Statement of Intent Design and Technology

At Lady Seaward’s VA C of E Primary School, we value Design Technology as an important part of the children’s entitlement to a broad and balanced curriculum.  Design Technology provides the children with the opportunities to use creativity and imagination, to design and make products that solve real and relevant problems within a variety of contexts, considering their own and others’ needs, wants and values. Our children will aquire a broad range of subject knowledge and draw on disciplines such as mathematics, science, engineering, computing and art.Our children learn how to take risks, becoming resourceful, innovative, enterprising and capable citizens. Through the evaluation of past and present design and technology, they develop a critical understanding of its impact on daily life and the wider world. Children complete a process of evalauting made products, designing and making their own, culminating in evaluation of their own designs.

 Key aims linked to our intent 

Our vision for Art and Design is to enable our pupils to achieve the following aims: 

•  use a range of materials creatively to design and make products 

•  use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination 

•  develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space 

•  talk about the work of a range of artists, craft makers and designers, describing the differences and similarities between different practices and disciplines, and making links to their own work.    

• create sketch books to record their observations and use them to review and revisit ideas 

•  improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing, painting and sculpture with a range of materials [for example, pencil, charcoal, paint, clay] 

•  Learn about great artists, architects and designers in history as well as current examples of artists who are using varied art forms to convey important meaning and messages in their work.