Designing an Exceptional Primary D&T Curriculum December

Date and Time

Start Date: 10th December 2025

Time: 09:30 - 16:30

Member Price: £199.00

Your Price: £270.00

Details

This full-day, in-person course 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.

Who Should Attend?

• 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, then engage in hands-on examples and develop practical skills.

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.

What to Bring:

• We recommend bringing a laptop or portable device for the session

We’re thrilled to share that this course includes an exclusive tour of Lisi Aerospace Rugby. Join us for a guided factory tour at LISI Aerospace and see first-hand how innovation and precision come together to shape the future of aerospace engineering. From advanced technology to world-class manufacturing, it’s a unique opportunity to explore behind the scenes of a global industry leader. A brilliant bonus to your day’s training! 

Meet your Trainer

Lol Conway – Curriculum Consultant 

Lol was a Design and Technology teacher for 14 years teaching students from years 7 to 13 in comprehensive secondary schools. She has been a Head of Department for 7 of those years and was a College/Pastoral Leader for 2. During her time as Head of Department she took a department that was struggling to a thriving and outstanding faculty within the school.

Lol has also worked as a Primary Teacher setting up and delivering EYFS, KS1 and KS2 Design and Technology in her school and developing a Curriculum Pathway for the subject so as to create an effective through Curriculum into KS3 and beyond. 

Read more about Lol

Before booking onto this course please read our  terms and conditions and our cancellation policy.

Address

Lisi Aerospace, 38 Butlers Leap
Rugby
Warwickshire
CV21 3RQ

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