Design & Technology
Curriculum intent
Using creativity and imagination, students are empowered to design and make products that solve real and relevant problems within a variety of contexts. Whilst learning with compassionate care students consider their own and others’ needs, wants and values. Students are courageous in their learning whilst exploring how to take design risks, becoming resourceful, innovative, enterprising and capable citizens.
Learning journey at KS3
You can download a copy of this curriculum overview using the link below:
CCSA Design Technology Learning Journey Key Stage 3
Year 7
The Year 7 Technology curriculum. Through a variety of creative and practical activities, pupils should be taught the knowledge, understanding and skills needed to engage in an iterative process of designing and making in a variety of subject areas to include Food and nutrition, Textiles and graphics
Students will be encouraged to work in a range of domestic and local contexts, and industrial contexts.
What will students study in Year 7
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How is your child assessed?
Students are assessed through classwork, formative and summative assessments, and their practical outcomes. Assessment will be taken from the following areas covered
Design -use research and exploration, such as the study of different cultures, to identify and understand user needs - identify and solve their own design problems and understand how to reformulate problems given to them - develop specifications to inform the design of innovative, functional, appealing products that respond to needs in a variety of situations - use a variety of approaches to generate creative ideas and avoid stereotypical responses - develop and communicate design ideas using annotated sketches, detailed plans, 3-D and mathematical modelling, oral and digital presentations and computer-based tools.
Make - select from and use specialist tools, techniques, processes, equipment and machinery precisely, including computer-aided manufacture - select from and use a wider, more complex range of materials, components and ingredients, taking into account their properties.
Evaluate - analyse the work of past and present professionals and others to develop and broaden their understanding - investigate new and emerging technologies - test, evaluate and refine their ideas and products against a specification, taking into account the views of intended users and other interested groups - understand developments in design and technology, its impact on individuals, society and the environment, and the responsibilities of designers, engineers and technologists Technical knowledge - understand and use the properties of materials and the performance of structural elements to achieve functioning solutions.
Pushing for Progress
Reflect on their work regularly, setting personal improvement goals.
Encourage reading around the subject.
How might you help at home?
Encourage regular reading.
Discuss what your child is studying. Get them to explain what they have been doing during class.
Support with homework by discussing ideas, proofreading work.
Enhance your child’s cultural awareness by attending exploring museums and galleries such as the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery or the Ikon gallery
Access the following websites
www.technologystudent.com
Homework
Engage with the homework that is set by the teacher
Revise for assessments
