At Marfleet we want to ensure all learners, receive the knowledge and cultural capital they need to succeed in life. It provides for our wonderful children broader development, enabling them to develop and discover their interests and talents. We want our children to leave us well rounded, respectable and ready for the world
Our curriculum is centred around our BEST principles:
Believing all children can, Engagement through excellence, Skills for life and Trailblazing thinkers
Our Vision: Inspiring the Innovators of Tomorrow
At Marfleet Primary Academy, we believe Design and Technology (DT) is more than just making; it is an opportunity to solve real-world problems. Our curriculum is designed to be inspiring, purposeful, and practical, empowering children to move from being consumers of technology to becoming creators. By intertwining DT with our termly topics, we ensure that every project is grounded in a meaningful context, making learning relevant to our pupils’ lives and their future careers.
The Marfleet Design Journey
To ensure a high-impact “Deep Dive” approach, our DT curriculum follows a rigorous four-stage sequence that builds both substantive knowledge (technical skills) and disciplinary knowledge (design thinking):
Investigate: Children study the work of significant designers and engineers, building cultural capital and understanding how design has shaped the world.
Practise: Before the final build, pupils isolate and master specific skills—whether it’s precise measurement in Maths, understanding circuits in Science, or coding in Computing.
Create: Using their own unique design criteria, children bring their ideas to life. We encourage creativity and autonomy, giving pupils the agency to make their own design choices.
Evaluate: Reflection is at the heart of our curriculum. We teach our children that “failure” is simply the first step of iteration. Pupils analyze their work, reflect on their mistakes, and develop the resilience to try again.
A Curriculum Without Borders
Our DT projects are the “glue” that connects our curriculum. Whether it is applying scientific knowledge of forces to a moving mechanism or using mathematical accuracy to scale a prototype, children see how their learning fits together.
We aim to equip every child at Marfleet with the technical expertise, confidence, and adaptability required to thrive in a modern workforce. We aren’t just teaching children to use tools; we are teaching them to engineer the future.
