KS 3

Aims and purposes of Design and Technology Key Stage 3

At key stage 3 design and technology offers opportunities for pupils to:

• develop their designing and making skills;

• develop knowledge and understanding of materials and components; systems and control; and structures;

• develop their capability, through combining their designing and making skills with knowledge and understanding to design and make products;

• nurture creativity and innovation through designing and making; explore values about and attitudes to the made world and how we live, work and interact within it;

• develop a critical understanding of technological processes, products and their manufacture, and how they contribute to our society;

• prepare for making a contribution to life and work in a technological society.

• relate and apply knowledge and understanding from across the curriculum.