Design & Technology

The Intent for Design and Technology:

At Devonshire Junior Academy, we encourage children to use their 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.  We aim to raise the aspirations of our children and realise that they are from a variety of backgrounds, but we believe that this should not hinder our children, but enhance their experiences.  As a school, we aim to, wherever possible, link D&T closely with other disciplines such as mathematics, science, computing, engineering and art.  This will take place through challenge packs that mainly take place during our creative curriculum learning. In addition, our children are given the opportunities to reflect upon and evaluate past and present design technology (locally and globally), its uses and its effectiveness and they (our pupils) are encouraged to become innovators and risk takers. (national Curriculum, 2014)