Design Technology
Curriculum Information
Welcome to Clayton Brook Primary School Design and Technology Curriculum page, we hope that you find some useful information and what to expect from D&T being taught at Clayton Brook.
Our D&T Team is Mrs Monks (Subject Lead) and Mrs Danyardi supported by D&T Subject Ambassador, Callum (Year 6).
Our D and T vision is to creatively design and make products that solve real and relevant problems.
Vision and principles for Design and Technology at Clayton Brook Primary School.
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Overview - Long Term Plan
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Spring 2023
DT around school....
There will be lots of DT learning this term and the DT Subject Team are looking to meet the children to discuss their learning in the coming weeks.
EYFS
Children have access to a variety of resources during Continuous Provision that helps to develop and consolidate knowledge, skills and understanding when designing and making within their play.
Construction Area - Children have access to a variety of construction kits where they can build, join, stack, balance, and adapt their own constructions.
Craft Area -children have the opportunity to use a variety of tools and techniques and processes and select and combine using a variety of materials.
Busy Fingers -The children use tools and techniques used for Design and Technology Such as scissors, punches, threading, sewing, hammering to develop those most important fine motor skills.
Large Outdoor Construction -Outside the children have access to a wide variety of large scale resources such as crates, planks, tyres and drain pipes giving them an opportunity to design, make, adapt, problem solve, modify and put structures to the test together alongside their peers
Year 1 -Food
This term year 1 children will describe fruits and vegetables and explain why they are a fruit or a vegetable, name a range of places that fruits and vegetables grow and prepare fruits and vegetables to make a smoothie. I am looking forward to tasting the healthy smoothie.
Brilliant Beginning - Gardening
Year 2 -Structures
The boys and girls are going to make a chair for Mr McGregor so he can comfortably guard his vegetable patch, and watch out for Peter Rabbit. There are lots of factors we need to consider; can we identify man-made and natural structures, identify stable and unstable structural shapes and when produce a chair that supports a soft toy, using the appropriate materials and construction techniques.
Brilliant Beginning - Construction Kit Afternoon
Year 2 had the opportunity to play with a range of construction kits to build a chair focusing on the different features.
Testing strength and stability.
The children have started to build Mr McGregor’s chair.
Year 3 -Structures
The children will draw and label a simple castle that includes the most common features and recognise that a castle is made up of multiple 3D shapes. The boys and girls are very sensible and trustworthy so they are ready to use tools to securely assemble geometric shapes with hot glue and score or cut along lines on the net of a 2D shape. I’m sure the children’s castle will be fit for a King. Photos coming soon….
Year 4 -Textiles
The children in Year 4 love reading so looking after their books is very important. The children plan to make a book case by considering a number of design elements. They need to identify the features, benefits and disadvantages of a range of fastening types and with lots of practice of a range stitch techniques, they will assemble their case using any stitch they are comfortable with.
Year 5 - Food
We are going to plant lots of fruit and vegetables in our school allotment this term so the children in year 5 will hopefully advise us which vegetables they would like for their healthy and nutritious bolognese sauce.
Year 6 - Electrical Systems
The children in Year 6 enjoy playing board games to develop their team and social skills so their latest design of a Steady Hand Game will be great to play at lunchtime. I am sure the younger children would like to play their electronic board game with a carefully designed circuit.
Autumn 2022
Celebration of Learning at home.....
Well done to Jessica (Year 6). After making a waistcoat in Year 5, she set herself a summer holiday challenge to make a waistcoat for her cuddly toy at home.
Autumn - Celebration of Learning
Mrs Danyadi, Callum (DT Ambassador) and myself have enjoyed meeting groups children from each year group and looking at their Autumn term DT projects. All the children have showed that they have retained “Sticky Knowledge” and developed a good range of skills. We can now see a clear progression in our DT throughout all key stages. We look forward to meeting more children in the coming term.
Year 1
MECHANISMS - Moving Story Books
Making a moving story book will teach pupils through D&T to draw the page backgrounds, make the moving parts and assemble it.
Starting to think about moving pictures.
Exploring different mechanisms - Levers
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Fantastic Finish -When Santa got stuck up the Chimney
. We hope you like our Christmas cards!
Year 2
TEXTILES - Puppets and Pouches
Children explore different ways of joining fabrics before creating their own hand puppets and pouches. Throughout they will work to develop their technical skills of cutting, gluing, stapling and pinning.
Brilliant Beginnings - Katie Morag Peg Puppet; using different joining techniques.
Puppets in progress.
The children have made a template and used it to cut their felt. They are now ready to join the two pieces together either using glue, staples or safety pins. I am looking forward to seeing the finished product.
We have had an amazing time making puppets. It was wonderful to see the children learning different joining techniques and using a hot glue gun! A huge achievement!
Year 2 have been learning to sew the running stitch so they can join two pieces of material together.
Fantastic Finish
We discussed the steps needed in order to make a Christmas tree decoration. We found out what design criteria are, looked at some examples and came up with some suggestions of our own. Once we knew what we needed to do, we got on with designing our own Christmas tree decoration. We thought about the materials we needed and the joining techniques we will use; staples, hot glue or running stitch.
Year 3
FOOD - Eating Seasonally
The children are learning about various fruits and vegetables, and when , where and why they grown in different seasons.
Brilliant Beginnings - Planting Seasonal Vegetables
Seasonal Crumble
Seasonal Tart 6
ASDA trip
Year 3 visited Clayton Green Asda store to look at the fresh fruit and vegetables. We carried a Scavenger Hunt to look at where the fruit and vegetables originated from, example are they grown in the UK or overseas. The children had an informative question and answer session with Jo (Community Link officer) and Ian (Fresh Produce Manager).
Tropical Fruit Skewers.
ASDA kindly donated the ingredients for our skewers and the children made their own tropical fruit skewers on our return to school and they were yummy.
Winter Soup
Tuesday 29th November - Homemade soup for sale
Fantastic Finish
Year 3 enjoyed harvesting the fresh herbs from the garden and making Winter Soup for the whole school. Thank you for your contributions we raised £12.90. We are planning to buy some seasonal vegetables for our school allotment with the money we raised so that we can grow and make more exciting food.
Year 4
Electrical Systems - Torches
The children will explore different electrical devices and made their own circuit. Before they design a torch they will look at the different features such as, housing, reflector, circuit and switch.
Year 5
Mechanical Systems - Pop up Books
The books will include captions, incorporating a range of mechanisms and decorative features including structures, levers, sliders, layers and spacers.
Year 6
Food - Come Dine with Me
Year 6 will prepare a three course meal.
The Halfway House Restaurant- Silver Service Training
Year 6 boys and girls enjoyed their morning at The Halfway House. They learned how to set a table for a three course meal, serve a meal and make a fan napkin. A big thank you to Richard and his team for making us feel very welcome.
Year 6 made a three course dinner of vegetable soup, pasta Napoletana and fruit salad.