DT, Reception

Being Creative - Responding to Experiences, Expressing and Communicating Ideas

  • Make comparisons and create new connections.
  • Talk about personal intentions, describing what they were trying to do.
  • Respond to comments and questions, entering into dialogue about their creations.
  • Express and communicate their ideas, thoughts and feelings by using a widening range of materials, suitable tools, imaginative and role-play, movement, designing and making, and a variety of songs and musical instruments.
  • Respond in a variety of ways to what they see, hear, smell, touch and feel.

Exploring Media and Materials

  • Explore what happens when they mix colours.
  • Understand that different media can be combined to create new effects.
  • Choose particular colours to use for a purpose.
  • Use ideas involving fitting, overlapping, in, out, enclosure, grids and sun-like shapes.
  • Work creatively on a large or small scale.
  • Create constructions, collages, painting and drawings.
  • Explore colour, texture, shape, form and space in two or three dimensions.
  • Experiment to create different textures.

Topic Overview

Term 1

  • Design and make sandwiches
  • Uses equipment showing a range of basic skills
  • Understand the importance of healthy eating

Term2

  • Design and make a hat
  • Can observe, select and manipulate objects and materials
  • Asks questions about why things happen and how things work

Term3

  • Design and make a woven collage
  • Can observe, select and manipulate objects and materials
  • Asks questions about why things happen and how things work