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This curriculum map provides an overview of the design technology journey students will experience throughout the academic year. It outlines the sequence of design processes, material studies, and practical projects alongside key assessment points designed to monitor and support student progress. The curriculum is carefully sequenced to build knowledge progressively, with each unit providing the foundation for future learning, ensuring all students develop technical understanding, creative design skills, and practical making abilities appropriate to their age and stage.
| Half Term | Unit(s) of Work | Key Assessments |
| Autumn 1 | NEA – AO1 Students explore the design context and research the topic and target market to develop an individual design brief and specification | Mock Exam - Past Paper |
| Autumn 2 | NEA – AO2 Students generate ideas through sketching and modelling and develop their design proposals through the use of iterative design to produce a final design. Working drawings and a manufacturing specification. | NEA Marking - A01 and A02 |
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| Spring 1 | NEA –A02 Students realise their proposals by producing design iterations using modelling materials. | Mock Exam - Past Paper |
| Spring 2 | AO3 Students test and evaluate their designs and produce proposals on how their designs could be manufactured commercially | NEA marking - A03 |
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