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08/03/24

choir representing at a national choral competition last weekend - WOW 🔥🙌🏾👏🏼🫶🏿⚡️! Three part harmony, syncopated body percussion and in Portuguese 🇵🇹. We are so proud of how hard you worked and can’t wait to hear what you do next! pic.twitter.com/6FXMoePk7D

08/03/24

choir representing at a national choral competition last weekend - WOW 🔥🙌🏾👏🏼🫶🏿⚡️! Three part harmony, syncopated body percussion and in Portuguese 🇵🇹. We are so proud of how hard you worked and can’t wait to hear what you do next! pic.twitter.com/6FXMoePk7D

08/03/24

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08/03/24

A fantastic International Women’s Day at Chobham today! Celebrating all women and helping to 💜💜 pic.twitter.com/8dffQkuDVd

04/03/24

Our penultimate choir is from the Olympic Park in London: Harris Academy Chobham Junior Choir. Great percussion accompaniment! pic.twitter.com/tBKi9iedjL

03/03/24

We are sooooo proud of our choir who are competing on Manchester today! We send all the luck and positivity! https://t.co/v0ZDGUNhkC

03/03/24

Our penultimate choir is from the Olympic Park in London: Harris Academy Chobham Junior Choir. Great percussion accompaniment! pic.twitter.com/tBKi9iedjL

29/02/24

Year 2’s first ever visit to the primary school library for their first Accelerated Reader session! These readers are super excited to get their hands on the big books! pic.twitter.com/nY65QV5uaG

29/02/24

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29/02/24

Our YUCAN group were lucky enough to go to Shrek’s Adventure and then for a trip on the London Eye this week! So much fun for these amazing pupils! pic.twitter.com/wxQYqDyqfZ

29/02/24

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29/02/24

Year 4 were happy historians at The British Museum last week learning all about things from the past. pic.twitter.com/SFC2KNy8zu

29/02/24

Get along to Chess Club on Thursdays at the Lighthouse and Gardens! With an amazing teacher every week for only £6 per child! pic.twitter.com/mqFwkiRE3A

28/02/24

Important team talks and tactics before the boys and girls’ football matches today! Well done to our boys for winning and reaching the final!! pic.twitter.com/BhrFZiFvIP

15/02/24

Please sign up to support us on to increase our chances of winning a massive £1,000 donation! Every new person who joins counts as an extra entry - but hurry, you've only got until the end of the week. It's completely free to help: https://t.co/51mhDqf8Zc

15/02/24

Thank you to all the amazing stalls who came and participated in our Cultural Celebration Day last week! It was an amazing event with such a range of things on offer from many different cultures! 🥳🥳🥳#culturalcelebration pic.twitter.com/nU1YOtIh18

15/02/24

A huge thank you to ! The girls absolutely love their new kits from their sponsor! It really is amazing to see them wearing them with pride! 🤩🤩 https://t.co/x0ukWvZgrX

22/12/23

Thank you to everyone who donated to our fundraiser! Our Christmas Elves (the amazing year 10 prefects) packed 20 bags of gifts for the children staying there over Christmas and a little something for the staff too 🎁 🌲 pic.twitter.com/Vs94QEtVtZ

22/12/23

Thank you to everyone who donated to our fundraiser! Our Christmas Elves (the amazing year 10 prefects) packed 20 bags of gifts for the children staying there over Christmas and a little something for the staff too 🎁 🌲 pic.twitter.com/Vs94QEtVtZ

07/12/23

How are funds making a difference?At , they invested in music. They introduced 180 students to the joys of playing the recorder or violin, purchased instruments and music recording equipment, improving their provision one note at a time✨🎶🎻 pic.twitter.com/vvQeP3sioM

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Intent: Why do we teach what we teach? 
Design and Technology at Harris Academy Chobham  is a highly practical and creative subject, which equips children with a range of crucial life skills that they need for the future. Learning about how to design, build, create evaluate and problem-solve are vital, and encompass some of the core skills that we want children to have when they leave our academy. Design and Technology is all about solving real problems, and as such, is taught in the context of lots of different disciplines. Children are encouraged to use their creativity and imagination to re-imagine products considering their own and others’ needs, wants and values. Through the evaluation of past and present design and technology, they develop a critical understanding of its impact on daily life and how it is has helped shape the world we now live in.  

