Design and Technology
Curriculum Intentions
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Key areas are used to judge student progress, and amongst other things students should be able to:
- Generate, develop, model and communicate ideas in a range of ways, using appropriate strategies
- Respond creatively to briefs, developing their own proposals and producing specifications for products
- Apply their knowledge and understanding of a range of materials, ingredients and technologies to design and make their products
- Use their understanding of others’ designing to inform their own
- Plan and organise activities and then shape, form, mix, assemble and finish materials, components or ingredients
- Evaluate which hand and machine tools, equipment and computer-aided design/manufacture (CAD/CAM) facilities are the most appropriate to use
- Solve technical problems
- Reflect critically when evaluating and modifying their ideas and proposals to improve products throughout their development and manufacture.
