

Pinfold Street Primary School
Learning is the key to success

Design and Technology
Design and technology is taught in each year group following the design, make, evaluate process.
Food – preparing fruit and vegetables, healthy and varied diet, celebrating seasonality and culture.
Textiles & Materials – templates and joining techniques, 2D shape to 3D product and combining different fabric shapes.
Mechanics – sliders and levers, wheels and axels, levers, linkages, pulleys/gears, electrical switches and circuits.
Construction - freestanding structures, shell structures (including computer-aided design) and frame structures.
Food Technology Room
We have a room created with equipment and resources to enable full access to the curriculum.
Take-home Projects
Our DT curriculum is enhanced through topics linking to history and geography. Each term, pupils are given a project title for which they can create something at home, promoting family time and creativity. Projects vary from PowerPoint presentations, information texts both handwritten and typed, creative based, eg making a Viking longboat/settlement.
Bold = National curriculum breadth
Other = school breadth
