Technology

 

Year 6 learning about engineering

Design &Technology

Food Technology

Aims and objectives

Technology prepares children to take part in the development of tomorrow’s rapidly changing world. Creative thinking encourages children to make positive changes to their quality of life. The subject encourages children to become autonomous and creative problem-solvers, both as individuals and as part of a team. It enables them to identify needs and opportunities and to respond by developing ideas and eventually making products and systems. Through the study of Design and Technology, they combine practical skills with an understanding of aesthetic, social and environmental issues, as well as functions and industrial practices. This allows them to reflect on and evaluate present and past design and technology, its uses and its impacts. Design and Technology helps all children to become discriminating and informed consumers and potential innovators.

 

The aims of Technology are:

Ø  to develop imaginative thinking in children and to enable them to talk about what they like and dislike when designing and making;

Ø  to enable children to talk about how things work, and to draw and model their ideas;

Ø  to encourage children to select appropriate tools and techniques for making a product, whilst following safe procedures;

Ø  to explore attitudes towards the made world and how we live and work within it;

Ø  to develop an understanding of technological processes, products, and their manufacture, and their contribution to our society;

Ø  to foster enjoyment, satisfaction and purpose in designing and making.

Ø  To evaluate the success of their design and to consider ways of improving it

Organisation

Technology is taught in all year groups on a carousel of Art, Design & Technology and Food Technology. Children are taught in groups of 20 for a double lesson a week for a term..

 

Topic overview

            Units of study give due coverage to all areas of the QCA document

Ø  Mechanisms Moving Toy (5)

Ø  Structures Sears Tower Project (6)

Ø  Resistant Materials Clock Project GAUDI 8, Boat Project 6, Fuse tester & Photo frame acrylic 7

Ø  Electronics  Fuse tester Project 7

Food Technology

Week	Year 5 Wed 4/5 Thurs 4/5	Year 6 Mon 1/2 Thurs 4/5	Year 7 Tues 2/3 Tues 4/5	Year 8 Wed 2/3 Fri 2/3
1	Theory	Theory	Theory	Theory
2	Demonstration (Dem) English Breakfast & make toast	Rock buns	Theory & small buns demo	Pineapple USD cake
3	Dem & make French Breakfast	Chequers biscuits	Small buns	Marble Pear pudding
4	Dem & make Continental Breakfast	Marble buns	Banana bread	Own design cakes
5	Dem & taste American pancakes Design Breakfast pot	Chocolate chip cookies	Fruit Crumble	Own design pudding
6	Make Breakfast pot	Carrot cakes	High fibre Crumble	Mushroom Risotto
Half term
7	Dem & make Blueberry muffins in 2’s	Butterfly buns	Pizza Wheels	Healthy Lasagne
8	Dem & make Pizza toast	Bread	Pizza	Vegetable curry
9	Rocky Road Squares	Cheese and courgette scones	Cheese and herb scones	Own design chicken curry
10	Syrup Oat crunchies	Puppets	Pasta bake	Pasta bolognaise
11	Iced shortbread	Puppets	Spaghetti  and Meatballs	Chilli con carne
12	Fruit Scones	Puppets	Written test	Written test

 

*Order of lesson’s may change at short notice eg trips, training or curriculum days.