Design Technology
At Eden Park, Design and Technology isn’t just a subject—it’s a chance for your child to imagine, create, and thrive.
ABOUT THIS CURRICULUM
At Eden Park, our Design and Technology curriculum sparks creativity and innovation, offering every child the opportunity to think like a designer and bring their ideas to life. With a clear purpose and exciting, hands-on outcomes, our approach ensures that children develop essential skills for a rapidly changing world.
Our curriculum follows an annual cycle focusing on three key areas: mechanisms and mechanical structures, food and nutrition, and textiles. These areas build progressively year by year, nurturing your child's ability to design, make, evaluate, and master technical skills.
We embrace our local community to enrich learning—taking inspiration from the vibrant Brixham Fish Market and the beautiful Occombe Farm in Paignton. Purposeful links with other subjects, such as mathematics, science, art, and computing, ensure your child develops a broad, well-rounded understanding that’s both practical and inspiring.
EYFS
In Early Years, children would encounter Design Technology through ‘Expressive Art and Design’. Here children would have had plenty of opportunities to explore different materials and mediums through their continuous provision activities. Joining and assembling: They will use cold glue guns and tape to join and assemble materials with a purpose in mind when joining materials. Children can fold paper and card to create the desired effect e.g. paper plane. Construction: Children create complex structures becoming more imaginative in their block play and begin to create elaborate and complex designs, using their understanding of pattern, shape and balance. Children will start to use blocks to represent things that they know, that in turn enhance their play, for example a car or an animal, house or train station. Daily snack time provides a perfect opportunity to consider healthy food choices and further opportunities to learn about food and nutrition are offered throughout the year. Continuous provision provides plenty of opportunities to practise and explore joining, making, using tools and creating using different materials and evaluation is always encouraged. These foundations are built upon as children journey through Year 1 and KS1.
