You can create anything if you can imagine it! We want children to know that if they can imagine it, they can make it. Because of this, we have chosen to use the scheme Projects on a Page which has been tailored  and adapted to our community’s needs. The curriculum is designed to inspire our children to research, plan, design, evaluate and build new and better products. We aim to build children’s skills as they progress through the school so that they can develop creative, practical and technical expertise in the subject. Children will develop skills in designing high quality prototypes, understand how to make them through a large variety of technical skills and learn to critique and evaluate their ideas and products effectively. 

By the end of KS1, all children will: 

• Will enjoy the process of designing and making through a variety of creative and practical activities 
• Create products for a wide variety of topic related contexts 
• Learn to explore and evaluate a wide variety of products while assessing their own ideas and products against a design criteria 
   
• By the end of KS2, all children will be able to: 
• Use research to develop their own specific design criteria 
• Generate and communicate their ideas 
• Use a wide range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks 
• Understand how design and evaluation has shaped the world 
• Evaluate their own ideas and consider improvements to others work. 

Teachers ensure there is progression in knowledge and skills by using our skills progression document and a success criteria for each project. There is a variety of contexts within our curriculum including mechanisms, structures, food, textiles and electrical systems which allow the children to experience designing, making and evaluating in a wide range of relevant experiences.  These contexts have been linked directly to topics to ensure richer learning experiences that embed learning in their long term memory.