Design & Technology

Vision

Design and technology is an inspiring, rigorous and practical subject. Using creativity and imagination, pupils will design and make products that solve real and relevant problems within a variety of contexts, considering their own and others’ needs and wants. They acquire a broad range of subject knowledge and draw on disciplines such as mathematics, science, engineering, computing and art. Pupils learn how to take risks, becoming resourceful, enterprising and innovative. Through the evaluation of past and present design and technology, they develop a critical understanding of its impact on daily life and the wider world. High-quality design and technology education makes an essential contribution to the creativity, culture, wealth and well-being of the local and global community.

Aims

At Sedgefield Hardwick our Computing curriculum aims to ensure that all pupils:

• can understand and apply the principles and concepts of computer science including abstraction, logic, algorithms and data representation
• can analyse problems in computational terms, having repeated practical experience of writing computer programmes
• can evaluate and apply information technology analytically
• are responsible, competent, confident and creative users of information and communication technology.

Principles

Learning across the curriculum follows our Instil, Inspire, Innovate philosophy which has been derived from the theory of learning by Oliver Wendell-Holmes

There are intellects, one-storey intellects, two-storey and three-storey with intellects with skylights…