🛠️ Design & Technology at Cottesbrooke

In Design and Technology, children learn how to solve problems creatively, work practically, and make things with purpose.

From Early Years to Year 2, children explore how everyday items are designed and made, and develop the skills to plan, build and evaluate their own creations.

🔧 What We Aim to Do

Through D&T, children at Cottesbrooke:

• Learn about different materials, components and structures

• Build confidence using tools, fixings and joining techniques

• Follow the full design–make–evaluate process

• Work on practical problem-solving tasks

• Experience a real sense of achievement when their ideas take shape

• Learn about safety and risk in a hands-on, age-appropriate way

• Use D&T to express their imagination and originality

🪵 What It Looks Like

Children might be:

• Designing and building a house for a teddy

• Making a windmill, a moving vehicle or a model playground

• Cooking and tasting simple recipes

• Exploring how to join or strengthen materials in different ways

• Testing their ideas to see what works — and what could be even better!

We provide plenty of practical, engaging opportunities for children to explore design in a way that connects with real life and sparks curiosity.

🎨 Connecting Art, Design & Creativity

At Cottesbrooke, Art and Design and Design & Technology are closely linked — both help children to explore their ideas, develop practical skills and express themselves in creative, meaningful ways.

You can find out more about how we nurture creative thinking through our Art & Design curriculum.