Contact Details
- 01367 240655
- office@fvp.cambrianlt.org
Preston Place, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 7XE
Folly View
Primary School
Our vision is to cultivate a passion for Design and Technology in every child, inspiring them to engage in the design and creation of innovative products through a dynamic, hands-on learning experience that fuels their creativity and imagination.
“DT is when you make things.” (Year 1)
“I like doing DT because it’s my favourite job ‘cause I like designing things.” (Year 1)
“It’s when you’re learning about technology, and you design it.” (Year 2)
“We use our imagination in our head.” (Year 2)
“Wheels and axles was tricky, putting the piece of wood through a straw to make it go round.” (Year 2)
“It’s when you design, create and evaluate.” (Year 3)
“Sometimes we need making skills. Everyone loves making things.” (Year 3)
“I think the stitching went well as we practiced stitching. Like carpet stitch, blanket stitch.” (Year 3)
“I just enjoy designing and making it because I can do it my way." (Year 3)
Hello, I'm Mrs Ottaway, the DT leader at Folly View Primary School. I am dedicated to fostering a love for Design and Technology in our school, empowering our children to become independent learners who are resilient and eager to explore new ideas. Design and Technology is a dynamic, hands-on subject that ignites creativity and innovation, promoting critical thinking and problem-solving skills that students can apply both inside and outside the classroom. It enhances their understanding of the diverse and dynamic world around them, preparing them to navigate it with creativity and confidence.
Our DT policy is a guide that explains how we teach DT at Folly View. It outlines our goals for children's learning, the methods we use in DT lessons, and how we make DT engaging and accessible for everyone. The policy helps ensure that every child has a consistent, high-quality DT learning experience, with opportunities to explore, investigate, design, make, evaluate, and build their understanding of the world.
At Folly View Primary we nurture our children’s inner creativity and confidence. Through our learning muscles/school values, our Design & Technology curriculum encourages our children to become independent, creative problem-solvers. It also allows them to learn to think as individuals and as part of a team. The children develop their knowledge and understanding of how and why products are made in the way they are and how these products could be modified and improved. Design and Technology combines skills, knowledge, concepts and values to enable children to tackle real problems as well as being able to evaluate. We do not just focus on an end product; the whole process encourages children to make decisions for themselves, develop their ideas and to be empowered to evaluate their design. We make these experiences relevant and meaningful. Our children will learn to make something, for someone, for some purpose.
Our Design and Technology scheme ensures the progression of skills and covers all aspects of the Design and Technology curriculum - Mechanisms, structures, food, textiles, electrical systems. The progression of skills links to the Long Term Plan for DT. Each year group undertake three DT units per year, because of this, we have had to make some difficult decisions about which units to include and which to omit. We have carefully selected units to ensure gradual progression towards the National curriculum end of key stage targets and to cover all four of the strands: Design, make, evaluate and technical knowledge.
The long term plan outlines the sequence of DT topics and skills to be taught within each year group and aligns with the National Curriculum. It ensures children progressively build upon their design and technology knowledge and skills throughout their learning journey within DT.
Our children enjoy and value Design and Technology and know why they are doing things, not just how. Children will understand and appreciate the value of Design and Technology in the context of their personal wellbeing and the creative and cultural industries and their many career opportunities.
The children will develop:
-the skills, knowledge, concepts and values used by people to tackle the problems of living in our man-made world. Children can see the sense of solving real problems.
- the skills involved in the DT process including analysis, problem-solving, practical capability, and the ability to evaluate.
- imaginative thinking and will be able to talk about what they like and dislike when designing and making.
- an understanding of technological processes, products, and their manufacture, and their contribution to our society.
The children will be able to talk about how things work, and draw and model their ideas. They will select appropriate tools and techniques for making a product, whilst following safe procedures. They will have the opportunity to explore attitudes towards the man-made world and how we live and work within it. The children will foster enjoyment, satisfaction and purpose in designing and making.
Progress in Design and Technology is demonstrated through regularly reviewing and scrutinising children’s work, in accordance with our Design and Technology assessment policy to ensure that progression of skills is taking place. Namely through:
- Looking at pupils’ work, especially over time as they gain skills and knowledge - Observing how they perform in lessons
- Talking to them about what they know.
The Design and Technology curriculum will contribute to children’s personal development in creativity, independence, judgement and self-reflection. This would be seen in them being able to talk confidently about their work, and sharing their work with others. Progress will be shown through outcomes and through the important record of the process leading to them.
Preston Place, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 7XE