Our Approach
At Monkshouse Primary Academy, we aim to inspire pupils to become curious, creative and innovative thinkers with a broad understanding of how products are designed and made: planning, creating and evaluating as designers and engineers do. Teaching focuses on helping pupils to develop the confidence to identify problems, generate ideas, plan and create products and evaluate their outcomes.We aim to raise pupils’ awareness of how design and technology shape the way they live, work and interact with the world. It encourages pupils to become resourceful, enterprising individuals who have the skills to contribute to and improve the world around them.
The Kapow scheme supports teachers in developing their subject knowledge and skills, enabling the delivery of engaging, well-informed lessons with confidence. The curriculum is designed to be both accessible and ambitious, ensuring all learners’ full participation and potential achievement.
Vision in Action
Kapow Primary’s Design and technology curriculum is structured around four strands that run through every unit:
Learning how to generate, develop and communicate ideas that respond to real problems and user needs.
Applying practical skills to select tools, materials and techniques to construct high-quality, functional products.
Reflecting critically on the pupils’ own work and the work of others, using feedback and criteria to improve outcomes.
Building an understanding of how products work, including the properties of materials, mechanisms, electrical systems and nutrition.
These strands ensure a balanced coverage of the substantive, disciplinary and procedural knowledge pupils need to progress in Design and technology.
They support the development of creativity, problem-solving and technical understanding, preparing pupils to design purposeful, functional products with increasing independence and confidence.