Lower Key Stage 2
Designing
Year 3
Gathering information about wants and needs.
Describe the purpose of their products and the intended user.
Year 4
Developing their own design criteria and using them to inform their ideas.
Indicate design features that will appeal to intended users.
Making
Year 3
Select suitable tools and materials and explain in relation to techniques.
Order the main stages of making.
Assemble and join components with some accuracy. Use a range of finishing techniques from art and design.
Year 4
Explain choices of materials according to functional properties and aesthetic qualities.
Evaluating
Year 3
Identify strengths and areas for development in their products.
Use their design criteria to evaluate their completed products.
Explore: how products are designed, made, what materials and components are used, how well they work.
Year 4
Identify strengths and areas for development in their ideas and products.
Refer to design criteria as they design and make.
Explore: who/where/when designed a product, how well does it achieve its purpose, can it be recycled?
Technical Knowledge - Cooking and Nutrition
Year 3
To learn key skills such as weighing, sieving, rolling, shaping.
To learn about classes cultures through food and cooking.
To be experimental and try a range of new foods from around the world.
To follow more complicated recipes with a wider range of ingredients.
Year 4
To learn about traditional British dishes.
To use the bridge hold to cut harder foods using a serrated vegetable knife.
To explore different ingredients, making suggestions for recipes.
To know how to plan and shop for a meal with some support.
Technical Knowledge - Textiles
Year 3
Identify different forms of textiles e.g. felt, cotton, hessian, binca.
With support, thread smaller-eyed needles using finer thread.
Learn and begin to use a wider variety of stitches e.g. cross stitch and blanket stitch, with support.
Stitch directly onto fabric, following a pattern or design.
With support, cut and shape fabric, following a pattern or design.
With support, join two pieces of fabric together using taught stitching methods.
Gather and pad a range of fabrics and textiles.
Year 4
Show a developed awareness of and name a range of different fabrics and textiles.
Cut and shape fabric, following a pattern or design.
Explore simple weaving techniques to create a pattern, showing an understanding of the process.
Technical Knowledge - Construction
Year 3
To explore how to make structures stronger and more stable.
To discuss and experiment with strengthening and reinforcing materials.
To select from and accurately use a selection of tools and materials to make a bridge, following a unified design.
Year 4
To confidently explain why a certain material has been chosen for the project.
To understand properties of materials and which materials would be a good choice for the project.
To confidently use a wide a range of tools and equipment independently and to know which tools are needed for each element of construction.