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Junior Design and Technology
The purpose of Design Technology at Bedford Modern Junior School is to enable pupils to be inventive in designing practical solutions to problems and so bring about change and improvements in existing situations. In Design Technology ideas are conceived, developed, modified and given shape through artefacts, through which original ideas can be evaluated. For our Junior DT Resources click on this link.
Year Three and Four
The pupils will develop and reinforce skills and concepts needed for
- Study of materials such as paper, thick card and fabric.
- Cutting and Joining techniques.
- Projects, based on the National Curriculum Key Stage Two programme.
- Skills involving a small range of hand tools, increasing in range in Year Four.
- Design planning, drawing and recording on external resources.
The projects undertaken are linked with topics studied in other areas of the curriculum.
Year Five and Six
The pupils will continue to develop and reinforce skills and concepts introduced lower down the School and will be introduced to new techniques and material. The work covered includes:
- Materials such as card, paper, wood and plastics and exploring their properties.
- Developing skills involving hand tools and a number of power tools under supervision.
- Addition of time frame and 3 -dimensional recording to project planning.
Items that pupils make: Picture Frames; Trinket Holders; Vehicles; Shoe Box Bedroom; Adventure Playground; Gear models and Clocks.