At Harris Academy Chobham, we aim to provide our children with the chance to develop key skills needed to participate and contribute successfully to an increasingly technological world: creativity, the practical expertise needed to perform everyday tasks, the understanding and skills in order to design and make high-quality prototypes and products for a wide range of users, the ability to critique, evaluate and test their ideas and the work of others, the understanding of the principles of nutrition and the ability to cook safely. 

Implementation: How do we teach what we teach?

Design and Technology in the Early Years Foundation Stage  
The teaching of design and technology at Harris Academy Chobham begins with and builds on the Early Learning Goals for Technology and Exploring and using Media within the EYFS. We provide a range of experiences that encourage exploration, observation, problem solving, critical thinking and discussion within the five key areas of design and technology. These activities, indoors and outdoors, attract pupils’ interest and curiosity.  

Design and Technology in Key Stages 1 and 2 
To ensure our teachers provide the best opportunities for the delivery of the design and technology curriculum, the content of the subject has been carefully sequenced. Throughout key stage 1 and 2, teachers will make use of the progression grid, which outlines the expectation of what should be taught in each year group. By following this progression, we ensure that knowledge is building upon what the children have remembered from what they have previously been taught. 

In KS1:  

  • design products based on design criteria.  

  • communicate their ideas through talking and drawing. 

  • select appropriate materials and equipment to perform practical tasks.  

  • explore and evaluate existing products and their ideas against design criteria.  

  • test and improve existing structures.  

  • understand where food comes from and the principles of a healthy diet 

In KS2:  

  • research and develop design criteria to design purposeful, functional, appealing products that are fit for purpose and are aimed at particular individuals or groups.  

  • model and communicate ideas through discussion, annotated sketches, exploded diagrams, prototypes, pattern pieces and computer-aided design. 

  • select from and use a wide range of tools, materials or ingredients and equipment to perform practical tasks accurately. 

  • investigate and analyse a range of existing products.  

  • evaluate their ideas and products against their own design criteria and consider the views of others to improve their work.  

  • apply their understanding to test and improve more complex existing structures  

  • understand and use mechanical or electrical systems.  

  • apply their understanding of computing to program, monitor and control their products.  

  • prepare and cook dishes using a range of cooking techniques  

  • understand seasonality of ingredients. 

The children are given the opportunity to gain first-hand experience through working individually, in small groups or on larger scale pieces of work with the five key areas of design and technology throughout the year. 

Impact – how do we know what pupils have learnt and how well they have learnt it?
At Harris Academy Chobham, evidence of the learning in design and technology is dependent on the project outcome, year group and the skills and knowledge being developed. Classes will document their learning in their DT folders: this could be in the form of photographs of practical activities, prototypes/ models, sketches, research and evaluation of outcomes or critique of work completed by themselves, a peer or a professional. 

Learning walks, learning reviews, reflective practice strategies, and pupil voice interviews enable us to measure the impact of the teaching and how embedded the subject truly is.

It will be evident from plans, lesson observation and pupil-voice, that teachers are doing the following: 

  • providing children with knowledge and skills in design and technology;  

  • teaching skills and processes with a range of materials;  

  • offering chances for children to explore the potential of different materials and to make independent discoveries; allowing children to use their own ideas and experiences to create work that is valued; 

  • allowing children time to create with opportunities to problem solve and review and refine their work;  

  • allowing chances for children to work alone and with others;  

  • providing an environment where children feel safe taking risks and are not intimidated by ‘getting it wrong’ and empowering children to pursue creative endeavours. 

Our teachers rely on a range of assessment tools to provide data on the knowledge and skills pupils have, their progress and their development points. This includes: 

  • Assessment for learning through our ‘Knowing More and Remembering More’ starter sessions 

  • Challenge tasks 

  • Enquiry tasks 

  • Standards of learning in books and products 

  • Quizzing, multiple choice and end of unit questions