Design Technology
at Linthwaite Clough
Design Technology is where imagination meets innovation – it's the subject that transforms brilliant ideas into real, working creations that solve genuine problems.
At Linthwaite Clough, your child will master practical skills across six exciting areas: from building sturdy structures and clever mechanisms to cooking nutritious meals, creating textiles, wiring electrical systems, and exploring digital design. Through hands-on making, thoughtful design and careful evaluation, children develop the technical knowledge and creative problem-solving abilities that make them true inventors and engineers. We're passionate about giving every child the chance to discover their inner maker, building skills that connect beautifully with science, maths and art whilst preparing them for a future where creativity and technical expertise go hand in hand.
Read about how our design technology curriculum is designed
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In Design Technology at Linthwaite Clough, we intend to offer a combination of skills across different disciplines. Children will learn skills across structures, mechanisms, cooking and nutrition, textiles, electrical systems and the digital world.
Our curriculum develops a range of practical skills across these six areas in a way that is built sequentially. Each of these areas is split into ‘design, make, evaluate and technical knowledge’. We also expect the children to acquire knowledge about how these skills can be applied in the wider world and for them to know where DT is connected to other subjects when appropriate.
We offer a curriculum in DT that meets the needs of each pupil and has high expectations for every child. We are acutely aware that DT can allow children to develop skills that are distinct from other areas of the curriculum and encourage excellence and the opportunities for children to flourish.
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We use the Early Years Statutory Framework and the National Curriculum as a basis for our DT curriculum. Whilst not a discreet subject in the Early Years Framework, we know that DT skills help children meet a selection of children’s Early Years Goals such as fine motor skills and creating with materials.
To meet the statutory curriculum, we use the Kapow scheme for DT. In Years 1-6, this is delivered over a two-year cycle three times a year. We use a variety of resources and equipment to help deliver the scheme ranging from woodwork tools to digital aids for Computer Aided Design.
As DT has many links to other subjects, we have designed our curriculum to link to these subjects where possible. For example, electrical systems is introduced into Year 3/4 as they are learning electricity in their science lessons. We aim to build on previous skills by revisiting tools, vocabulary and knowledge from previous units in each new unit the children take on.
Our DT is recorded through photographic evidence for the ‘make’ stage and stored digitally. The children’s design and evaluate stage can be recorded on paper and are kept in files in each class.
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As a result of our DT curriculum, we expect to see children with a range of technical skills, vocabulary and knowledge across the six key areas. We are committed to ensuring children receive a variety of opportunities to make products that are purposeful and are routed in technical knowledge. Monitoring of the subject takes place regularly throughout the year to ensure the children are receiving this.