Design & Technology at Holtspur School equips children with the creativity, technical knowledge, and practical skills needed to become confident problem‑solvers in an ever‑changing world. We provide a balanced curriculum that builds practical skills, creativity, resilience, and critical thinking, enabling pupils to understand how products are designed and made and to develop the skills to create their own. A key focus is food technology: by growing our own fruit, herbs, and vegetables, children learn where food comes from, how to use fresh ingredients, and how to make healthy choices. Through the Kapow Primary scheme of work, pupils follow a carefully sequenced curriculum that develops competence in designing, making, and evaluating products with real purpose. They plant, care for, and harvest produce to understand seasonality and sustainability, while teachers model key skills, introduce important vocabulary, and make purposeful links with science, maths, and computing. By the time they leave Holtspur School, pupils can design, make, and evaluate products with growing independence and have a secure understanding of materials, mechanisms, structures and electrical systems. In addition, our food‑growing gives our children pride in cooking with ingredients they have nurtured themselves.