Design Technology - Cereal Snack Bar (Lower Key Stage 2)

This unit of work forms part of the PrimaryDT scheme of work that features over 60 units of work designed to deliver outstanding outcomes for primary school children in design technology.
This unit of work has been revised and updated for 2026 and is based on delivering six sessions of design technology that are guided by high quality presentation slides accompanied by all the resources that are needed to deliver the lessons, including a knowledge organiser.

Comprehensive medium-term planning that includes
• Unit overview and sequence of learning
• Prior learning needed and links to other curriculum areas
• Learning statements (from our curriculum pathway document)
• List of resources and background information to support teaching and learning
• Key vocabulary for the unit of work
• Teaching activities (investigative and focus tasks)
• Teaching activities (designing and making)
• Advice for challenge and support strategies
• Assessment indicators that children are keeping up with the curriculum

Accompanying this revised unit is further information about the scheme of work and the progression chart and vocabulary list used when creating the scheme of work.

Cereal Snack Bar is a Design Technology unit of work aimed primarily at children aged 7-9. The unit focuses on children designing and making healthy cereal bars and also understanding the importance of eating breakfast regularly.
Design Brief: Design and Make a Healthy Cereal Snack Bar

Sequence of Learning for Teachers
In this unt of work, children create their own recipe, branding, and packaging for a healthy cereal bar snack. Children have the opportunity to investigate and taste test existing cereal bar products and know how they are packaged and labelled. Having learnt about existing cereal bars and the origins of some of their ingredients, children use the Eatwell Guide to design and make a healthy cereal bar. Key learning as part of this unit of work is learning about breakfast and the importance of eating breakfast daily.

This knowledge, skills and understanding is delivered through the following six sessions:

1. Investigate 1 – All About Breakfast
2. Investigate 2 - Taste Test Cereal Bars
3. Focus Task 1 - Making a Cereal Bar & Investigate 3 – Investigating Cereal Bars
4. Design & Make - Designing the Cereal Bar
5. Design & Make - Making the Cereal Bar
6. Evaluation- Evaluating and advertising the Cereal Bar

Some activities / sessions can be re-arranged or delivered in different ways in the learning sequence to allow for whole-class teaching and/or small adult-led sessions to take place at the same time.