Design Technology - Eatwell Pizza (Upper 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.

In this unit of work, children apply their knowledge and understanding about healthy eating to design and make a pizza based on the key messages from the Eatwell Guide for healthy eating. Children begin by discussing the different ways that we eat food at home and outside the home. They conduct market research into their favourite pizzas and brainstorm what makes a good pizza. It is important that in lesson 2 they create a Margherita pizza by making bread dough and then adding tomato sauce and grated cheese, this is the basic recipe for all pizzas to which different toppings are then added (This is an example of adapting a recipe to create a new food product). In learning how to make a margherita pizza they acquire the essential skills and knowledge needed to make a pizza and this is essential when they come to designing and making their own pizza. They consolidate their understanding of the different food groups on the Eatwell Guide to healthy eating and use this knowledge to design a pizza that promotes healthy eating. They learn about pizza packaging and the invention of the pizza delivery bag by Ingrid Kosar. Having designed and made their Eatwell Pizza they become entrepreneurs and set up their own small business learning about business basics, marketing and budgeting.

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

1. Investigate Task 1 – All About Pizza
2. Investigate Task 2 – What Makes a Good Pizza?
3. Focus Task 1 – Let’s Make Pizza, Investigate Task 3: Investigating Pizza & Investigate Task 4: Packaging Pizza
4. Design and Make - Designing Pizza
5. Design and Make - Making Pizza
6. Evaluation Session – Pizza Entrepreneur