Our design and technology curriculum

Introduction

We’ve worked closely with curriculum partners, subject experts and teachers on our interactive design and technology (D&T) curriculum plan. You can also download the plan to use offline to help with your planning.

Our curriculum partner for D&T is:

• primary and secondary: Design & Technology Association.

Curriculum explainer

We've added a curriculum explainer to our D&T curriculum to help you understand our thinking when we were making them with our curriculum partner.

For D&T this will help you understand:

• our overarching curriculum approach and the subject principles we used
• how our curriculum reflects the aims and purpose of the national curriculum
• information on delivering it in your school
• how we use threads to provide curriculum coherence.

When will all the resources be available?

We're releasing the new resources on a rolling basis, as soon as they're ready. By autumn 2025, you'll have access to everything we're releasing for D&T.

Our new units and lessons will all have a ‘New’ label beside them. 

You can see what lessons we'll cover in each unit by clicking into the unit information on the unit sequence page. 

• D&T KS1 and 2 unit sequences
• D&T KS3 and 4 unit sequences