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Our design and technology curriculum

Find out more about our design and technology curriculum

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✅Preparing for the revised national curriculum

We're updating our teaching resources and curriculum plans and sharing guidance to help schools prepare confidently and reduce workload ahead of the revised curriculum in September 2028, and the updated GCSEs beyond.

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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:

Find out more about how to use our interactive curriculum plans and adapt them for your school in our help article: A guide to our curriculum plans.

Unit sequence

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You can view our curriculum sequence using the unit sequence tab. It will display the units available for each year group, how many lessons are available in a unit and a recommended order.

All units have a description of 'why this, why now' and 'prior knowledge requirements' to help you consider the sequence of your current planning.

You can look at how threads develop across an entire phase or filter the view to see a single year group.

Curriculum explainer

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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.

Download

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Download the curriculum plan to help you see all the content in one place, including the explainer, the units and the lessons.

Are all the cooking and nutrition resources available?

All of our lesson planning and teaching resources for primary and secondary design and technology are available on our website. 

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

New label

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