Subject: DT
A1
A2
Subject Overview 2014-2015
F.S.
Y1
Y2
Y3
Y4
Y5
Handprints
Paper Mache- (Dan
Reeder-Context:
Dinosaur eggs)
Manipulating
materials/changing
materials
Construction
materials
3-D models
Joining
techniques
Context Imaginary
Designer of Eiffel
Tower - Gustav
Eiffel
Textiles
Cape making
Design and evaluate
cape. Focus on
design, looking at
specifications, what
is needed to be a
good cape, what it’ll
do, etc.
Contexts:
superheros
Board games
Burial masks
Make a board game –
layout, presentation
and format.
Construction
Material
Modelling/
mechanisms
Moving models with
an electrical system
Alessandro Volto
Ingredients
Fair trade foods
What are the
benefits of fair
trade food?
Packaging
Food tasting
Clay
Context: DiwaliDiva lamps
Manipulating tools,
dexterity, fine
motor skills
Designing,
Making and use
of technical
knowledge
Construction
Material
3-D model
Metal worker
Focus on stiffening
and re-enforcing
products
Researching and
then designing
Context: Sheffield’s
history
Textiles
linked to history
Weaving patterns
Joining fabrics
Creating a piece of
clothing for a
bronze age
character
Ingredients
and packaging
Chocolate
Nigella Lawson
(creating own
recipes)
Papier mache
dinosaur eggs
3D Modelling
Plasticine fossils
Context Imaginary
Burial Masks –
collage for
surrounding head
dress and 3D
structure for face
mask.
Y6
Ingredients :
Context: Food and
Nutrition
Design, make and
evaluate a sandwich
and a fruit salad.
Focus on food
preparation and
hygiene.
Subject: DT
SP1
Junk Modelling
Context: 3D
Castles
Exploring shapes,
sizes, joining skills
Making and
Evaluation
Construction
Materials
3-D models :
looking at
mechanisms e.g.
levers
Rockets
Context - Space
(Rockets)
Construction
Materials
3D models
Models of St Paul’s
Cathedral landmarks
– lollipop sticks and
art straws. Joining
techniques.
Designer: Sir
Christopher Wren
Context: Great Fire
of London
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Ingredients
Greek food
Salad making
(Food)
Food Tasting: Greek
Food
Salad making
Concluding types of
flavour within a food
culture.
Why do you think
food from Ancient
Greek is based
around salad and
vegetables?
Diane Kochilas
Construction
materials
Model making :
Focus on reenforcing structures
Context: Making
dwellings
Hillforts
Mechanisms:
Construction
Materials
Woodwork
Model making Focus
on mechanisms
Context: Creating
exhibition for Viking
museum
Textiles
Context: Mobile
technology.
Children design,
make and evaluate
a case for an
electronic device.
Looking at
specifications and
designing for a
purpose
Skills – joining
techniques such as
cross stitch,
blanket stitching
and back stitch.
Subject: DT
SP2
SU1
SU2
Collage
Context: Animal
mask making
Colour and pattern
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Printing in
Sequences
repeating
patterns
Context Science, plants
and nature
Ingredients
Making pirate
biscuits
Cooking: Pirate
Biscuits
Design, make and
evaluate
Moving
parts/axels
Contexts: Junk
model
rockets/space
buggies
(doors, wings,
wheels etc?)
Experimentation
with joining
materials and
techniques
Designing and
Making:
Textiles,
focusing on
sewing when
making
Felt hand puppets
Construction
Materials and
Mechanisms Design,
make and evaluate
– vehicles (wheels
and axle)
Context: Vehicles
3D Models – sea
animals (varying
materials)
Waterproofing
Textiles
Flowers in a pot –
textiles/sewing
(design make and
evaluate – literacy
link to write
instructions)
Animal puppets
Bill Baird, Jim
Henson, and Julie
Taymor
Weaving
Context: Spider
webs etc
Artist- Ellen
Jackson
Fine motor skills,
following a
pattern, repeating
patterns, colour
Making and
ingredients to
make Dough
animals
Mini-beast homes
Food technology
food around the
world – where food
comes from, what it
tastes like (Global
citizenship link)
Context: Around the
world
Ingredients
Plants we eat: food
making
Eating: Food Making
Evaluating different
flavours, food
preparation and
cutting technique
Context - Story
based, princes
and princesses.
Context –
Homes/habitats
and environments
Ingredients
Food – salads
Linking with
computing
Ie: Annabel Karmel,
Jamie Oliver, Delia
Smith
Construction
materials
Modelling : Gears
and pulleys
Moving model –
water cycle
Textiles
Creating own
garments based on
Christian Dior’s
designs
Christian Dior
3d sculptures –
Contexts: Mayans
Mechanisms –
joining techniques
and moving parts.
Children use various
media – clay, card,
fabric, wood
Michaelango
Subject: DT
Subject Overview 2014-2015