Welcome to Design and Technology
Subject Leader: Mrs Ford
Subject Governor: Bob Nix
Use, Purpose and Evaluation
All DT products that pupils make have to have a purpose and they have to test product throughout the design and making process to ensure it is’ fit for purpose’- this means pupils must constantly test their product, making changes when, where and if necessary.
E.g. Year 4 made Pop Up Story books – Purpose- to entertain EYFS children.
Famous Inventors
Alongside each year group doing 3 Units of DT per year they also study 3 famous inventors.
This enables pupils to see how inventions need to be ‘fit for the purpose’ and to see these inventions in everyday life.
Morris and Rose Michtom – The teddy bear
John Logie Baird – The television
Josephine Cochrane – The dishwasher
Margaret E. Knights – The paper bag
Charles Babbage – The computer
Karl Benz – The car
Samuel Morse – Morse code
Mary Anderson – Windshield wipers
Charles F. Brush – Wind turbines
Tim Berners Lee – The World Wide Web
Percy Shaw – Cat’s eyes
Andreas Flocken – The first “real” electric car
Martin Cooper – The mobile phone
Guglielmo Marconi – The radio
Karl Von Drais – The bicycle
Cornelius Van Drebbel – The submarine
Steve Jobs- the Apple iPhone
Mark Zuckerberg – Facebook
