Year 9
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. For detailed information about the specific knowledge and skills taught in each unit, please visit our Knowledge and Skills page.
| Half Term | Unit(s) of Work | Key Assessments |
| Autumn 1 | DT - Passive Speaker - Health and safety in the workshop, manmade boards, jigs/template/tolerances, surface finishes | Practical outcome |
| Autumn 2 | Material properties | |
| Batch production | ||
| Evaluation of skills | ||
| Spring 1 |
Food Technology - Health and Safety, and hygiene, role of a chef de partie, safety cooking with meats, nutritional needs through life, allergies and intolerances, factors effecting chouces, catering provisions. Popcorn chicken, carrot cake, Cornish pasties, spaghetti bolognese and beef burger. |
Deboning chicken thigh |
| Crimping and making pastry | ||
| Evaluation | ||
| Spring 2 | Consumers requirements | |
| Summer 1 | Construction - Team task - wind turbines and solar panels to power an electric circuit, renewable energy, residential, industrial and community buildings, card modelling, investigating floor plans, evaluations, sections and visualisations. | Renewable energy |
| Building types and planning | ||
| Summer 2 | Defining sustainability | |
| Creating a drawing on a title sheet |









