The Big Staff Meeting Series 2025-26 - Design and Technology
- How do children ‘get better at’ evaluating and designing products?
Join us for an engaging staff meeting focused on teaching Design and Technology effectively. We will delve into how children can be supported to improve their skills critiquing existing products, often before designing and evaluating their own products. These areas of critiquing, designing and evaluating in D&T are critical to develop alongside the other strands for example structures and mechanisms, cooking and nutrition.
This session will focus on using design criteria to guide the creation of products and then evaluating these products against the set criteria. Staff will gain insights and strategies to help pupils become more proficient and confident designers.
Learning outcomes
- Explore what the National curriculum says about critiquing, designing and evaluating products
- Gain a deeper understanding of how to effectively use design criteria to guide pupils in designing and creating products
- Consider how to help pupils evaluate their products against the design criteria, fostering critical thinking and self-assessment
The Big Staff Meeting Series has two sessions each half term.
All sessions are live, online from 3:45pm - 5pm on a Tuesday. There will also be a recording made available shortly after each session for all schools booked on. Sessions can all be booked individually, or through one of the pre-set groups of sessions, or as all 12 sessions.
Cost per school, for all 3 SEND focused sessions: £339.15
Cost per school, for all 6 Foundation subjects and science sessions (includes science, history, computing, D&T and geography): £558.60
Cost per school, for all 12 session: £1117.20
- Event Type: Training: Webinar
