Design Technology | Seaburn Dene Primary School

In our school the study of design technology is valued as a way for children to develop valuable life skills, preparing them for the future. Children are taught specific skills through a variety of projects each half term as set out below. Skills are re-visited throughout the year to ensure children’s knowledge is secure.

YEARS 1 & 2

	CYCLE 1 2017-18		ONGOING	CYCLE 2 2018-19
AUTUMN 1	AUSTRALIAN ADVENTURE - Year 1 Building Sydney Harbour Bridge - junk modelling. We will be learning how to construct simple structures as well as finding out how to strengthen them.
AUTUMN 2	Australian Style BBQ Year 2 Mechanisms Australian moving Handling and preparing food pictures. Designing a background Selecting and animal Making the animal move across the background.		We will take care of our own school gardens by planting and nurturing herbs, vegetables and fruits.
SPRING 1	Year 1 - Handling and preparing food Making our own sandwich Learning more about hygiene.	Year 2 Making Puppets Sewing Joining materials by sewing Using running stitch Making own pattern Finishing products		CRACKING IDEAS-history DT link-We will: Design, make and evaluate products Build structures using mechanisms Investigate our homes, the school and other places to see if we can come up with ideas and inventions that others may find useful.
SPRING 2	Year 1 Year 1 will be making a moving Easter card using a simple mechanism.	Year 2 Reinforce joining paper and moving part mechanisms. Designing and making Easter cards.
SUMMER 1	FROM FIELD TO FORK Geog link-We will find out how food comes from plants or animals, how it is farmed, caught or grown some of the changes that happen to food as it makes its journey from farm to fork. where food comes from We will research farming and fishing in the UK-geog link Food Throughout the topic we will prepare foods where we will need to wash, peel, cut and cook to make some hot and cold meals.			LIFT THE TEACHER First of all we will see if the whole class can come up with an idea to lift the teacher off the ground. We will explore levers to design a flying Frosties game! We will then design our own Medieval style catapult used in Castles. Our minds will turn to sliders to open, close or move an object. We will use this to create an animated story board that shows a scene from a story. Finally, we will explore buggies and axles, using construction kits to see how axles work. Our finale will be to build a buggy to transport an egg safely through an obstacle course.
SUMMER 1

YEARS 3 & 4

	CYCLE 1 2017-18		ONGOING	CYCLE 2 2018-19
	Year 3	Year 4
AUTUMN 1	Food Technology Baking Egyptian Bread Children will examine the origins of bread from around the world, taste various samples, before exploring the importance of bread to the Ancient Egyptians. Finally children will create follow and evaluate an Ancient Egyptian bread recipe, observing hygiene and safety rules.	Construction Building on skills learnt in previous years we will improve marking, measuring and cutting techniques to join cardboard together to create models of Roman buildings.	The skills of accurate measurement and cutting.
AUTUMN 2		Mechanisms We will explore levers, linkages and mechanisms and create a moving Christmas card
SPRING 1	Electronics During this topic we will: Combine buzzers with other materials to create an an intruder alarm, to try and capture the creature who appeared in our wooded area during transition week. They will create, test and evaluate different switches and alarm casings to create the most suitable alarm for the environment they are putting it into.	SEWING linked to our art and history work we will create a wall hanging using a variety of stitches.
SPRING 2		Miners Lamps Linked to our work on electricity in science and our history topic about coal mining we will design and make head torches for miners.
SUMMER 1		HOT DRINKS We will design a hot drink, linked to our work in geography on life in Istanbul.		MAKE A BANANA KEYBOARD As designers we will learn about control. We will experiment with the Makey Makey kit, applying our knowledge of conductors. We will make a banana keyboard. We will make a games controller from Pay Doh. Once we have explored lots of possibilities, we will be set a challenge to see who can come up with the most interesting or useful device.
SUMMER 2	Construction. Building Bridges: Children during transition will use a range of materials construction skills to create a bridge to the given specification.

YEARS 5 & 6

	CYCLE 1 2017-18		CYCLE 2 2018-19
AUTUMN 1	SHAKE THINGS UP As designers we will learn about structures and how to strengthen them. We will research how earthquake proof buildings are designed. Our challenge will be to build a shake platform to test our prototypes and modify them until they keep the occupants safe. We will explore ways to create buildings from blocks and shapes. We will look at architects throughout the ages have used arches. We will take the Sugar Cube Arch Challenge. We will learn how to stiffen materials and take the Paper Chair Challenge so that it takes our own weight
	YEAR 5	YEAR 6
	Make a Tin Foil Tower Make a house of cards	Make a spaghetti structure
	The Great Bridge Challenge
AUTUMN 2			CONFLICT-history topic DT Links-we will explore the use of catapults and examine the mechanisms involved. The Plastic Spoon Catapult Challenge.
SPRING 1
SPRING 2
SUMMER 1	BALLOON BLASTER To explore the use of axles and wheels in vehicles and balanced forces.
	YEAR 5	YEAR 6
	Design pulley mechanisms Gears to slow down movement. Simple machines to blast a balloon	See how cams turns rotary movement into linear Gears to slow down movement Simple machines to blast a balloon
SUMMER 2			SHAKE THINGS UP- a transition topic

YEAR 4 have painstakingly researched Roman shields, their design features and colours used. The children then created their own bespoke designs, including choosing the appropriate Roman symbols to convey their intentions.

After creating their designs, the children re-enacted a typical Roman formation and evaluated their final products.

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YEAR 6

As designers Year 6 will be developing their understanding and use of mechanical systems in their products using gears, pulleys and cams.

They will be incorporating switches, bulbs, buzzers and motors into their design projects and will apply their understanding of computing to programme, monitor and control their products.