Design and Technology
Design Technology at Fairfield
At Fairfield Community Primary School, it is our aim to engage, inspire and challenge pupils, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to use their individual creativity and imagination to design and make products that solve real and relevant problems within a variety of contexts, considering their own and others’ needs, wants and values. Exploration and research allows them to evaluate past and present design and technology and the ways that these have influenced modern society. This develops a greater understanding and knowledge of the world and their place in it allowing them to have a more critical approach to their own designs and creations. We wish to instil an appreciation for design and technology and enthuse children to express their individual creativity as ‘designers’, preparing children to be successful and well equipped to engage in tomorrows rapidly changing technologies.
To be an expert I need to ... think like a designer, talk like a designer and act like a designer.
Our Yearly Overview in Design Technology
Design and Technology Policy 2025
A Snapshot of Design Technonogy Spring 2025
Year 3 desinged, made and evaluated an information book with moving parts about Antarctica! Take a look...
A Snapshot of Design Technonogy Autumn 2024
Here is a taster of the amazing learning in Year 4 where they were learning about the mechanism of pneumatics to design and make a pneumatic rainforest moving toy for a child to play with.
Above we can see Year 5 develop measuring, marking, cutting, shaping and joining skills using junior hacksaws, G-clamps, bench hooks and wood to construct wooden frames for thdeir moon buggies.
Take a look below at the final pieces from Dolphins! Inspired by Eduardo San Juan, the children designed, made and evalutaed a controllable moon buggy toy. These are brilliant!
Year 6 are shown here mastering the focused task of safely drilling an off-centre CAM ready to then position it accurately in a housing.
