Design Technology - Teddy Mascot (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.

Design Brief: Design and Make a Waistcoat for a Teddy Mascot

Overview: In this unit of work children become textiles designers and design a colourful waistcoat for a mascot for a school team or organisation. They learn about mascots and the history of the waistcoat. In designing and making a waistcoat, they learn how designers use mood boards to develop their ideas, create a pattern template for the waistcoat, and then cut and assemble fabric pieces to create the waistcoat. They add buttons to the waistcoat before applying a range of decorative techniques to complete their mascot waistcoat.

Sessions:

1. Investigate 1 – What is a Mascot? What is a Waistcoat?
2. Focus Task 1 - Designers and Mood Boards.
3. Focus Task 2 – Making a Waistcoat.
4. Design and Make – Mascot Designer
5. Design and Make – Decorating the Mascot Waistcoat
6. Evaluation – (Display stand, skills builders activity and world of work considerations)

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.