Design & Technology

Design & Technology
at Fazakerley Primary School

The Design and Technology Leader is Miss R Barber

"The Design and Technology long term plan is supported with 18 separate medium term plans which outline the sequence of lessons in the unit, identify key vocabulary, highlight prior learning pertinent to the unit, as well as identifying the key knowledge and skills within the unit."

Working Walls

Design Technology Subject Specific Pedagogies.

In addition to our generic pedagogies, which are:

  •  Flexible groupings

  •  Revisiting prior learning from lessons

  •  Retrieval of prior knowledge in different contexts

  •  Visualisers for modelling

  •  I do, we do,you do

  •  Chunking lesson

  •  Dual coding 

  •  Strategies for remembering

  •  Sequential graphics

  •  Working walls (consistent subject specific design)

  •  Explicit teaching of vocabulary. (E.g. Use of visualiser / demonstrate methods and techniques).

 

We also have the following subject specific pedagogies for D and T:

  •  Each unit starts with a design brief (linked to real life problems)

  • 3 Ss (Something for someone for some purpose)

  • IEAs – (investigative and evaluative activities) hands on approach to learning

  • Opportunities for the children to ask questions, discover and investigate

  • Every lesson will be explicitly led by the class teacher

  • Evaluating throughout to identify issues and have the opportunity to fix issues

  • Focused tasks to build on skill and knowledge

  • SEND adaptations

  • Cross curricular links help for the chn to see the relevance

  • CAD to support learning

Design

  • Design criteria (WAGOLL)

  • Discovery teaching rather than through direct instructions

Make

  • Step by step process

  • Test

  • Evaluate

  • Formative assessment approaches are applied at all times in each lesson.

  • Regular representation of the subject within ‘Low Stakes Friday Curriculum Quiz’ to reinforce knowledge, skills and understanding and aid cognitive load. Teachers guided by subject lead’s key questioning document.