Design and Technology Association

Designing an Exceptional Primary D&T Curriculum - Half Day November

Date and Time

Start Date: 25th November 2025

Time: 09:30 - 13:30

Member Price: £125.00

Your Price: £149.00

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Details

This online 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?

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

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

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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