At Our Lady Queen of Martyrs, we believe that the teaching of design and technology helps pupils to use their creativity to design and create products that solve real-world and imaginative problems, taking risks throughout. Design and technology infuses a range of practical skills, such as engineering and art, to contribute ideas to wider society and culture.
This enables us to live within, love and learn about the feats of engineering and creativity in ours, and other, cultures
Design and Technology is a sacred subject:
- Design Technology incorporates innovative creativity and risk-taking leading to a high level of resourcefulness
- It enables learners to become channels of divine inspiration.
- Design Technology calls forth imagination, resourcefulness, and creativity whilst drawing on a wide variety of complementary disciplines.
- Design Technology challenges students to engage with issues of inclusion, stewardship, the dignity of the human person and ecology.
Design and Technology enables pupils to know the universal story they are a part of:
- Story Past – the use of design and technology skills in creating some of the wonders of the word through history
- Story Present – the use of design and technology through their everyday lives and how it impacts and changes cultures
- Story Future – how design and technology advances our understanding and approach to the world and how it can be used as a positive influence for change
| Below are some Examples of how our teaching of Music contributes to our whole school pupil characteristics | ||
| Pupil Characteristic | Key Word | History contributes to this by providing opportunities to… |
| The leaders of tomorrow | LEAD | Be a leading voice for design changes to the systems and features of their local community and wider world |
| Advocates | STAND | Use technology as a vehicle to change the lives of those most in need and require their support |
| Powerful Orators | SPEAK | Make use of effective design and technology to demonstrate their thoughts and add further power to their words on the issues that matter to them |
| Gospel activists | ACT | Share Gospel values in their local community via the use of innovative and productive products |
| Inquisitive learners | ASK | Generate and ask questions about great designs and designers of the past, learning how to apply those ideas to their plans today and in the future |
| Creative problem solvers | THINK | Include the use of technology an inspirations for themselves and others to solve everyday, and larger, problems |
| Inclusive team builders | SHARE | Work collaboratively with a broad range of people on original and inventive projects |
You can find out more about how we implement this intent statement by reviewing the documents below:
