Design Technology
Our Design and Technology curriculum aims to inspire students to think about the important and integral role which design and the creation of designed products play in our society. The curriculum is split into three different areas: ‘cook’, ‘sew’ and ‘build’. It is designed so that each year group will complete a unit of work in these three different areas once a year.
Each DT unit has been devised to be delivered in a five-hour block, once a term, which can be taught over a single day or two half days.
Each unit specifies the concepts and skills which our pupils at Stilton are expected to learn over the course of a unit. These concepts and skills progress gradually throughout the course of the six years of study. In ‘cook’ students learn to cook from recipes which gradually build basic culinary skills, culminating in year six with the creation of a mezze-style meal requiring the pupils to produce various small dishes. Whilst studying these practical skills they learn about concepts relating to food such as nutrition, seasonality, food production, transportation and food from different cultures.
