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At Epsom Primary and Nursery School, we believe that Design and Technology helps to prepare children for the developing world. Through an inclusive approach, it encourages children to become ambitious, creative problem-solvers, both as individuals and as part of a team and helps prepare for living in a modern world of rapidly changing and advancing technology.
As Epsom Primary and Nursery School, we aim to develop the knowledge and skills that children acquire from their experiences of designing, making and evaluating products that solve real and relevant problems within a variety of contexts including cooking and nutrition, whilst also gaining a broad range of subject knowledge taught progressively from EYFS through to Year 6. We take a nurturing, child led approach to teaching these skills allowing the children to experience first-hand problems and think critically and respectfully about how they can make purposeful changes fit for purpose as well as promoting children to become more divergent thinkers. It allows our children to draw upon other subject skills such as mathematics, science, engineering, computing and art. Alongside developing the children’s knowledge of people across a diverse community who have influenced the Design Technology world with their inventions to provide purpose to their learning.
