At Flockton CE First School, we are currently developing our Design & Technology curriculum.  We inspire and teach children to use a range of tools, and design ideas through both classroom practise and learning in the outdoors.  Design & Technology is taught through the wider curriculum content or through stand alone units of work.  We provide our pupils wider curriculum enrichment through access to school trips and visits. 

Whole School Long Term Plan

Progression Document

Intent, Implementation & Impact statement

Our spiritual journey in Design & Technology

Enrichment in Design & Technology 

To support their learning in Design & Technology and History the children in Elder Class visited Greenman Learning for a day of exploring thier Cave Man Past.  The children had a great time learning and using homemade tools, building campfires and cooking food. 

 Sycamore Class Designing Chocolate Bars

What a fun project this was.  The children visited York 'Chocolate Story' to investigate how chocolate is made before designing and making their own chocolate bar. We researched filling, tasted different types of chocolate and designed our own wrappers. The children thought about thier target audience and how to make thier chocolate bars stand out in a shop. 

Elder Class Parents and pupil workshop

Our Elder class pupils and their parents enjoyed building structures for the National Coal Mining Museum Festival of Light Parade.  The children in Elder Class support this annual event by creating large scale structures.  The NCM run the workshops and take the structures away to be part of the Festival.  It was a fabulous opportunity to enrich our D&T curriculum and extend this workshop to parents.   This year the lanterns were pyramid structures with messages from the pupils to make the world a better place.  This year marks to anniversary of the miners strike.  The children will be able to take part in this community event with their parents. 

Apple Class - Textiles - Making Puppets

Apple Class were learning about the 3 little pigs.  They had been writing stories in English and then made puppets to re-tell the story with.  They children designed and then created thier pigs using felt and practised joining skills.  We are so proud of thier work - they look fantastic. 

Sycamore Class Mechanisms

Sycamore class explored different types of linkages using card and split pins, before designing and making a moving monster. We absolutely loved this unit. 

Practising knives skills in Reception and Year 1.

The children practise using a knive with playdough before moving on to chopping part boiled vegetables.  They then designed and tasted their own vegetable soup. 

Children in Year 2 & 3 made applique cushions 

The children practised using a running stitch to add designs to their cushions.  They learnt how we can use pins to hold fabrics in place.  A seam was sewn around the edge of the two fabric peices before the children used toy filling to stuff their cushions.