Our design and technology curriculum aims to help pupils use their creativity and imagination to design and make products that solve problems within a variety of contexts. Pupils will learn how to design products that consider their own and others’ needs, wants and values.
Pupils will see how design and technology draws on disciplines such as mathematics, science, engineering, computing and art.
Our curriculum will help pupils evaluate past and present design and technology and develop a critical understanding of its impact on daily life and the wider world.
The King’s Leadership Academy Liverpool design and technology curriculum has been developed to ensure that all pupils:
develop the creative, technical and practical expertise needed to perform everyday tasks confidently and to participate successfully in an increasingly technological world
build and apply a repertoire of knowledge, understanding and skills in order to design and make high-quality prototypes and products for a wide range of users
critique, evaluate and test their ideas and products and the work of others
understand and apply the principles of nutrition and learn how to cook.
In order to check of how well our pupils are learning the curriculum, teachers use a full range of assessment techniques. This includes diagnostic questions to reveal your child’s preconceptions and common misunderstandings in design and technology questioning and summative assessments twice per year.