finish. They begin researching around an area that intersts them, designing a product and then making it independently.
Year 7
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Portraiture | Technical Drawing |
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2D Design | Food and Nutrition |
Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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Photoshop |
Keyring |
Year 8
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Peony Yip - Printing | Food & Nutrition |
Spring 1 | Spring 2 |
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Art Deco lamp | Art Deco lamp |
Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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Typographic Sculpture | Grayson Perry pots |
Year 9
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Art Deco Chair - prototype making |
Art Deco Chair - prototype making |
Spring 1 | Spring 2 |
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Tote bag - textiles |
Tote bag - textiles |
Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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Jewellery - Metal work |
Jewellery - Metal work |
Year 10
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Culture and society |
Materials and their working properties |
Spring 1 | Spring 2 |
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Materials and finishes |
Design and making |
Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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Practice NEA |
Real NEA and revision |
All Year 10 subjects Next Year 10 Subject - Business Studies
Year 11
Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 |
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NEA research. Papers and boards | NEA designing. Uses of materials and finishes |
Spring 1 | Spring 2 |
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NEA making. Industrial processes | NEA making. Revision |
Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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Revision | GCSE exams |
All Year 11 subjects Next Year 11 Subject - Business Studies
Sixth Form
KS5 product design explores materials, industry and designing and making principles. The theory leraning expands on GCSE content and the students explore a range of materials and their journey from extraction through to production, use and then disposal. The materials we learn about are timbers, metals, polymers, papers and boards. There is a lot of in depth information on how products are made in the real world, we learn about manufacturing techniques and equipment and how to use them effectively. In the NEA part of the course, the students create a product of their choice. They spend time researching to discover an area of need to create a product that solves a problem. From their research, they will design and prototype their ideas. They then use our workshop and equipment to build the product they have designed.
Year 12
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Mini projects to use equipment and materials. Performance characteristics of materials | Further skills projects. metal and woods. Materials processes |
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Polymer skills project. Adhesives, fixtures and finishes | Mini NEA. Scales of production, virtual modeiling |
Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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Mini NEA. feasability studies and disassembly | Mini NEA |
All Year 12 subjects Next Year 12 Subject - Business Studies
Year 13
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NEA. Industrial processes | NEA. Marketing and business viability |
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NEA. Maths questions | NEA. Digital design and manufacture. Enterprise. |
Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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NEA & revision | Exam |
All Year 13 subjects Next Year 13 Subject - Business Studies