Committed to excellent standards of teaching in partnership with a variety of local and national
organisations contributing towards system-wide improvement.
Equip learners with a progressive toolkit of technical skills and a deep understanding of materials, enabling them to apply classroom learning to solve authentic, real-world challenges.
Instill a culture of safety and precision, where learners recognise that following rigorous technical instructions is essential for personal well-being and professional excellence.
Bridge the gap between education and industry by highlighting the vocational relevance of Design and Technology, ensuring learners value these competencies as essential life skills.
Empower learners to critically evaluate the social, ethical and environmental implications of design and nutrition, fostering an awareness of how technology shapes our world today and in the future.
Cultivate resilient, independent thinkers who possess the curiosity to interrogate the built environment and the confidence to ask the ‘why’ behind the ‘how’.
Implementation:
A clear progression of skills and knowledge is followed using the Kapow Primary scheme of work to ensure full coverage of the National Curriculum.
A clear progression in knowledge, skills and vocabulary is taught throughout the school to ensure coverage is met; the sequence builds on skills and progression is clear throughout. There are planned practical opportunities to develop skills.
Retrieval starters are used to activate previously taught knowledge in order to consolidate prior learning and make synoptic links between topics; it is also used as an assessment strategy.
Key vocabulary is shared and discussed at the start of each topic and then revisited in future lessons.
Teachers assess and adapt learning for all groups of learners, specifically providing support and challenge for learners with SEND and those who are Disadvantaged.
Learning Questions stimulate learners’ curiosity and independence.
The local learning area is fully utilised, providing extensive opportunities to use this space as an extra classroom to enhance teaching and learning in design and technology.
Cross-curricular links are made to wider parts of the curriculum when they naturally fit but this is never forced to ensure deep levels of design and technology knowledge and skills are always prioritised.
Impact:
Springfield designers develop skills with tools and have opportunities to put them in real life contexts.
Springfield designers can question ideas, draw on experience and reflect on knowledge.
Springfield designers make links across various curriculum areas and use their knowledge and skills to enhance work in other areas and solve real life problems independently.
Springfield designers talk positively about their learning in design and technology.
