At The Milford Academy, we believe that Design and Technology is a dynamic and creative subject that offers students the opportunity to develop essential problem-solving skills and foster a creative mindset. This subject not only enhances practical life skills but also allows children to integrate and apply knowledge from various cross-curricular subjects, including art, computing, science, and mathematics. Through DT, students deepen their understanding of technology, equipping them with valuable, lifelong skills that will serve them beyond the classroom.

The Design and Technology curriculum is creative, coherent and progressive. We aim to deepen children’s knowledge and understanding of key areas that are linked with both the National Curriculum and relevant to our children’s lives. We aim to inspire the designers of the future! The Design and Technology journey starts with our youngest children, who begin to develop key design skills as part of their early experience in school. They practice and develop skills, such as cutting, joining, fastening, selecting materials, testing properties and exploring stable structures. At the Milford Academy, we aim to develop skills alongside creativity. Pupils explore, make choices and create structures and simple products based on their own ideas and imagination.

The Milford Academy has also recently participated in a Healthy Lifestyles Project (from 2019 to 2024) looking at the impact of Cooking and Nutrition lessons with Suzanne Gomersall Senior Lecturer at N.T.U. As a school, we have continued to implement our learning from taking part in this project throughout our Design and Technology curriculum.

Please have a look at the documents below that outline, in detail, the Design and Technology curriculum our pupils experience.

Rosie Freeman

D&T Lead