“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” — Steve Jobs
“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” — Pablo Picasso
“It’s through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good.” — Paula Scher, Designer and Partner at Pentagram
Design Technology Aims
- Develop the creative, technical and practical skills needed to participate successfully in an increasingly technological world
- Build and apply knowledge, understanding and skills in order to design a wide range of crafts and products
- Use a wide range of materials and tools to achieve goals
- Test and improve their ideas and products and the work of others
- Understand the principles of nutrition and learn how to prepare food.
Design Technology at Howletch Lane
We seek to inspire the creativity and imagination of our pupils, and teach them to design and build a broad range of crafts and products that have a real-world function. Pupils will use their skills in mathematics, science, engineering, computing and art to evaluate past and present design and technology, learn how to take design risks and work together to achieve goals. Above all, pupils and Howletch lane are encouraged and taught to become innovative and creative individuals with an ability to solve the design and technology problems.
In this section of the website, you will find information about our approach to teaching Design & Technology at Howletch Lane Primary School.
Curriculum Examples
We made moving pictures in the Arctic. We used levers to make the animals move in their environments.
We like to explore food. We made some marmalade sandwiches for Paddington bear. We talked about using tools safely and food hygiene.
We created some houses in the local community. We used a variety of materials and made opening doors and windows so that the families had nice homes. We talked about our designs and what was good and bad in the houses.
