Design and Technology Association

Designing an exceptional KS1&2 D&T curriculum - 2 evening sessions

Date and Time

Start Date: 5th June 2025

Time: 15:30 - 18:00

Member Price: £125.00

Your Price: £149.00

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Two evening sessions, online course (Zoom link will be provided)

This online course spread over two evenings, is designed for primary school teachers and subject leaders who want to develop high-quality design and technology (D&T) curriculum and lessons. Whether you’re new to D&T or seeking to enhance your current curriculum, this hands-on session will provide you with the tools and confidence to deliver engaging, impactful lessons.

The session will additionally highlight best practices, using acclaimed D&T planning resource 'Projects on a Page'.  There are 23 planners that cover Food and Nutrition, Textiles, Structures, Mechanisms, Electronics and Programming and Control. It is a flexible scheme of work for D&T that helps schools to deliver a breadth of excellent primary design and technology.

This course is ideal for:

  • Primary teachers looking to build confidence in teaching D&T.
  • Curriculum leaders seeking to develop a progressive and engaging D&T framework.
  • Educators interested in using POAP to align lessons with the D&T National Curriculum.

Course objectives:

  • Understand how Projects on a Page can be used to tailor D&T at your primary school and to best meet the needs of your pupils.
  • Understand how to contextualise learning and develop rich opportunities for pupils, avoiding a ‘making by numbers’ approach of D&T teaching
  • Develop the skills to plan a D&T curriculum using POAP, including adding context and designing cohesive sequences of lessons.
  • Explore ways to make lessons more engaging by sharing ideas and ensuring coverage of the 6 D&T Principles.
  • Break down the contents of one or more POAP units

By participating in this course, you will learn how to:

  • Use Projects on a Page as a planning tool.
  • Use Projects on a Page to develop a sequence of lessons.
  • Learn how POAP can address the key design skills of design, make, and evaluate.
  • Ensure content coverage and progression through the key stages.
  • Contextualise learning.
  • Ensure the D&T ‘key content’ is being delivered.
  • Plan engaging lessons with a variety of learning opportunities.
  • Create practical outcomes using Projects on a Page templates.
  • Create a sequence of lessons following the templates.

This is an online course. In order to achieve the greatest outcome, maximise engagement with our trainer and gain the desired skills from this course, we require you to have your camera switched on throughout the entire session. We encourage discussion and are more than happy to answer questions during the session. Please note, the trainer may kindly request delegates mute themselves for short periods of times throughout the training session.

Meet your Trainer

Paul Woodward – Curriculum Consultant

Paul has been teaching D&T for almost 30 years with most of those years as a Head of Creative Arts Faculties or as Head of D&T. Following a degree in 3D design, Paul initially trained for the Post 16 sector, so he has extensive experience of teaching A Level D&T, but he has taught the subject from KS2 onwards in a wide variety of schools ranging from Pupil Referral Units to Prestigious International Boarding schools. Paul’s MA is in Education specialising in Professional Development in Teaching and Learning which led to him working as a consultant, course designer and presenter for D&TA alongside his industry and teaching roles…

Read more about Paul

By booking your place on this online course you are committing to purchase by either credit/debit card, BACS or cheque. Once payment has been received, you will receive the link to the live online Zoom course.

Bookings for this course can be made right up until the date of the session, however, please be aware that late bookings may not be processed in time. We endeavour to process bookings promptly

Please read our  terms and conditions and our cancellation policy.

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