At Cardinham School, we follow the Kapow Primary Design and Technology curriculum. The curriculum has been carefully adapted to suit our rolling programme, ensuring that children experience a broad, balanced and progressive range of learning opportunities throughout their time at school. Before delivering each unit, teachers thoughtfully consider the needs, interests and prior learning of the pupils in their class, enabling lessons to be adapted so that all children can succeed and make progress. Through engaging, hands-on projects, pupils are encouraged to become creative thinkers, confident problem-solvers and reflective learners who are willing to take risks and learn from their mistakes.
Using Kapow as the foundation of our curriculum ensures that children develop knowledge and skills progressively across the key areas of Design and Technology, including structures, mechanisms, textiles, cooking and nutrition, electrical systems and the digital world. Each unit follows the design process of designing, making and evaluating, helping pupils understand how ideas are developed into successful products. Kapow's spiral curriculum revisits key concepts over time with increasing complexity, allowing children to build on previous learning and deepen their understanding. Through this approach, our pupils develop the creativity, resilience and technical skills needed to become innovative and resourceful individuals in an ever-changing world