At Red Rose Primary School we provide pupils with a Design & Technology curriculum that:
- Prepares pupils to participate in tomorrow’s rapidly changing technologies.
- Provides opportunities for all children to design and make quality products.
- Presents children with the opportunity to explore food and cooking techniques along with healthy eating and environmental issues within food production.
- Develops design and making skills, knowledge and understanding to the best of each child’s ability; using and selecting a range of tools, materials and components.
- Allows children to become creative, independent problem solvers as individuals and also members of a team.
- Enhances the use of computing in conjunction with the designing and making process.
- Develops an ability to criticise constructively and evaluate their own products and those of others.
- Helps children develop an understanding of the ways people in the past and present have used design to meet their needs. To reflect on and evaluate such techniques, its uses and effects.
- Prepares children for living in a multi-cultural society by teaching consideration for other cultures which will be both important and beneficial.