Design Technology
Intent
Design and Technology provides all pupils with the opportunity to develop skills, knowledge and understanding by:
- Designing their own products
- Making their products come to life
- Evaluating their functional product
From doing this, the pupils at Dukesgate Academy will gain:
- Practical life skills
- Relevant, progressive knowledge of their own designs
- Appreciate the work of a range of craftspeople in the world in which we live in
- Encourage their creativity and innovation through design
Our curriculum is design to embed core disciplinary knowledge, and the ability to approach challenging, design questions
- Marking out and cutting skills
- Fixing and joining skills
- Mechanical and control skills
- Finishing skills, including food hygiene
- Related language skills