Design and Technology
Meet the team
Miss McCall
Mrs Woods
We’ve always been fascinated by how things work and love the challenge of designing and making, whether that’s DIY at home, baking a new recipe, or creating alongside the children in school. Design and Technology allows children to think like inventors — testing ideas, solving real problems, and learning practical skills they’ll use for life. We particularly enjoy the way cooking and construction projects help children see their creativity take shape, from an initial sketch or recipe to a finished product they can be proud of.
Vision
At White Court, Design and Technology inspires curiosity, creativity, and innovation, while reflecting our values of responsibility, resilience, courage, and compassion. Following the National Curriculum, pupils learn to design, make, and evaluate purposeful, functional products that solve real-world problems. Through the Chris Quigley “Think it, make it, break it, repeat it” cycle, children develop the skills to plan, create, test, and refine their ideas with increasing independence and precision.
Our curriculum provides rich opportunities to explore structures, mechanisms, electrical systems, textiles, and food and nutrition in meaningful contexts. Every year group takes part in cooking and nutrition projects, helping pupils to understand where food comes from and how to prepare healthy, balanced meals safely. In Key Stage 2, pupils also apply their understanding of computing to design and make products with control systems, linking technology with creativity.
We aim to nurture confident, imaginative, and reflective young designers who take responsibility for their ideas, show resilience in problem-solving, demonstrate courage in experimentation, and collaborate with compassion. Design and Technology at White Court empowers pupils to see themselves as innovators — capable of shaping and improving the world around them.
Our Design and technology curriculum
We are teaching…
At White Court School, we are teaching Design and Technology to inspire curiosity, creativity, and innovation. Our intent is to provide a high-quality education that equips pupils with the knowledge, skills, and understanding they need to become inventive thinkers, problem solvers, and confident users of technology. Through a curriculum that reflects our values of responsibility, resilience, courage, and compassion, children learn to design with purpose, make with skill, and evaluate with reflection.
We teach Design and Technology by…
We follow the Chris Quigley scheme of work, using the “Think it, make it, break it, repeat it” design-make-evaluate cycle to ensure clear progression of skills and knowledge. Lessons are practical, creative, and connected to real-world contexts, allowing children to design and make purposeful products that meet specific needs. We teach across the key strands of the National Curriculum — structures, mechanisms, textiles, electrical systems, and food and nutrition — with cooking and nutrition taught in every year group.
Design and Technology is often taught through meaningful links with other subjects such as science, mathematics, and computing. Pupils learn how mechanisms, materials, and systems work, apply mathematical understanding to measure and scale accurately, and use digital technology to control and enhance their designs. Safety is prioritised, with pupils taught to use tools, equipment, and materials responsibly and confidently.
The children learn…
Children learn to think critically, solve problems creatively, and take pride in making things that have a real purpose. They learn to plan and test ideas, adapt designs through feedback, and build resilience when things don’t work the first time. Through food and nutrition, pupils gain an understanding of where food comes from and how to prepare healthy, balanced meals.
By the time they leave White Court, our pupils are imaginative, resourceful, and reflective young designers who can apply their skills across many contexts. They understand how design shapes the world around them and are equipped with the confidence and creativity to become the innovators and problem-solvers of the future.
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