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“Design and technology is about making things that people want and that work well.
Creating these things is hugely exciting: it is an inventive, fun activity.”

James Dyson

Design and technology prepares pupils to participate in tomorrow's rapidly changing technologies. They learn to think and intervene creatively to improve the quality of life. The subject encourages pupils to become independent workers and be creative problem solvers, both as individuals and members of a team. They must look for opportunities and respond to them by developing a range of ideas and making products and systems. They combine practical skills with an understanding of artistic elements of design, human needs and wants, social and environmental issues, along with function and industrial practices. As they do so, they reflect on and evaluate past and present design and technology, its uses and effects. Through design and technology, all pupils can become selective and informed consumers, and become our innovators of the future.

Through the delivery of this process the Design and Technology Department will encourage students to realise their full potential and therefore be able to meet the challenges of the future with confidence and enthusiasm. In simple terms, design technology helps us develop people who are able to survive in the adult world where things need fixing, problems need solving, meals need to be made and money needs to be earned. Students are taught to become doers as well as thinkers!

As a Design and Technology Department we are striving to give our students a balanced Design and Technology curriculum.

Students should:

• Identify and state clearly needs and opportunities for design and technology through investigations in a variety of contexts.
• Generate a design specification; explore ideas to produce a design solution, developing it into realistic, appropriate solutions.
• Make products preparing and working to their own plans and identifying, managing and using appropriate resources.
• Develop, communicate, act upon and evaluate the processes, products and results of their own design and technological activities, as well as those of others.

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