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DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY

At Dulwich Hamlet Junior School, our Design & Technology curriculum inspires and instils creativity, curiosity, imagination and problem solving skills in all learners, providing them with a platform to develop the expertise needed to perform design tasks confidently, take risks and increase their critical understanding of design and technology’s worldwide cultural significance.

Here at the Hamlet we believe Design & Technology is a subject that offers wide opportunities for creativity and collaboration. We have a beautiful D.T Suite with a well resourced kitchen unit, as well as a large variety of materials for the children's units of work. Children are taught D.T through three projects a year; woodwork, sewing and cooking. Projects are taught in the D.T Suite, a space where the children are able to escape the classroom and excel in a setting beyond their usual learning environment. Our curriculum is designed so that children build on the taught skills each year and their work is recorded in a D.T exercise book, which carefully tracks the D.T process of designing, making and evaluating. 

In lessons, children are allowed time to design their products, thinking carefully about the intended users and encouraged to use technical vocabulary to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding. Following this, the children make their product and are given a choice of which materials to use. This element of choice promotes the problem solving and risk taking traits we encourage children at the Hamlet to develop.  The children evaluate their products against an established design criteria, with the written outcomes recorded in the D.T books. Finally children are assessed through a written outcome, where they evidence their understanding of the D.T process and knowledge of technical vocabulary, by writing about the week's sequence of lessons.  

Some of the projects include: Year 3 Smoothie Week, Year 4 Catapults, Year 5 Victorian Pull toys and Year 6 Anderson Shelters, with lots of outcomes displayed at our Annual Summer Art Exhibition.   ​

Earlier this year we were involved with Teen Tech, a non-profit charity and community interest company which aims to help young people understand the opportunities available in the contemporary STEM workplace. They held a workshop for our Year 5s, where the children got into groups to create a futuristic city, using recycled materials. The children designed and made their cityscape structures and the results were impressive with imaginative, eco-friendly ideas being produced. Here are some of this year’s examples. ​