Westbury Leigh Design & Technology
Design and Technology enables children to have a range of opportunities to develop problem solving skills through, designing, making and evaluating.
Pupil use creative thinking and their imagination to design and make products that draw on disciplines such as mathematics, science, computing and art.
Design and Technology engages the children in a broad range of designing and making activities which involve a variety of methods of communication; speaking, designing, drawing, assembling, making, writing and using computer technology. Projects are taught in blocks following the Kapow scheme of work which allows for more effective learning in which teachers can focus on teaching and developing DT skills, allowing children to develop their ideas and techniques. .
The curriculum is designed to enable progression in Design and Technology processes, including specific aspects of designing and evaluating. It also ensures that children develop their knowledge and skills systematically; choosing and using an increasing range of tools and techniques to suit a range of different purposes and developing their knowledge and understanding of mechanisms and structures to enable the incorporation of mechanical and electronic systems into their products.
RRS Article 28 You have the right to a good quality education. You should be encouraged to go to school to the highest level you can.
