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Design and Technology at Harrowbarrow School
Please find our intent, implementation and impact statement for Design and Technology here.
You can also view our skills progression in Design and Technology here. (Please note that this is an evolving document and further skills progression in food technology is underway)
Alongside the skills pupils need to learn in DT, we plan their knowledge progression through our DT projects. This plan is a working document and subject to regular change. For some projects, children use knowledge organisers as a reference tool for key aspects of their learning.
Last term we embarked on a momentous (and very exciting!) project in textiles. Please see the below images and newspaper article from the Cornish and Devon Post to find out more. We are so proud of this project.
“For one local school, 2022 marks their 150th anniversary and to commemorate the occasion they have been holding a number of celebratory events and projects.
Established in 1872, Harrowbarrow School has been teaching children from the local area since the Victorian period. To celebrate this, in July, the school held a Victorian day in which, staff and students dressed in Victorian costume, learning about the early days of the school and visited All Saints Church – the school’s original home – to re-enact the very first day in the life of the school, complete with readings from the school log and punishments book, writing on slates with chalk and role-play canings.
As well as history lessons, students of the school have been working to create a commemorative tapestry, Tom Ottewell-Taylor, who coordinated the project said: “Throughout the summer term, a team of volunteers worked with children to produce a commemorative tapestry. This team of volunteers donated hours of their time every week to ensure every child in the school got the opportunity to design and sew their own panel,” he said.
“We would like to thank the following volunteer sewers; Colleen Metters, Leanne Francis, Liz Reece, Stacey Vinson and Sue Pell. An extra thanks goes to Hilary Walker for preparing the panels and Rachel Lane for sewing them all together.
“We are also grateful to the Albaston Fete Committee who funded this project. We are very proud of the finished result and it is testament to the hard work of all the children and adults involved.”
As well as these events and projects, Harrowbarrow also hope to undertake a bigger project. To further celebrate their 150th anniversary, this autumn the school will be working with families to create a commemorative wellbeing garden for the school community to use.”
Harrowbarrow School mark 150 years of teaching | thepost.uk.com
Construction
Our stock of materials and tools has recently been replenished in preparation for exciting construction projects taking place. As part of theri professional development, teachers had fun exploring new resources whilst making wooden robots with moving parts (see below). Children in Class 2 recently made vehicles with fairy characters in forest school. Class 3 made transport with moving parts and Class 4 made wooden bridges (see below) after testing art straw prototypes to destruction.
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