Design Technology

 At Grestone Academy, we value Design & Technology as an important part of our children’s entitlement to a broad and balanced curriculum.

Design & Technology is taught through a variety of creative and practical activities, involving textiles, mechanisms, food and computing.

Our pupils are taught the knowledge, understanding, skills and vocabulary needed to engage in the ongoing iterative process of designing and making. These core skills are built upon year on year, as our children learn to develop and apply them in a range of different contexts.  

We engage our children through activities that involve investigating and evaluating existing products, where our pupils are encouraged to reflect on and evaluate present and past design and technology, its uses and its impacts), focused tasks in which children develop particular aspects of knowledge and skills and then designing and making in which the children design and make ‘something’ for ‘someone’ for ‘some purpose’.

We ensure that the teaching of Design & Technology at Grestone Academy supports the social development of our children, developing their independence, respect for their peers, persevering through problem-solving and working together. Design & Technology helps all our children to become astute and informed future consumers and potential innovators.