Design Technology

At Cullingworth Village Primary School, Design and Technology (DT) is all about exploring ideas, solving problems, and bringing imagination to life. Our pupils learn to design, make and evaluate a range of products through hands-on projects that inspire curiosity and innovation.

Design and Technology is taught through four core areas: mechanisms, structures, cooking and nutrition, and textiles. In Key Stage 2, this is further developed to include computing and electrics. This broad range of categories enables children to explore a variety of materials and technologies while developing essential skills for the future.

Through these exciting projects, pupils build practical expertise, teamwork, confidence and self-reflection, understanding the designed world and seeing themselves as inventors, problem-solvers and creative thinkers.

Cooking is an important part of our curriculum. Children take part in a range of cooking experiences, from making soups to creating hummus, flatbreads and more, developing vital life skills and an understanding of nutrition and healthy eating.

Our progressive curriculum ensures that skills build year by year, linking closely with art, maths and science to create a rich, cross-curricular learning experience.

We are also proud to be beginning our Goldsmith Artsmark journey, a two-year cycle celebrating creativity and design across the whole school.

The national curriculum for Design and Technology aims to ensure that all pupils:

• develop the creative, technical and practical expertise needed to perform everyday tasks confidently and to participate successfully in an increasingly technological world
• build and apply a repertoire of knowledge, understanding and skills 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

At Cullingworth, we don’t just make things; we make thinkers, creators and innovators for life.