Hermitage Primary School

Subject Leader; Mrs Berry

At Hermitage Primary school our long term vision for design and technology is for all children to:

• enjoy and appreciate the value of designing and making purposeful products – their own and existing ones
• become creative, critical problem solvers, who are willing to take risks, be reflective and try again - developing their resilience
• use their knowledge from a broad range of subjects in a meaningful way.

The National Curriculum for Design and Technology aims to ensure that all pupils:

• develop the creativity, technical and practical expertise needed to perform everyday tasks confidently and to participate successfully in an increasingly technical world
• build and apply a repertoire of knowledge, understanding and skills in order to design and make high-quality prototypes and products for a wide range of users
• critique, evaluate and test their ideas and products and the work of others
• understand and apply the principles of nutrition and learn how to cook.

Click here to view the National Curriculum for Design and Technology:

At Hermitage we have developed a bespoke Scheme of Work which is used across the whole school. This scheme ensures that, throughout their time at Hermitage, children participate in a range of D&T projects -which incorporate structures, electrical sytems, textiles, mechanisms and nutrition  - whilst learning and developing new skills. See below for our Curriculum Map for D&T.

This is what pupils have said about Design and Technology in our school:

‘It is fun; it’s fantastic!’ – Year 1 pupil

‘It’s really fun – we get to make things from our own ideas.’ – Year 2 pupil

‘It is great because I like doing all the drawing and labelling. I like how all the ideas come together and then we make it.’ – Year 3 pupil

‘It’s good finding out how things are built and how to make things stronger. We made bridges. – Year 4 pupil

‘It’s tricky and fiddly.’ – Year 4 pupil

‘I like how you plan it first, then we are taught techniques, then we try them out before making it.’ – Year 5 pupil

‘I like the building - using skills and figuring it out as you go along - as sometimes it doesn’t work.’ – Year 6 pupil